Session 198. Neutron Stars and Pulsars

Oral, Thursday, January 12, 2006, 10:00-11:30am, Balcony B

198.01 Bulk and Thermal Comptonization in Accretion Powered X-Ray Pulsars

P. A. Becker (George Mason University), M. T. Wolff, K. D. Wolfram (Naval Research Laboratory)

198.02D Candidate Isolated Neutron Stars and Other Stellar X-ray Sources from ROSAT and SDSS

M. A. Agüeros (University of Washington)

198.03 Magnetic Hydrogen Atmosphere Models and the Neutron Star RX~J1856.5-3754

W.C.G Ho, D.L. Kaplan (MIT Kavli Institute), P. Chang (UC Berkeley), M. van Adelsberg (Cornell), A.Y. Potekhin (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute), G. Chabrier (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CRAL)

198.04 Evidence for Harmonic Content and Frequency Evolution of Burst Rise Oscillations from 4U 1636-536

S. Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland at College Park), T. Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC)

198.05 Fast X-ray Oscillations during the 1998 Magnetar Flare from SGR 1900+14: Evidence for Neutron Star Vibrations

T. E. Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC), A. L. Watts (MPA/Garching)

198.06 Swift-BAT Long-Term Observations of the Hard X-ray Transient 1A 0535+262

J. R. Cummings (GSFC/NRC), L. Barbier, S. Barthelmy (GSFC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), R. Gilmore (UCSC), D. Hullinger (U MD), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/U MD), D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/NRC), G. Sato (ISAS), D. Smith (UCSC), J. Tueller (GSFC)

198.07D State Transition in Soft X-ray Transients

D. Maitra (Yale University)