Session 170. Cosmology, Early Universe, Cosmic Distance Scale

Poster, Thursday, January 12, 2006, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

170.01 Mapping Mass in the Local Universe with SFI++ and 2MASS

K. L. Masters (Harvard-SAO CfA, Cornell Univ.), C. M. Springob (Naval Research Lab, Cornell Univ.), M. P. Haynes, R. Giovanelli (Cornell University), J. P. Huchra (Harvard-SAO CfA)

170.02 Discovery of Cepheids and the Distance of NGC 5128 (Centaurus A)

J. Mould (NOAO), L. Ferrarese, P. B. Stetson (HIA), J. Tonry (IfA), J. Blakeslee (WSU)

170.03 Searching for Long-period Cepheids in NGC 4258 with Gemini

C.E. Smith (Indiana U.), L.M. Macri (NOAO)

170.04 Galaxy angular power spectrum analysis of the FLAMEX survey

C. Ngeow, J. Mohr (UIUC), M. Brodwin (JPL), A. Gonzalez (UFl), J. Huchra (CfA), FLAMEX survey Team

170.05 Improved Zodiacal Light Modeling

L. R. Levenson, E. L. Wright (UCLA)

170.06 Quantifying the Effects of Cosmic Variance Using the NOAO Deep-Wide Field Survey

M.S. Keremedjiev (Cornell University), E.C. MacDonald, A. Dey, B.T. Jannuzi (NOAO)

170.07 The UDF05 Program: Searching for Galaxies at z>6.5 in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field

R.A. Lucas, M. Stiavelli, S.V.W. Beckwith, L.E. Bergeron (STScI), C.M. Carollo (ETH), H.C. Ferguson (STScI), J.P. Gardner (NASA-GSFC), R. Hook (ST-ECF), S-Y. Kim (JHU), A.M. Koekemoer (STScI), S.J. Lilly (ETH), B. Mobasher, N. Panagia, C.M. Pavlovsky (STScI), H-W. Rix (MPIA), M. Robberto (STScI)

170.08 Determining the Contamination in the UDF NICMOS parallel field B,V,I,J,H catalogs

C.M. Pavlovsky (STScI), S. Kim (JHU), M. Stiavelli, H.C. Ferguson, S.V.W. Beckwith, L.E. Bergeron (STScI), C.M. Carollo (ETH), J.P. Gardner (NASA GSFC), R Hook (ST-ECF), A Koekemoer (STScI), S Lilly (ETH), R.A. Lucas (STScI), B Mobasher, N Panagia (ST-ESA), H.-W. Rix (MPIA), M Robberto (ST-ESA)

170.09 Mapping VLBA Observations of Gravitational Lens Systems B2045+265 and B1608+656

C.E. Flack (Bemidji State University), C.D. Fassnacht (UC-Davis)

170.10 A Multi-Resolution Weak Lensing Reconstruction Method

H. Khiabanian, I.P. Dell'Antonio (Brown University)

170.11 Filtering Dust Contamination from CMB Data with Wavelets and Radon Transforms

G.J. Larson, E.F. Bunn, V. Kasliwal, M. McCann (University of Richmond)

170.12 Search for Extragalactic Point Sources in WMAP First Year Data

X. Chen, E.L. Wright (University of California, Los Angeles)

170.13 CMB Foreground Surveys with the New Sensitive Wideband Continuum Backend on the Green Bank Telescope

B. Mason (NRAO), L. Weintraub, T. Pearson (Caltech), J. Sievers (CITA), M. Shepherd, A. Readhead (Caltech)

170.14 Signatures of Cosmic Strings in the Cosmic Microwave Background

A. S. Lo (Northrop Grumman Space Technology), E. L. Wright (UCLA)

170.15 QUIET: Q U Imaging Experiment for Detection of the CMBR Polarization

L.B. Newburgh (Columbia University), UC, Berkeley Collaboration, Caltech Collaboration, Columbia U. Collaboration, GSFC Collaboration, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Collaboration, JPL Collaboration, Kavli Inst., U. Chicago Collaboration, Kavli Inst., Stanford U. Collaboration, U. Miami Collaboration, U. Oxford Collaboration, Princeton U. Collaboration

170.16 CO(1-0) Emission in High-Redshift QSOs

D. A. Riechers, F. Walter (MPIA Heidelberg), C. L. Carilli (NRAO Socorro), K. K. Knudsen (MPIA Heidelberg), K. Y. Lo (NRAO Charlottesville), D. J. Benford, J. G. Staguhn (NASA/GSFC), T. R. Hunter (CfA Cambridge), F. Bertoldi (RAIUB Bonn), C. Henkel, K. M. Menten, A. Weiss (MPIfR Bonn), M. S. Yun (UMASS), N. Z. Scoville (Caltech)

170.17 Massive Black Hole Merger Rates

E. Alicea-Munoz (Penn State, NASA/GSFC), J. Baker, J. Centrella (NASA/GSFC), P. Laguna (Penn State), M.C. Miller, M. Ricotti (UMD)

170.18 The Hubble Constant From Combined Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and X-ray Data of 39 High Redshift Galaxy Clusters

M. Bonamente (UAH), M. Joy (NASA/MSFC), S. LaRoque, J. Carlstrom (U. Chicago), E. Reese (U.C. Davis), K. Dawson (U.C. Berkeley)

170.19 The Cosmic Near Infrared Background: Remnant Light From Early Stars

E.R. Fernandez, E. Komatsu (University of Texas at Austin)

170.20 A High Redshift Survey Using Deep Near-Infrared Imaging

E R Stanway, A J Barger, L Trouille (UW-Madison), L L Cowie (IFA Hawaii)

170.21 The Lack of Influence of Metallicity on Cooling and Collapse of Ionized Gas in Small Protogalactic Halos

A.-K. Jappsen (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany), S. C. O. Glover (American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA), R. S. Klessen (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany), M.-M. Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; Columbia University, New York, USA)

170.22 WISE and Dark Energy

E. L. Wright (UCLA), P. R. M. Eisenhardt (JPL)

170.23 SIM as a Tool for Extragalactic Astronomy

G. Worthey (Washington State University), Space Interferometry Mission Team