Session 20. Black Hole Binaries and Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Oral, Thursday, September 9, 2004, 2:00-3:38pm, Queen Anne Ballroom

20.01I Are Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies Intermediate Mass Black Holes?

J. A. Irwin (University of Michigan)

20.02S Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center

J.H. Buckley (Washington University in St. Louis), VERITAS Collaboration

20.03 Relativistic Iron Emission Lines and Multi-Wavelength Variability in a Low L_X State of the Black Hole GX 339-4: A Prominent Role for Jets?

J. M. Miller (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), J. Homan (MIT), D. Steeghs (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. Rupen (NRAO), R. Wijnands (Univ. of Amsterdam), P. Charles (Univ. of Southampton)

20.04 Spectral Index and Quasi-Periodic Oscillation Frequency Correlation in Black Hole (BH) Sources: Observational Evidence of Two Phases and Phase Transition in BHs

L Titarchuk (George Mason University/ Naval Research Laboratory/GSFC), R. Fiorito (University of Maryland and GSFC)

20.05 Super-Keplerian Oscillation Frequencies in Numerical Models of Accretion Disks

S. A. Mao, J. A. Milsom, D. Psaltis (University of Arizona -Department of Physics)

20.06 Coronae and Jet Properties of the Black Hole Candidates Cyg X-1 and GX339-4 Over Many Years and Many Decades in Eddington Flux

M.A. Nowak (MIT), J. Wilms (University of Warwick), K. Pottschmidt (MPE/ISDC), G.G. Pooley (University of Cambridge)