Session 129. Absorptions and The Intergalactic Medium

Oral, Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific 2/3

129.01 The Spatial Cross-Correlation of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems and Galaxies at z~3

J. Cooke, A. M. Wolfe (CASS / University of California, San Diego), E. Gawiser (Yale University / Universidad de Chile), J .X. Prochaska (UCO Lick / University of California, Santa Cruz)

129.02D Spectroscopic signatures of star formation in Damped Ly\alpha absorbers

G. Shaw (Univerity of Kentucky), G. J. Ferland (University of Kentucky), R. Srianand (IUCAA)

129.03 A Survey of Analogs of Weak MgII Absorbers in the Present

J. C. Charlton, A. Narayanan, R. Lynch (Penn State), J. R. Masiero (U. Hawaii)

129.04 Galaxy Properties and the Kinematics of Gaseous Halos

C. W. Churchill, G. G. Kacprzak (NMSU), C. C. Steidel (Caltech)

129.05 Adaptive Optics Imaging of Low-redshift Quasar Absorbers with Gemini-North

M. Chun (University of Hawaii), S. Gharanfoli, V. Kulkarni (University of South Carolina), M. Takamiya (University of Hawaii - Hilo)

129.06 Mean amount of Absorption from the Intergalactic Medium

D. Tytler, D. Kirkman, J. M. O'Meara, N. Suzuki, A. Orin, D. Lubin, P. Paschos, T. Jena, W-C Lin, M. Norman (UCSD), A. Meiksin (U of Edinburgh)

129.07 Parsing the WHIM

L. A. Phillips (Caltech)