Session 69. Cosmology: Population III, Distant SNe, and Dark Energy

Poster, Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

69.01 What Will It Take to Find the First Stars?

J. Tumlinson (University of Chicago)

69.02 A High Primordial Lithium Abundance in Metal-Poor Stars

J. Melendez (Caltech)

69.03 Cosmological Constraints from the First Supernova Discovered above Redshift of One.

V. Fadeyev, G. Aldering (LBNL), R. Amanullah (Stockholm), P. Astier (LPNHE Paris), M. S. Burns (Colorado Col.), A. Conley (LBNL), R. Ellis (Caltech), S. Fabbro (Lisbon), G. Folatelli (Stockholm), A. S. Fruchter (STScI), G. Garavini (Stockholm), R. Gibbons (Vanderbilt), G. Goldhaber (LBNL), A. Goobar (Stockholm), D. E. Groom (LBNL), I. Hook (Oxford), D. A. Howell (Toronto), A. G. Kim (LBNL), R. A. Knop (Vanderbilt), M. Kowalski (LBNL), C. Lidman (ESO), J. Mendez (ING), S. Nobili (Stockholm), P. E. Nugent (LBNL), R. Pain (LPNHE Paris), N. Panagia (STScI), S. Perlmutter (LBNL), J. Raux (LPNHE Paris), P. Ruiz-Lapuente (Barcelona), G. Sainton (LPNHE Paris), B. E. Schaefer (LSU), E. Smith (Vanderbilt), A. L. Spadafora (LBNL), V. Stanishev (Stockholm), R. C. Thomas (LBNL), N. A. Walton (IoA Cambridge), L. Wang, W. M. Wood-Vasey (LBNL), Supernova Cosmology Project Collaboration

69.04 Supernovae at z>1.2 Discovered with the ACS on HST

R. A. Gibbons, R. A. Knop (Vanderbilt University), N. Kuznetsova (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Supernova Cosmology Project Collaboration

69.05 Cepheid Calibrations from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Luminosity of Two Modern Type Ia Supernovae and a Re-determination of the Hubble Constant

A. G. Riess (STScI), W. Li (UC Berkeley), P. B. Stetson (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria), A. V. Filippenko, S. Jha (UC Berkeley), R. P. Kirshner (Harvard), P. M. Garnavich (Notre Dame), R. Chornock (UC Berkeley), P. Challis (Harvard)

69.06 Calibrating SN Type Ia in Early-Type Galaxies using the Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function

G. Jacoby (WIYN), M. Phillips (LCO), J. Feldmeier (NOAO)

69.07 The Hubble Constant Derived from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

A.M. Stilp (University of Wisconsin-Madison/NRAO), S.T. Myers (NRAO)

69.08 Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

D.J. Eisenstein, I. Zehavi (Univ. of Arizona), R. Nichol (Portsmouth Univ.), D.W. Hogg, M. Blanton (New York Univ.), H. Seo (Univ. of Arizona), Z. Zheng (Institute for Advanced Study), M. Tegmark (Univ. of Pennsylvania/MIT)

69.09 The First Photometry from the ESSENCE Project

K. Krisciunas, P. Garnavich (NDU), P. Challis, M. Hicken, R. P. Kirshner, C. Stubbs (CfA), J. L. Prieto (OSU), A. G. Riess (STScI), B. Barris, J. L. Tonry (IfA/UH), C. Aguilera, A. Rest, R. C. Smith, N. B. Suntzeff (CTIO), A. C. Becker, R. Covarrubias, A. Miceli, G. Miknaitis (UW), S. Blondin, B. Leibundgut, J. Spyromilio (ESO), R. Chornock, A. V. Filippenko, S. Jha, W. D. Li (UCB), A. Clocchiatti (PUC), T. Matheson (NOAO), M. E. Salvo, B. P. Schmidt (ANU), J. Sollerman (Stockholm Obs.)

69.10 Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Two Years

T. Matheson (NOAO), ESSENCE Team

69.11 Discrete Source Contribution to the CIRB

L. R. Levenson, E. L. Wright (UCLA)

69.12 CMB Polarization Data Analysis for the Cosmic Background Imager

S.T. Myers (NRAO), CBI Collaboration

69.13 Latest CMB results from the Very Small Array, out to l=1500.

C. Dickinson (Caltech / JBO), Jodrell Bank Observatory (University of Manchester, UK) Team, Cavendish Astrophysics (Cambridge University, UK) Team, IAC (Tenerife) Team

69.14 Can cosmic shear tomography bring dark energy parameter constraints to a satisfactory level of precision?

M. Ishak, D. N. Spergel (Princeton University)

69.15 The Science of the Dark Energy Survey

J. Frieman (Fermilab/Chicago), Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

69.16 The Strategy for the Dark Energy Survey

J. Annis (Fermilab), Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

69.17 The Dark Energy Camera

M.D. Gladders (Carnegie Observatories), Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

69.18 Photometric Redshift Simulations for the Dark Energy Survey

H. Lin (Fermilab), C. Cunha, M. Lima, H. Oyaizu, J. Frieman (U. Chicago), A. Collister (Cambridge), O. Lahav (UCL), Dark Energy Survey Collaboration