15th Annual New Mexico Local Symposium

30 October 1999
 
 
 
 

MORNING PROGRAM

Time
Title
Authors
SESSION 1:
   Chair: Dick Sramek
9:00
WELCOME Miller Goss (NRAO)
9:05
The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Project Van Romero (NMIMT)
9:20
The VLA-Pie Town Link M. Claussen (NRAO)
9:35
The VLA Expansion Project M. Rupen (NRAO)
9:50
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array P. Napier (NRAO)
10:05
Status of the Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory Morgan Wascko (UCR)
10:20
Multiscale Cleaning in AIPS++ Tim Cornwell & Mark Holdaway (NRAO)
SESSION 2:
   Chair: Min Yun
11:00
Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics: Probing the Wavefront Propagation in the Earth's Atmosphere Jacques M. Beckers (National Solar Observatory)
11:15
Collisional Studies of Simulated Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects Eileen V. Ryan (NMHU)
11:30
Observational Study of the Vesta Family of Asteroids William Ryan, Eileen Ryan, Carlos Martinez, Amanda Roybal (NMHU)
11:45
Constraints on the nature of common presolar dust based on observations of collected cosmic dust and vapor condensation experiments Frans J.M. Rietmeijer (UNM) & Joe Nuth III (NASA GSFC)
12:00
The Arches Star Forming Region near the Galactic Center C. Lang (NRAO)
12:15
Massive Star Formation in Early-type(Sa-Sab) Spiral Galaxies Salman Hameed (NMSU) and Nick Devereux (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)

 
 
 
 

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

Time
Title
Authors
SESSION 3:
   Chair: Chris Fassnacht
14:00
Massive Stars as the Ionization Sources for Diffuse Ionized Gas in M33 Charles Hoopes & Rene Walterbos (NMSU)
14:15
HI superbubbles and related stellar clusters within disk galaxies Thilker, David (NRAO), Braun, Robert (NFRA), Walterbos, Rene (NMSU)
14:30
An X-ray, Optical and Radio Search for Supernova Remnants in the Sculptor Group Galaxies NGC 247, NGC 300 and NGC 7793 Thomas Pannuti and Nebojsa Duric (UNM)
14:45
Star formation and dust extincition in moderate redshift clusters A. Petric (NMIMT), F. Owen & M. Rupen (NRAO)
15:00
Gas in X-ray Clusters: A New Approach T. Markovic & J. Eilek (NMIMT)
15:15
Interactions between Galaxies in Compact Groups Marcus Price (UNM)
SESSION 4:
   Chair: Greg Taylor
16:00
The Super Strong & Brief X-ray Transient XTE J1819-254 (=V4641 Sgr) R.M. Hjellming and M.P. Rupen (NRAO)
16:15
Driving the Pulsations of gamma Doradus Variable Stars J.A. Guzik, A. Kaye, P. Bradley, A.N. Cox, and C. Neuforge (LANL)
16:30
BVRI photometry and light curve modeling of the Algol Binary WW Cygni R.T. Zavala, B.J. McNamara, T.E. Harrison, O. Mireles, B. Rodriguez, M. Sanchez (NMSU)
16:45
Measuring the Masses of Black Holes Dawn M. Leeber, Thomas E. Harrison & Bernard J. McNamara (NMSU)
17:00
Search for TeV Emission from GRBs with the Milagrito Detector Joe McCullough (UCSC)
17:15
Rapid Variability in Gamma-Ray Blazars Tom Vestrand (LANL)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

POSTERS

Title
Authors
The puzzle of the sparse observed frequency spectrum of shell-hydrogen burning delta Scuti variable stars P.A. Bradley and J.A. Guzik (LANL)
VLBA Observations of the Gravitational Lens 0218+357 A. Cohen (NRAO)
Wide Field Imaging in AIPS++ Tim Cornwell & Kumar Golap (NRAO)
H_0 from Gravitational Lenses: Season 2 VLA Monitoring of CLASS B1608+656 C. Fassnacht (NRAO)
Variability at Thermal and Visible Wavelengths in an Unresolved Jupiter Christopher R. Gelino & Mark Marley (NMSU)
Mauritius Radio Telescope: An array for a Southern sky survey at 151.5 MHz K. Golap (NRAO)
An Array Configuration Study for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Gary Loos (Air Force Research Laboratory) & David Westpfahl (NMIMT)
Magdalena Ridge Observatory and LANL Peregrine M. McGehee (LANL)
The FIR-Radio Correlation in Abell Clusters Miller, N. (NRAO), and Owen, F. (NRAO)
Seismological tests of the diffusion/mass loss theory for lambda Bootis stars C. Neuforge, J.A. Guzik, P.A. Bradley, A.N. Cox, A.B. Kaye (LANL)
Applications of Astronomical Methods to the Study of Man-Made Space Objects Tamara E. W. Payne (Schafer Corp.), Stephen A. Gregory (UNM), Don M. Payne (Schafer Corp.)
Rapid Optical Followup Observations of SGRs with ROTSE-I N. Seldomridge (LANL) et al.
Pulsation behavior of delta Scuti and SX Phoenicis stars Matthew Templeton (NMSU), Joyce Guzik & (LANL) Bernie McNamara, (NMSU)
New VLBA Features J. Ulvestad (NRAO)
The HSB/LSB Galaxies NGC 2403 and UGC 128 M. Verheijen (NRAO)
Mapping the z=0.18 HI Absorption Against PKS1830-211 M. Verheijen (NRAO)
Photometric Variability and Astrometric Stability of the Radio Continuum Nucleus in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC5548 J.M. Wrobel (NRAO)