Session 17. Neutron Stars and X-ray Binaries

Poster, Thursday, September 9, 2004, 9:00am-10:00pm, La Nouvelle Orleans Room

17.01 Globular cluster X-ray sources in M31.

S. Trudolyubov (IGPP, University of California, Riverside), W. Priedhorsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17.02 The Distances to Galactic Low-mass X-ray Binaries: Consequences for Black Hole Luminosities and Kicks

P.G. Jonker (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), G. Nelemans (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

17.03 NLTE Analysis of Chandra and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy of CAL 83

T. Lanz (U. Maryland), G. A. Telis, M. Audard, F. Paerels (Columbia U.), I. Hubeny (NOAO)

17.04 X-ray Signatures of Gravitational Radiation from LMXB Neutron Stars

R. Wagoner (Stanford Univ., KIPAC)

17.05 X-Ray Binaries and Super-Star Clusters

J. Sepinsky, V. Kalogera, K. Belczynski (Northwestern University)

17.06 A Boiling Core and a Shocking Jet: Radio Observations of H1743-322

M.P. Rupen, A.J. Mioduszewski, V. Dhawan (NRAO)

17.07 First Infrared Observations of Faint Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre

R. M. Bandyopadhyay, K. M. Blundell, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, Ph. Podsiadlowski (Dept. of Astrophysics, Oxford University), F. E. Bauer (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University), Q. D. Wang (Dept. of Astronomy, U. Massachusetts Amherst), S. Rappaport (MIT Center for Space Research), E. Pfahl (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), W. N. Brandt (Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University)

17.08 Oscillations of the Inner Regions of Viscous Accretion Disks

C.K. Chan, D. Psaltis (Physics Department, U. Arizona)

17.09 Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 4697: Initial Results

G.R. Sivakoff (University of Virginia), P. Côtié, A. Jordán (Rutgers University), C.L. Sarazin (University of Virginia)

17.10 Multiwavelength Observations of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources

P. Kaaret (University of Iowa)

17.11 Sonic-Point and Spin-Resonance Beat-Frequency Model of Kilohertz QPO Pairs

F. K. Lamb (U. Illinois), M. C. Miller (U. Maryland)

17.12 Contraints on the Velocity and Spatial Distribution of Helium-like Ions in the Wind of SMC X-1 from Observations with XMM/RGS

P. S. Wojdowski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), D. A. Liedahl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T. R. Kallman (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

17.13 Photon-Energy Dependence of the Phase of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Black Holes and Neutron Stars and the Implications for Models of Their X-Ray Emission

W. Yu (Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), F. K. Lamb (Center for Theoretical Astrophsycis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17.14 Rapid variability of the arcsec scale X-ray jets of SS 433: evidence for an underlying faster outflow

S. Migliari, R. Fender (University of Amsterdam), K. Blundell (University of Oxford), M. Mendez (SRON), M. van der Klis (University of Amsterdam)

17.15 Surface modes: a viable mechanism for oscillations in the tail of Type I X-ray bursts?

A. L. Watts, T. E. Strohmayer (NASA GSFC)

17.16 Top Resonances in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields Surrounding a Black Hole: A Model for Understanding High Frequency QPOs

O. W. Day Jr. (Dept. of Physics, East Carolina University), D. W. Pravica (Dept. of Mathematics, East Carolina University)

17.17 Identification of Infrared Counterparts to INTEGRAL Sources

F. D'Amico, F. Jablonski, C . V. Rodrigues, D. Cieslinski (INPE, S. J dos Campos, Brazil), G. Hickel (UNIVAP, S. J dos Campos, Brazil), J. Braga (INPE, S. J dos Campos, Brazil), P. Durouchoux, J. Rodriguez, M. Tagger (CEN Saclay, France)

17.18 RXTE and Chandra Study of SS433/W50

A. Moldowan, S. Safi-Harb (University of Manitoba)

17.19 On the Nature of the Accretion Columns in Her X-1

D.A. Leahy (University of Calgary)

17.20 Comparision of Methods of Calculating Pulse Shapes for Rotating Neutron Stars: I. Equatorial Photon Orbits

D.A. Leahy (University of Calgary), C. Cadeau, S. Morsink (University of Alberta)

17.21 Time Dependent Radiation Signatures from Microquasar Jets

S. Gupta, M. Boettcher (Ohio University)

17.22 Discovery of X-ray Absorption Features from the Dipper XB 1916-053

A.N. Parmar (ESA), L. Boirin (SRON), D. Barret (CESR), S. Paltani (Lab d'Astrophysique de Marseille), J. Grindlay (CfA), N. Webb (CESR)

17.23 Superhumps and an extreme mass ratio in the ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30

Z. Wang, D. Chakrabarty (MIT)

17.24 VLBA Astrometry of X-ray Binaries.

V. Dhawan, M. P. Rupen (NRAO Socorro, NM), E. B. Fomalont (NRAO Charlottesville, VA.), A. J. Mioduszewski (NRAO Socorro, NM), J.-F. Lestrade (Observatoire de Paris)

17.25 XMM-Newton observations of Fe absorption line features from low-mass X-ray binaries.

M. Diaz-Trigo, A. Parmar (Astrophysics Missions Division, Research and Scientific Support Dept. of ESA, ESTEC, The Netherlands), L. Boirin (SRON, The Netherlands)

17.26 X-ray Observations of the Galatic Blackhole Candidate XTE J1859+226

K. Yamaoka, M. Uzawa, M. Arai, A. Yoshida (Dept. of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University)

17.27 Modeling of a High/Soft State Flare in Cygnus X-1

J. Finke, M. Boettcher (Ohio University)

17.28 Theoretical Models of Superbursts on Accreting Neutron Stars

R.L. Cooper, R. Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA)

17.29 A Multiwavelength Search for the Donor in Cir X-1

W.I. Clarkson (The Open University), J.S. Clark (University College London), P.A. Charles, M.J. Coe (Southampton University), N Onyett (Sussex University)