16th Annual New Mexico Local Symposium -- Preliminary Program

27 October 2000
 
 

MORNING PROGRAM

Time
Title
Authors
SESSION 1:
Stars, Gas, and Star Formation
Chair: Debra Shepherd
9:00
WELCOME Miller Goss (NRAO)
9:05
Shocks in Jets Associated with the Youngest Protostars Claire Chandler (NRAO), John Richer (Cavendish), & Frederic Gueth (MPIfR)
9:20
Near-Infrared Photometry of L- and T-Dwarfs Denise Stephens (NMSU)
9:35
Properties of HI in M33 David Thilker (NRAO), Robert Braun (NFRA), & Rene Walterbos (NMSU)
9:50
High Velocity Gas in Face-on Galaxies Andreea Petric (NMIMT) & Michael Rupen (NRAO)
10:05
Supernova Remnants in Nearby Galaxies N. Duric (UNM), T. Pannuti (UNM), & C. Lacey (NRL)
10:20
Faint Star-Forming Galaxies in Nearby Clusters Neal Miller (NRAO/NMSU) & Frazer Owen (NRAO)
     
SESSION 2:
The Kitchen Sink
Chair: Joan Wrobel
11:00
Modeling the Brightness of the Moon over 350-2500 nm for Spacecraft Calibration James M. Anderson (NMIMT/USGS), Hugh Kieffer (USGS), & Kris Becker (USGS)
11:15
The Stability of Triple Star Systems with Highly Inclined Orbits S.A. Khodykin (Volgograd State Pedagogical Univ.), A.I. Zakharov (Sternberg Institute) & W.L. Andersen (ENMU)
11:30
Abell 2256: A Cubic Megaparsec Nonthermal Laboratory Tracy Clarke (NRAO)
11:45
Latest Results from the CLASS Gravitational Lens Survey Steve Myers (NRAO)
12:00
Rotation Measure Analysis of the Quasars 3C273 and 3C279 R.T. Zavala (NMSU) & G.B. Taylor (NRAO)

 

VLBA TOURS AVAILABLE, 12:30-13:30


 

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

Time
Title
Authors
SESSION 3:
X-ray Sources
Chair: Chris Carilli
14:00
GRS 1915+105: X-ray Variability and its Possible Origin Sergey P. Trudolyubov (LANL)
14:15
Estimation of Relativistic Accretion Disk Parameters from Iron Line Emission V.I. Pariev (LANL), B.C. Bromley (Univ. of Utah), & W.A. Miller (LANL)
14:30
X-Ray Flashes and Their Connection to Gamma-Ray Bursts W. Priedhorsky (LANL), V. Arefiev (Space Research Institute), & K. Borozdin (LANL)
14:45
A New Era in X-ray Studies of Clusters of Galaxies: XMM-Newton Performance Verification Observations Tom Vestrand (LANL), & XMM-Newton Instrument Teams
15:00
First Observation of Andromeda Galaxy with XMM-Newton Konstantin N. Borozdin (LANL), William C. Priedhorsky (LANL), & XMM-Newton PV Team
     
SESSION 4:
Astronomy's Future Devices
Chair: Clint Janes
15:45
The New VLBA 3mm Receivers R. Hayward (NRAO)
16:00
A 10 Gbit/sec Fiber-Optic Link J. Jackson (NRAO)
16:15
The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope Stephen L. Keil (NSO)
16:30
An Infrared Interferometer at Fenton Hill as a Prototype for MRO Galen Gisler (LANL), Peregrine McGehee (LANL), Jeff Friedman (UPR), Jeff Baker (AFRL), & Gary Loos (AFRL)
16:45
Probing the Cosmos from Deep Underground: New Projects at WIPP Todd Haines (LANL)

 
 
 

POSTERS

Title
Authors
The Analysis of Sodium and Potassium in the Mercurian Exosphere C.M. Anderson-Munford (NMSU), Andrew E. Potter (NSO), Rosemary Killen (SWRI), & Tom Morgan (SWRI)
OH Zeeman Magnetic Field Detections Toward Five Supernova Remnants Using the VLA C.L. Brogan, D.A. Frail, W.M. Goss (NRAO), & T.H. Troland (Univ. Ky.)
Microquasar GRS1915+105: VLBA Images of the AU-Scale Jet V. Dhawan (NRAO), I.F. Mirabel (Saclay), & L.F. Rodriguez (UNAM)
20 Years of Frontier Science with the VLA D.G. Finley & M.J. Claussen (NRAO)
Representations of World Coordinates in FITS Eric W. Greisen (NRAO) & Mark Calabretta (ATNF)
The Sizes of 1720 MHz OH Masers in Supernova Remnant IC 443 I.M. Hoffman (UNM), M.J. Claussen, W.M. Goss (NRAO), & A.M.S. Richards (NRAL)
A New Flexible High Time Resolution Processor Jeff Kern (NMIMT), Tim Hankins (NMIMT/NRAO), & Joe Dickerson (NMIMT)
Radio Galaxies in High Density Environments Greg Taylor (NRAO), Andy Fabian (Cambridge U.), Steve Allen (Cambridge U.), & Federica Govoni (CNR)
Radio Emission from Quasar-2 Candidates J.S. Ulvestad (NRAO), S.G. Djorgovski, R.J. Brunner, & A. Mahabal (Caltech)
VLBA Studies of the Accretion Region in NGC 1275 R.C. Walker (NRAO, K.I. Kellerman (NRAO), V. Dhawan (NRAO), J.D. Romney (NRAO), K.R. Anantharamiah (RRL), R.C. Vermeulen (NFRA), & W. Alef (MPIfR)
An NRAO VLBA Survey of FIRST Sources in the NOAO Deep Wide Field J1432+3416 J.M. Wrobel, G.B. Taylor, S.T. Myers, & C.D. Fassnacht (NRAO)