Session 27. Asymmetries in Type Ia Supernovae

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, May 31, 2005, 102 B

27.01 Moving Beyond the Perfectly Spherical Bastards: A Lopsided View of Type Ia Supernovae

R.P. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

27.02 The Birth, Life, and Death of Flames and Detonations in SNe Ia

J.C. Niemeyer, W. Schmidt, C. Klingenberg, A. Maier, J. Pfannes (University of Würzburg, Germany)

27.03 Scaling Relations and Non-Steady Flame Propagation in Type Ia Supernovae

O. E. B. Messer (University of Chicago)

27.04 Turbulent Flames in SNe Ia

M. Zingale, S. E. Woosley (UCSC), A. S. Almgren, J. B. Bell, M. S. Day, C. A. Rendleman (LBNL)

27.05 Chasing the Flames: The Challenge of Modeling Type Ia Supernovae in 3D

W. Hillebrandt, F. K. Roepke (MPI fuer Astrophysik)

27.06 Asymmetric Type Ia Supernovae from Detonating Failed Deflagrations

T. Plewa (Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, U. Chicago), D. Kasen (JHU), E. F. Brown (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State U.)

27.07 3D Signatures of off-center Delayed-Detonation Models

P. Hoeflich (McDonald Observatory, Austin), D. Baade (ESO, Garching, FRG), R. Fesen (Dartmouth College), C. Gerardy (Imperial College, London, GB), K. Kawabata, A. Khokhlov, K. Maeda, K. Motohara, K. Nomoto (U. of Tokyo, Japan), F. Patat (ESO, Garching, FRG), N, Tominaga (U. of Tokyo, Japan), L. Wang (LBL, Berkeley), J.C. Wheeler (U. of Texas, Austin)

27.08 Probing the Geometry of Type Ia Supernovae with Spectropolarimetry

D. Kasen (Johns Hopkins University)

27.09 Polarimetry diagnostics of supernova explosions

L. Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

27.10 Aspherical outflows in Supernovae

P. A. Mazzali (MPA Garching, INAF-Trieste)

27.11 Pressing Supernovae to z>1; Kinematics and Dark Energy

A. Riess (STScI), PANS Collaboration

27.12 A Decade of Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

B. P. Schmidt (Mt Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National University)