Session 153. Space Missions: Exoplanets, Swift/UVOT and Suzaku

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

153.01 Kepler Mission: Current Status

W. J. Borucki, D. G. Koch, J. J. Lissauer (NASA Ames), G. S. Basri (UCal.,Berkeley), D. A. Caldwell, E. DeVore, J. M. Jenkins (SETI Instit.), J. J. Caldwell (York U., Canada), J. Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aarhus U., Denmark), W. D. Cochran (U. Texas), E. W. Dunham (Lowell Obs.), T. N. Gautier (JPL), J. C. Geary, D. A. Latham, D. Sasselov (SAO), R. L. Gilliland (STScI), A. Gould (Lawrence Hall Science, Berkeley), S. B. Howell (NOAO), Y. Kondo (GSFC), D. G. Monet (USNOFS)

153.02 Demonstration of Gains in Exoplanet Imaging Sensitivity in a Shaped Pupil Coronagraph by Use of the Differential Image Technique

R. Belikov, N. J. Kasdin, R. J. Vanderbei, Michael Carr (Princeton University)

153.03D Wavefront Amplitude and Phase Correction Using Pupil Shape Diversity

A. Give'on, J. Kasdin, R. Venderbei (Princeton University)

153.04 The Visible Nulling Coronagraph-- Architecture Definition and Technology Development

B.M. Levine, M. Shao, J. K. Wallace, D. T. Liu, E. Schmidtlin, S. Rao, E. Serabyn, B. Mennesson, J. J. Green, F. Aguyao, S. F. Fregoso (JPL/Caltech), B. F. Lane (Kavli Center for Space Research), R. Samuele (Northop-Grumman Space Technology Corporation), C. Tuttle (Lockheed-Martin Corporation)

153.05 Science with Swift's UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT)---More Than Just GRBs

P.T. Boyd (NASA's GSFC), P. Roming (PSU), K. O. Mason (MSSL), J. Nousek (PSU), N. Gehrels, F. Marshall (NASA's GSFC), M. Still (SALT/SAAO), P. Brown, S. D. Hunsberger (PSU), A. Breeveld (MSSL), Swift UVOT Team

153.06 Mission overview of Suzaku and topics of observations

H. Kunieda (Nagoya University), Suzaku Team

153.07 Early Results from Suzaku- Broad Band X-ray Spectra of AGN and X-ray Binaries

R.F. Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC), Suzaku Team

153.08 Early Results from Suzaku: Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants & Clusters of Galaxies

M. W. Bautz (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research), Suzaku Team