Session 152. Cosmology, Early Universe, Cosmic Distance Scale II

Oral, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 10:00-11:30am, Balcony A

152.01 Halos and Star Formation in the Dark Ages

D.S. Reed, R Bower, C.S. Frenk, A. Jenkins, T. Theuns (Institute for Computational Cosmology-Durham), S.D.M. White (Max-Planck Inst. fur Astrophysik)

152.02 Uncovering the Acceleration History of the Universe and the Secrets of the Dark Energy

R. A. Daly (Penn State University), S. G. Djorgovski (California Institute of Technology)

152.03D The ESSENCE Survey: First Cosmological Results

G. Miknaitis (UW/FNAL), ESSENCE Collaboration

152.04 SNLS: Type Ia Supernova Rates from the SNLS Survey: the Connection with Morphology and Star Formation Rate

C.J. Pritchet (U. Victoria), M. Sullivan (U. Toronto), S. Gwyn (U. Victoria), P. Astier (LPNHE, CNRS-IN2P3), E. Aubourg (CEA Saclay), D. Balam (U. Victoria), S. Basa (LAM, CNRS Marseille), R.G. Carlberg, A. Conley (U. Toronto), S. Fabbro (CENTRA, IST Lisbon), D. Fouchez (CPPM, CNRS-IN2P3), J. Guy (LPNHE, CNRS-IN2P3), I. Hook (U. Oxford), D.A. Howell (U. Toronto), H. Lafoux (CEA Saclay), J.D. Neill (U. Victoria), R. Pain, N. Palanque-Delabrouille (LPNHE, CNRS-IN2P3), K. Perrett (U. Toronto), N. Regnault (LPNHE, CNRS-IN2P3), J. Rich (CEA Saclay), R. Taillet, S. Baumont (LPNHE, CNRS-IN2P3), J. Bronder (U. Oxford), V. Lusset (CEA Saclay), P. Ripoche (CPPM, CNRS-IN2P3), A. Mourao (CENTRA, IST Lisbon), S. Perlmutter (LBNL, Berkeley), M. Graham, E. Hsiao (U. Victoria)

152.05 Detailed X-ray/WMAP comparison for a sample of 31 nearby galaxy clusters - incomplete Sunyaev-Zel'dovich silhouette and the question of the CMB distance scale

R. Lieu, J. Mittaz (University of Alabama, Huntsville), S.-N. Zhang (Tsinghua University, Beijing)

152.06D Accuracy of slow-roll inflation given current observational constraints

A. Makarov (Princeton University)

152.07 A Test for Temporal and Spatial Variation in the Fine Structure Constant using DEEP2 Redshift Survey Data

J. A. Newman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), DEEP2 Team