Session 19. GRB and SGR

Poster, Monday, January 9, 2006, 9:20am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

19.01 Optical Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Critical First Few Minutes

W. T. Vestrand, P. R. Wozniak, S. M. Evans, R. R. White, J. A. Wren (LANL), RAPTOR Team

19.02 Swift-BAT: Transient Source Monitoring

L. M. Barbier, S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm, C. Markwardt, R. Mushotsky, A. Parsons, T. Sakamoto, J. Tueller (NASA / GSFC), E. Fenimore, D. Palmer (LANL), G. Skinner (CESR, France), Swift-BAT Team

19.03 Prompt emission properties of the highest redshift GRB 050904 observed by Swift-BAT and Konus-Wind

A. M. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto, J. Cummings (GSFC/NRC), L. M. Barbier, S. D. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, J. Tueller, T. Cline (GSFC), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/ UMD), D. Hullinger (UMD), G. Sato (JAXA/ISAS), E. Fenimore, D. Palmer (Los Alamos National Lab.), R. Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks, M. Ulanov, S. Golenetskii (Ioffe Physico-Technical Inst.), Swift-BAT Team, Konus-Wind Team

19.04 Discovery of the Short Gamma Ray Burst GRB 050709

J.S. Villasenor (MIT Kavli Institute), D.Q. Lamb (University of Chicago), G.R. Ricker (MIT Kavli Institute), J.-L. Atteia (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees), N. Kawai (Tokyo Institute of Technology), N. Butler (MIT Kavli Institute), Y. Nakagawa (Aoyama Gakuin University), J.G. Jernigan (UC Berkeley, SSL), M. Boer (CESR,Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees), G.B. Crew (MIT Kavli Institute), T.Q. Donaghy (University of Chicago), J. Doty (Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.), E.E. Fenimore, M. Galassi (LANL), C. Graziani (University of Chicago), K. Hurley (UC Berkeley, SSL), A. Levine (MIT Kavli Institute), F. Martel (Espace Inc.), M. Matsuoka, J.-F. Olive (Tsukuba Space Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), G. Prigozhin (MIT Kavli Institute), T. Sakamoto (GSFC), Y. Shirasaki (National Astronomical Observatory), M. Suzuki (RIKEN), T. Tamagawa (Aoyama Gakuin University), R. Vanderspek (MIT Kavli Institute), S.E. Woosley (UC Santa Cruz), A. Yoshida (Aoyama Gakuin University), J. Braga (INPE), R. Manchanda (TIFR), G. Pizzichini (INAF/IASF Bologna), K. Takagishi, M. Yamauchi (Faculty of Engineering, Miyazaki University), HETE-2 Team

19.05 Effects of Spectral and Temporal Variations in Gamma Ray Burst Parameters

L. M. Ejzak, A. L. Melott (University of Kansas), B. C. Thomas (Washburn University), M. V. Medvedev (University of Kansas)

19.06 Magnetic Tower Model for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

D. A. Uzdensky (Princeton University), A. I. MacFadyen (Institute for Advanced Study)

19.07 Searching for GRB Emission above 100 GeV with STACEE

A. Jarvis, J. Ball, J. Carson, R. A. Ong, J. Zweerink (UCLA), D. A. Williams (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, UCSC), D. A. Bramel, R. Mukherjee (Columbia University), C. E. Covault, D. D. Driscoll (Case Western Reserve University), P. Fortin, D. S. Hanna, J. Kildea, T. Lindner, C. Mueller, K. Ragan (McGill University), D. M. Gingrich (Centre for Subatomic Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton; TRIUMF), R. A. Scalzo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

19.08 A Morphological Study of Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies

C. Wainwright (Pomona College), E. Berger (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington), B. E. Penprase (Pomona College)

19.09 The Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA

K Kuehn (University of California, Irvine), AMANDA Collaboration, InterPlanetary Network Collaboration

19.10 The Evolution of the Radio Nebula Produced by the 2004 December 27 Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20

J. Gelfand, B. Gaensler (Harvard University), G. Taylor (University of New Mexico), C. Kouveliotou (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center), D. Eichler, Y. Lyubarsky (Ben Gurion University), Y. Granot (KIPAC/SLAC/Stanford), E. Ramirez-Ruiz (Princeton University/IAS), K. Newton-McGee (University of Sydney), R. Wijers (University of Amsterdam)