Session 120. Intergalactic Medium and Absorption Line Systems

Poster, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

120.01 Average Extinction Curves and Abundances at 1

D.E. Vanden Berk (PSU), D.G. York (Chicago), P. Khare (Utkal), V.P. Kulkarni (South Carolina), A.P.S. Crotts (Columbia), J.T. Lauroesch (Northwestern), G.T. Richards, C.-W. Yip (JHU), D.P. Schneider (PSU), D. Welty, Y. Alsayyad, N. Shanidze, J. Vanlandingham, J. Tumlinson (Chicago), A. Kumar (NYU), B. Lundgren (Illinois), B. Baugher (UCSB), P.B. Hall (York), E.B. Jenkins (Princeton), B. Menard (IAS), S. Rao, D. Turnshek (Pittsburgh), J. Brinkman (APO), SDSS Collaboration

120.02 Evolution of the Kinematics of Strong MgII Absorbers

A. Mshar, J. Charlton (Penn State), C. Churchill (New Mexico State University), T.S. Kim (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam)

120.03 On the Properties of Two Strong MgII Absorbers Towards Q0454-220

N. Milutinovic, J.C. Charlton (Penn State), C.W. Churchill (NMSU)

120.04 Pondering the Physical Conditions of an Unusual MgII Absorption Line System

T.M. Jones, A. Naryanan, J.C. Charlton (Penn State)

120.05 The Relationship Between OVI WHIM Absorption and Galaxies from Hydrodynamic Simulations

R. Ganguly (University of Wyoming), R. Cen (Princeton University), T. Fang (University of California, Berkeley), K. R. Sembach (The Space Telescope Science Institute)

120.06 Using PCA to Determine Metal-line, HI Column Density Correlations in QSO Absorbers

T. S. Hamilton (Shawnee State Univ.), S. M. Rao, D. A. Turnshek (Univ. of Pittsburgh), D. B. Nestor (Univ. of Florida), A. Quider (Univ. of Pittsburgh), A. Weyant (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)

120.07 The Value of Increased Resolution for Study of Quasar Absorption Line Systems

A. Narayanan, T. Misawa, J. Charlton (Pennsylvania State University)

120.08 The Physical Conditions of "CIII-Only" Absorption Line Systems

B. C. Lacki, J. C. Charlton (Penn State University)

120.09 The Host Nature and Environment of SDSS selected Mg II absorption systems

M. Caler, R. Sheth, B. Jain (University of Pennsylvania)

120.10 WHIM Baryons in the Local Universe

C. W. Danforth, J. M. Shull (U. Colorado)

120.11 Elemental Abundance Measurements of Low Redshift Damped Lyman\alpha Galaxies

J. Meiring, V.P. Kulkarni (University of South Carolina), P. Khare (Utkal University), J. Bechtold, J. Cui (University of Arizona), D.G. York (University of Chicago), J.T. Lauroesch (Northwestern University), O. Nakamura (University of Nottingham), A.P.S Crotts (Columbia University)

120.12 A Search for Emission Lines from a Low-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Galaxy with Keck LRIS

S. Gharanfoli, V. P. Kulkarni (Univ. of South Carolina), M. Chun (Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii), M. Takamiya (Univ. of Hawaii)

120.13 Physical Properties of Weak MgII Absorbers at z ~2

R. S. Lynch, J. C. Charlton (Penn State)