Session 17. Galaxies Including Our Own

Oral, Monday, May 31, 2004, 10:00-11:30am, 710/712

17.01 Electron Acceleration around the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

S. Liu (Dept. of Physics, CSSA, Stanford University), V. Petrosian (Dept. of Phys. and Applied Phys, CSSA, Stanford University), F. Melia (Dept. of Phys. and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)

17.02 Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center with a Thirty Meter Telescope

N. N. Weinberg, M. Milosavljevic (Caltech)

17.03 A Radio Survey of the Galactic Center Region: Detection of Numerous Linear Filaments

F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. Hewitt (Northwestern U.), W. Cotton (NRAO)

17.04 Spectral Evolution of Gamma-Ray Outbursts from Galactic Microquasars

G. L. Case, M. L. Cherry, C. Fannin, J. Rodi (Louisiana State University), J. C. Ling (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), W. A. Wheaton (IPAC, Caltech)

17.05 SpeX 0.8--5.5 \mum spectra of the Arches Cluster Stars

A. Cotera (SETI Institute), J. Simpson (NASA Ames Research Center)

17.06 The Lowest Luminosity Galaxy Yet: Andromeda IX, a New Satellite of M31

D. B. Zucker, A. Y. Kniazev, E. F. Bell, D. Martinez-Delgado, H. W. Rix (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy), E. K. Grebel (University of Basel), C. M. Rockosi (University of Washington), J. A. Holtzman, R. A. M. Walterbos (New Mexico State University)

17.07 Mining the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to trace the M-sigma correlation below 10⁶ solar masses

A. J. Barth (Caltech), J. E. Greene (CfA), L. C. Ho (OCIW)