Session 164. Extra-galactic ISM - Near to Far

Oral, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 2:00-3:30pm, Balcony A

164.01D Distance Limits to High Velocity Clouds

C. R. Thom (Swinburne), M. E. Putman (UMich), B. K. Gibson (Swinburne), N. Christlieb (Hamburger Sternwarte), C. Flynn (Tuorla Observatory), T. C. Beers (MSU)

164.02 Giant Molecular Clouds in Andromeda

E. Rosolowsky (Center for Astrophysics)

164.03 Circumstantial Starbirth in Starbursts: Systematic Variations in the Stellar and Nebular Content of Giant HII Regions in the Local Group Galaxy M33

W. H. Waller (Tufts University), E. J. Murphy (Yale University), R. D. Gehrz, E. Polomski, C. E. Woodward (University of Minnesota), G. G. Fazio (H-S CfA), G. H. Rieke (University of Arizona), Spitzer/M33 Research Team

164.04 The HII Region Luminosity Function and Diffuse H\alpha Emission in HI-Selected Galaxies from SINGG

M. S. Oey (U. Michigan), G. R. Meurer (JHU), S. M. Caballero-Nieves (U. Michigan), E. Furst (Bucknell U.), D. J. Hanish (JHU), E. M. Levesque (MIT), D. A. Thilker (JHU), G. L. Walth (Lowell Obs.), S. Yelda (U. Michigan), SINGG Team

164.05D Kinematics of the Diffuse Ionized Gas Halos of NGC 891 and NGC 5775

G. H. Heald, R. J. Rand (University of New Mexico), R. A. Benjamin (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater), M. A. Bershady (University of Wisconsin - Madison), J. A. Collins (University of Colorado - Boulder), J. Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo-Australian Observatory)

164.06 APEX Detection of Water at z=0.89

T. Wiklind (ESA/STScI), F. Combes (Observatoire de Paris)