Session 32. The Galactic Center

Oral, Monday, January 10, 2005, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 2/3

32.01 TeV Emission from the Black-Hole Plerion at the Galactic Center

C.D. Dermer, A. Atoyan (NRL)

32.02 Microlensing optical depth towards the Galactic Bulge using bright sources from OGLE-II

T. Sumi (Princeton), P. Wozniak (LANL), A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, K. Zebrun, O. Szewczyk, L Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University)

32.03D A New View of the Galactic Center: Low Radio Frequency Synthesis Imaging.

M. Nord (Naval Research Laboratory)

32.04 Interferometric detection of the polarization of Sgr A* at 340 GHz

D. P. Marrone, R. Rao, J. M. Moran (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

32.05 Submillimeter Monitoring of Sgr A* with SHARC II/CSO

C. Darren Dowell (CalTech/JPL), L. Kirby (Univ. of Chicago), G. Novak, F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern Univ.)

32.06 An Over-Abundance of Transient X-ray Sources Near the Galactic Center

M. Muno, M. Morris (UCLA), F. Baganoff (MIT)

32.07 Evidence for a Weak Global Galactic Center Magnetic Field from the Detection of Low Frequency Diffuse Nonthermal Radio Emission

T.N. LaRosa (Kennesaw State Univ.), C.L. Brogan (Inst. for Astronomy), S.N. Shore (Univ. of Pisa), T.J.W. Lazio, N.E. Kassim, M.E. Nord (Naval Research Lab.)

32.08 A Deep Infrared Survey of the Galactic Center

S. Laycock, J. E. Grindlay (CfA), E Persson (Carnegie), M. van den Berg, P Zhao, J. S. Hong (CfA), ChaMPlane Collaboration