Session 135. A New Look at Andromeda

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

135.01 Discovery of an Extended Metal-Poor Stellar Halo in the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

P. Guhathakurta, K. M. Gilbert, J. S. Kalirai (UCO/Lick Obs, UCSC), J. C. Ostheimer, S. R. Majewski, R. J. Patterson (UVa), R. M. Rich, D. B. Reitzel (UCLA), M. C. Cooper (UC Berkeley)

135.02 Dynamics and Metallicities of Red Giant Stars in the Metal-Rich Spheroid of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

K. M. Gilbert (UCSC), R. M. Rich, D. B. Reitzel (UCLA), J. S. Kalirai, P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), M. C. Cooper (UC Berkeley), S. R. Majewski (UVa)

135.03 Unveiling the Boxy Bulge and Bar of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

R.L. Beaton (University of Virginia), E. Athanassoula (Observatoire de Marseille), S.R. Majewski (University of Virginia), P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory), M.F. Skrutskie, R.J. Patterson (University of Virginia), M. Bureau (Columbia University)

135.04 Dynamical Constraints on the Disk and Spheroid of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy from Keck Spectroscopy

D. B. Reitzel (UCLA), J. S. Kalirai, P. Guhathakurta (UCSC), R. M. Rich (UCLA), K. M. Gilbert (UCSC), S. R. Majewski, J. C. Ostheimer (UVa), M. C. Cooper (UCB), R. J. Patterson (UVa)

135.05 The Violent History of Andromeda

T.M. Brown, E. Smith (STScI), P. Guhathakurta (UCO/Lick), R.M. Rich (UCLA), H.C. Ferguson (STScI), A. Renzini (Osservatorio Astronomico), A.V. Sweigart, R.A. Kimble (NASA/GSFC)

135.06 Chemical Abundance Patterns in Red Giant Branch Stars in the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

C. Luine, J. S. Kalirai, K. M. Gilbert, P. Guhathakurta, R. C. Peterson (UCSC), R. M. Rich, D. B. Reitzel (UCLA), R. P. Schiavon, S. R. Majewski (UVa)

135.07 HST Imaging of MEGA Microlensing Candidates in M31

P. Cseresnjes, A. Crotts, A. Bergier (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory), J. de Jong (Kapteyn Insitute), E. Baltz (Stanford University), G. Gyuk (University of Chicago), K. Kuijken (University of Leiden), L. Widrow (Queens University)