Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 20 APRIL 2002

B17.001 Gravitation

B17.002 NUCLEAR QUANTUM GRAVITATION - Further Explanations and Proofs

Ronald R. Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)

B17.003 ONE FORCE

Ronald R. Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)

B17.004 A Back Door for GR Gravity

Russell L. Collins (retired)

B17.005 Computation of Moments of Rotating Collapsed Objects in Alternate Theories of Gravity

James Graber

B17.006 Non-Oscillatory Central Difference Schemes and Artificial Viscosity Methods for Relativistic Hydrodynamics

Peter Anninos, Chris Fragile, Stephen Murray (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

B17.007 Undergraduate Research

B17.008 Applications of Darboux Transformations to Alpha-decay

William Fendt (University of Central Arkansas Department of Physics and Astronomy), Rahul Mehta

B17.009 Development of a Time-of-flight setup for the measurement of stopping powers

Ian Schick, Uwe Greife (Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401)

B17.010 Comparison of preamplifier modules for improved resolution of silicon diode detectors.

Matt Hilt, Uwe Greife (Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401)

B17.011 Few Body Systems

B17.012 Replacement manifolds: a method to uniformize semiclassical wave functions

Jiri Vanicek, Eric Heller (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

B17.013 Unified Framework for Finding the Eigenstates of Helmoltz Equation Using Boundary Methods

Natasha Lepore (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Doron Cohen (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel), Eric Heller (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Harvard University)

B17.014 Equilibium and Stability of Spherical Vlasov Systems

D.C. Barnes, L. Chacon, J.M. Finn

B17.015 Physics Education

B17.016 Revitalizing the Physics Department: The Use of Interactive Technologies to Improve Student Learning

Peter Sheldon, Holly Groover (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)

B17.017 History of Physics

B17.018 Statistical Challenges in Medieval Astronomy

Virginia Trimble (Astronomy Dept, Univ of Maryland, and Physics Dept. UC Irvine)

B17.019 Particles in Fields

B17.020 Periodic Table of Ground-State Elementary Particles

Akhtar Mahmood, Allan Figueroa (University of Texas-Pan American)

B17.021 The Dirac Spinors Presented Axiomatically

Charles P. Luehr (University of New Mexico, NMERI (Retired))

B17.022 The Reaction \mu^- + p\longrightarrow \Lambda + \nu_\mu and The Weak Hadronic Form Factors

Michael Barnett, Stephan Mintz (Florida International University)

B17.023 Mineral Oil - It's Not Just a Laxative! Oil Tests for the MiniBooNE Experiment

Jennifer Raaf (University of Cincinnati), MiniBooNE Collaboration

B17.024 2D topological photon representation and coherent ordering

Alexander Khodin (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Electronics)

B17.025 Physics of Beams

B17.026 Fractional van der Pol Oscillator Equations

K. O. Oyedeji (Morehouse College), R. E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

B17.027 Design of ASTRA - Advanced Source for Tests, Research and Applications. 1. Magnetic field calculations

Peter Zavodszky, Felix Marti, Al Zeller (NSCL/MSU East Lansing, MI), Sandor Biri (ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary)

B17.028 Improved Envelope And Centroid Equations for High Current Beams

Thomas C. Genoni, Thomas P. Hughes (Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, New Mexico)

B17.029 Resolving Two Beams in Beam Splitters with a Beam Position Monitor

Sergey Kurennoy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

B17.030 Astrophysics: Cosmic Rays

B17.031 A New High-Resolution Method for Measuring Cosmic Ray Composition beyond 10 TeV

Scott P. Wakely (University of Chicago), David B. Kieda (University of Utah), Simon P. Swordy (University of Chicago)

B17.032 Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton to Proton Abundance Ratio between 4 and 50 GeV with HEAT-pbar.

Michael Schubnell (U. Michigan), Steve Beach, James Beatty (Penn State U.), Amit Bhattacharyya, Charles Bower (Indiana U.), Stephane Coutu (Penn State U.), Michael DuVernois (U. Minnesota), Allan Labrador (Caltech), Shawn McKee (U. Michigan), Steve Minnick (Penn. State U.), Dietrich Müller (U. Chicago), James Musser (Indiana U.), Scott Nutter (Northern Kentucky U.), Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), Gregory Tarlé, Andrew Tomasch (U. Michigan), HEAT Collaboration

B17.033 Abrupt Climate Change: A Magnetic Coupling Model (MCM) Prediction.

John T. A. Ely (U.Wash.)

B17.034 CHICOS - Initial Deployment and Future Plans

R. D. McKeown, J. Gao (W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), CHICOS Collaboration

B17.035 All-sky monitoring, wide-angle telescopes for VHE gamma rays and VHE-EE cosmic rays

Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Lloyd Hillman (The University of Alabama in Huntsville), OWL and EUSO optics Team

B17.036 Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) Update

H.S. Ahn, O. Ganel, K.C. Kim, S.A. Naqvi, E.S. Seo, R. Sina, J.Z. Wang, J. Wu (U. of Maryland), G. Case, D. Granger, T.G. Guzik, J.B. Isbert, B. Price, M. Stewart, J.P. Wefel (Louisiana State U.), J.H. Adams, M. Christl (NASA/MSFC), A.R. Fazely, R. Gunasingha (Southern U.), Y.J. Han, H.J. Kim, S.K. Kim (SNU(Korea)), G. Bashindzhagyan, E. Kouznetsov, M. Panasyuk, A. Panov, G. Samsonov, N. Sokolskaya, A. Voronin, V. Zatsepin (MSU(Russia)), J. Chang, W.K.H. Schmidt (MPI(Germany))

B17.037 Measuring The Cosmic-ray Spectral Knee With Low Count Statistics

Ramin Sina, Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)

B17.038 The study of the knee in cosmic ray spectrum

Valery Petkov (Baksan Neutrino Observatory INR RAS, Russia), Bruce Cleveland (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Canada), Vladimir Gavrin, Victor Poddubny (Baksan Neutrino Observatory INR RAS, Russia), BUST Team

B17.039 Atmospheric secondary charged cosmic radiation at a place of 11.5 GV geomagnetic cut-off

I.N. Azcarate (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, Casilla de Correo No 5, Villa Elisa ( 1894 ), Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

B17.040 Milagro's Cosmic Ray Moon Shadow

Frank Samuelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Milagro Collaboration

B17.041 On nearby quasar remnants as sources of ultra-relativistic cosmic rays

Elihu Boldt, Timothy Hamilton, Michael Loewenstein (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center), Diego Torres (Princeton University)

B17.042 New Physics at the Cosmic Ray ``Knee"?

Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Argyris Nicolaidis (Dept. of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

B17.043 Astrophysics: Missions and Instruments I

B17.044 The BATSE Earth Occultation Catalog of Low Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

B. A. Harmon, C.A. Wilson-Hodge, G.J. Fishman, W.S. Paciesas, S.N. Zhang, M.H. Finger, V. Connaughton, T.M. Koshut, W. Henze, M.L. McCollough, M. Sahi, B. Peterson (National Space Science amp; Technology Center, NASA/MSFC), J. Grindlay (Harvard University), D. Barret (CESR, Toulouse, France), C.R. Shrader (NASA/GSFC)

B17.045 The High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE): Operations and Burst Alert Distribution

Roland Vanderspek, Geoffrey Crew, John Doty, Jesus Noel Villasenor, Nathaniel Butler, Gregory Prigozhin, Glen Monnelly, George Ricker (MIT Center for Space Research), HETE Team

B17.046 SGARFACE Sensitivity to Short Photon Bursts at Energies above 200 MeV

Stephan LeBohec, Frank Krennrich, Patrick Jordan, Gary Sleege (Iowa State University)

B17.047 Event Screening and Selection on Data from the GLAST Balloon Prototype

T. Kotani (NASA/GSFC; UMBC), R. C. Hartman, J. F. Ormes (NASA/GSFC), GLAST Team

B17.048 Study of Data from the GLAST Balloon Prototype Based on a Cosmic Ray and Instrument Simulator

Tsunefumi Mizuno (Hiroshima University), Tuneyoshi Kamae, Hiroyasu Tajima, Takanobu Handa, Thomas Lindner (SLAC), Hirofumi Mizushima (Hiroshima University), Sei Ogata (Hiroshima Univeristy), Yasushi Fukazawa (Hiroshima University), Masanobu Ozaki (ISAS), Patric Valtersson, Michael Roterman, Niklas Karlsson (Royal Institute of Technology), Heather Kelly (GSFC), GLAST BFEM Team

B17.049 Trigger response and event data characteristics from the Glast Balloon Prototype

Dave Lauben (Stanford University, Hansen Experimental Physics Lab), Bob Schaefer (Goddard Space Flight Center), Eric Grove (Naval Research Laboratory), Tsunefumi Mizuno (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

B17.050 Validation of Geant4 for Gamma Ray Detection

Tuneyoshi Kamae (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Sei Ogata (Hiroshima university), Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hirofumi Mizushima (Hiroshima University), Martin Sjogren, Patric Valtersson, Michael Roterman (Royal Institute of Technology)

B17.051 GLAST LAT Dark Matter Detection Feasibility Studies

Warren Focke (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA), Elliott Bloom, Eduardo do Couto e Silva, Larry Wai, Karl Young (SLAC), Aldo Moriselli, Andrea Lionetto, Alessandro Cesarini, Francesco Fucito (Dept. of Physics, U. Roma ``Tor Vergata'' and INFN Roma 2, Italy), Pierro Ullio (SISSA, Italy)

B17.052 Improvements to the Optics of the Whipple 10 m Telescope

Martin Schroedter (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory / University of Arizona), Veritas Collaboration

B17.053 Novel Photosensor "ReFerence" for Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy and Water Cherenkov Neutrino Physics

Daniel Ferenc (University of California Davis), Alvin Laille, Clayton Bratton (UC Davis)

B17.054 Physics Program at the Caltech LIGO 40-Meter Prototype

Dennis Ugolini (Caltech)

B17.055 Event Reconstruction and Background Suppression in the LXeGRIT Balloon-Borne Compton Telescope

Elena Aprile, Alessandro Curioni, Karl-Ludwig Giboni, Masanori Kobayashi (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA), Uwe G. Oberlack (Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

B17.056 Astrophysics: Stellar Coronae, Stellar Clusters and Groups

B17.057 Electron density determinations of stellar coronae using Fe XXI nd\rightarrow2p (n=3,4,5,6) transitions

H. Chen, P. Beiersdorfer, D.A. Liedahl (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. Bitter (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), G.V. Brown (Goddard Space Flight center), S.M. Kahn (Columbia University)

B17.058 Soft X-Ray Emission Lines of Argon, ArIX -- ArXVI

J.K. Lepson (SSL), P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen (LLNL), E. Behar, S.M. Kahn (CAL)

B17.059 X-Ray Doppler Imaging of Stellar Coronae

Nancy S. Brickhouse, Andrea K. Dupree, Peter Young (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

B17.060 A XMM observation of a RS CVen star

Marina Orio (INAF-Torino, Italy and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Hakki Ogelman (University of Wisconsin, USA)

B17.061 Chandra/ACIS Observations of the 30 Doradus Star-Forming Complex

Leisa Townsley, Patrick Broos, Eric Feigelson, David Burrows (PSU), You-Hua Chu (UIUC), Gordon Garmire (PSU), Richard Griffiths (CMU), Yoshitomo Maeda (ISAS), George Pavlov, Yohko Tsuboi (PSU)

B17.062 Chandra Study of Young Stellar Objects in the NGC 1333 Star-forming Cloud

Konstantin Getman, Eric Feigelson, Leisa Townsley (Penn State University), John Bally (University of Colorado), Charles Lada (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Bo Reipurth (University of Colorado)

B17.063 Chandra X-Ray Observations of the Young Cluster NGC 6530

Jr. Harnden, S. S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), F. Damiani, G. Micela, S. Sciortino (Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana)

B17.064 X-ray Sources in the RCrA Dark Cloud Complex

Gordon Garmire, Audrey Garmire (Penn State University)

B17.065 Chandra Observations of Globular Clusters

David Pooley, Walter Lewin (MIT), Frank Verbunt (Utrecht), Lee Homer, Scott Anderson (UW Seattle), Bryan Gaensler (CfA), Bruce Margon (STScI), Jon Miller (MIT), Derek Fox (Caltech), Victoria Kaspi (McGill), Michiel van der Klis (Amsterdam)

B17.066 Astrophysics: Surveys/Techniques

B17.067 Stellar content of the Chandra Deep Field North

Ann E. Hornschemeier, Eric D. Feigelson (Penn State University), CDF-N Team

B17.068 VHE observations of unidentified EGRET sources with the Whipple 10m telescope

Stephen Fegan (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory / University of Arizona), VERITAS Collaboration

B17.069 Cross-identification of ROSAT X-ray sources in OGLE data

Katherine McGowan, Przemyslaw Wozniak, Thomas Vestrand (LANL)

B17.070 IXOcat: A ROSAT HRI Catalog of Intermediate-luminosity X-ray Objects

Colbert Edward, Ptak Andrew (JHU)

B17.071 The Influence of Gamma-Ray Point Sources on OSSE Positron Annihilation Studies

Peter Milne (LANL), James Kurfess, Mark Strickman (NRL), Mark Leising (Clemson University)

B17.072 Astronomical Data Mining: a Search for White Dwarfs in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey

Patricia Mills (University of Northern Colorado, Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics), R.D. Dietz (University of Northern Colorado, Department of Earth Sciences)

B17.073 Using GHz Flash ADCs at STACEE

Jeffrey Zweerink (UCLA), STACEE Collaboration

B17.074 Sparse Bayes Blocks: A New Method for Catching Sharply-Peaked High Energy Pulsars

Alanna Connors (Eureka Scientific), Alberto Carramiñana (INAOE, Tonantzintla, Mexico)

B17.075 A Collisional Radiative Code for Plasma Modeling

Ming Gu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

B17.076 Astrophysics: Planetary Physics

B17.077 An Explanation for the High Inclinations of Amalthea and Thebe

Amanda Proctor, Douglas Hamilton, Kevin Rauch (University of Maryland)

B17.078 Observations of the Jovian System with the Chandra X-ray Observatory

R. F. Elsner (NASA/MSFC), G. R. Gladstone, W. S. Lewis (SwRI), J. H. Waite, F. J. Crary, D. Grodent (U. Michigan), R. R. Howell (U. Wyoming), R. E. Johnson (U. Virginia), A Bhardwaj (Vikram Sarabhai), P. G. Ford (MIT), M. K. M. K. Dougherty (Imperial College, London), S. A. Espinosa (MPI, Katlenburg-Lindau), T. E. Cravens (U. Kansas), A. F. Tennant, M. C. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC)

B17.079 Magnetorotational Instability in Liqid Metal Couette Flow

K. Noguchi (T-CNLS, LANL), V. I. Pariev, S. A. Colgate (T-6, LANL), J. Nordhaus (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Rochester)

B17.080 Recrystallized Granite Surface Fissures Of Wasatch Range, Produced Not Later Than 1/4 Billion Years Ago.

K L McDonald (PO Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT.)

B17.081 Coalescence Of 2, 3, Or More, Of Approx. 15 Heat Sources (Sustained By Radioactive Decay) Migrating Over Earth's Solid Inner Core Boundary, When Located Near Rotation Axis, In N- or S-Hemisphere, Engenders Geomagnetic Field Reversals

Keith McDonald (P.0. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT)

B17.082 Astrophysics: Active Galactic Nuclei

B17.083 The Oscillating state Sy1/NLSy1 Mkn110?

Piergiorgio Casella, Fabrizio Nicastro, Martin Elvis, Antonella Fruscione, Siemiginowska (HEAD-CfA, Cambridge, MA, USA), Smita Mathur (Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA), Belinda Wilkes (HEAD-CfA, Cambridge, MA, USA)

B17.084 CHANDRA DETECTION OF AN X-RAY EINSTEIN RING IN PKS 1830-211

George Chartas, Varsha Gupta, Gordon Garmire (PSU), Jim Lovell, Dave Jauncey (Australia Telescope National Facility)

B17.085 Quasar Red-Shifts: Experimental Test via the H:21cm Line

Charles Gallo (Superconix Inc)

B17.086 General Relativistic MHD with the Flowfield Dependent Variation Method

G. A. Richardson (NRC / MSFC), T. J. Chung (University of Alabama - Huntsville)

B17.087 Excitation of Singular Modes in Thin Accretion Disks and Relevance of Non-linear Processes

P.S. COPPI (Yale Un.), Bruno COPPI (MIT)

B17.088 A Complete Survey for X-ray Emission from Radio Jets

Herman Marshall (MIT), Dan Schwartz (SAO), Jim Lovell (CSIRO), Dave Murphy (JPL), Diana Worall, Mark Birkinshaw (SAO), Dave Jauncey (CSIRO), Robert Preston (JPL), Brendan Miller (MIT)

B17.089 Gamma Rays from the Blazar PKS 0208-512

J. G. Stacy (Louisiana State University and Southern University, USA), W. T. Vestrand (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), P. Sreekumar (ISRO Satellite Center, Bangalore, India)

B17.090 Simultaneous Optical and TeV Observations of Mkn 421 During the 2000 Season

Pamela Baca, Alberto Sadun (University of Colorado at Denver), Paul Nied (Metro State College of Denver), Paul Boltwood (Boltwood Observatory), Henric Krawczynski (Yale University), Dieter Horns (Max Planck Institute), Mark Kelly, Val Phillips, Jackie Holt, Abdulla Galadari (University of Colorado at Denver)

B17.091 Dynamical Instabilities in Radiation Pressure Dominated Accretion Disks

Aristotle Socrates, Omer Blaes (University of California, Santa Barbara)

B17.092 The Effect of External Winds on Relativistic Jets

Philip Hardee (The University of Alabama), Philip Hughes (The University of Michigan)

B17.093 3-D General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Generating Jets

Ken-Ichi Nishikawa (Rutgers University), Shinji Koide (Toyama University), Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University), Takashiro Kudoh (NAO, Japan), Helene Sol (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon), John Hughes (Rutgers University)

B17.094 CELESTE Observations

David Smith (In2p3/CNRS), CELESTE Collaboration

B17.095 HEGRA Observations of AGN

Alexander Konopelko (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany), HEGRA Collaboration

B17.096 Black Hole Masses in AGN and Galaxies

C. Megan Urry, Jong-Hak Woo (Yale University), Matthew O'Dowd (University of Melbourne)

B17.097 Astrophysics: Galaxies, Clusters and Surveys

B17.098 X-ray Luminosity Function of Point Sources in Early Type Galaxies and its Implication on Measurement of Metal Abundance

Dong-Woo Kim, Giuseppina Fabbiano (SAO)

B17.099 X-Ray Source Population of NGC 6946

Polina Segalova, Jessica Anderson, Ann Marie Rynning, Nicholas Zola, Stephen Holt (F W Olin College of Engineering), Eric Schlegel (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics), Una Hwang, Robert Petre (Goddard Space Flight Center)

B17.100 A Chandra Observation of the Diffuse Emission in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946

Eric M. Schlegel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Stephen S. Holt, Nicholas Zola, Polina Segalova, Ann Marie Rynning, Jessica Anderson (Olin College of Engineering), Una Hwang (NASA's GSFC/University of Maryland), Robert Petre (NASA's GSFC)

B17.101 X-ray Sources in M31: Source Properties and Population

A.K.H. Kong, R. Di Stefano, M.R. Garcia (CfA), J. Greiner (AIP,MPE), F.A. Primini, S.S. Murray (CfA)

B17.102 Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Spiral Galaxies

Roy Kilgard (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and University of Leicester), Phil Kaaret, Miriam Krauss, Andrea Prestwich (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), Tim Roberts, Martin Ward (University of Leicester)

B17.103 Enhanced velocities in colliding disk galaxies: 3-D and line-of-sight deviations from quiescent velocity fields

Susan A. Lamb, Nathan C. Hearn, John P. Morgan (Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois)

B17.104 Simulations of Collisions and Merging of Disk Galaxies using N-body/SPH computations

John P. Morgan, Susan A. Lamb, Nathan C. Hearn, Soojin Kwon (Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois)

B17.105 Diffuse X-ray Emission in the Antennae Galaxies: A First Look

Miriam Krauss, Pepi Fabbiano, Andreas Zezas, Arnold Rots (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

B17.106 Nonthermal Particle and Photon Production in Merging Clusters of Galaxies

Robert C. Berrington (ASEE/NRL), Charles D. Dermer (NRL)

B17.107 A Sharper Picture of X-ray Bright Galaxy Groups: Chandra Imaging and Spectroscopy of HCG 62 and NGC 741

J. M. Vrtilek, L. Grego, L. P. David (Center for Astrophysics), T. J. Ponman (University of Birmingham), W. Forman, C. Jones, D. E. Harris (Center for Astrophysics)

B17.108 A Chandra Mini-Survey of the Lockman Hole

Almus Kenter, Stephen Murray, Gary Meehan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

B17.109 Serendipitous Clusters of Galaxies from XMM-Newton

D. Burke (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), A. Schwope (Astronomisches Institut Potsdam), M. Elvis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), M.G. Watson (Leicester University), G. Lamer (Astronomisches Institut Potsdam), XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre Collaboration

B17.110 Diffuse X-ray Emission from NGC3184 and its correlation with galactic structures

Massimiliano Galeazzi, Wilton T. Sanders, Nathaniel Doane, Andrew Glenn, Nathan Miller (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Michael Juda (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

B17.111 Chandra and FUSE discovery of the Local IGM Filamen

Fabrizio Nicastro, Martin Elvis, Andreas Zezas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA), Fabrizio Fiore (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Roma, Italy), Antonella Fruscione (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA), Smita Mathur (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)

B17.112 Weighing the Galaxy with an intereferometer

Munawar Karim, Ashfaque Bokhari (St. John Fisher College)

B17.113 Reproducing small Fe XVII 3C/3D line ratios from coronal observations in laboratory experiments without opacity

P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, D. Thorn (LLNL), M. Bitter (PPPL), S. M. Kahn (Columbia U.)

B17.114 Diagnostic Utility of the Relative Intensity of 3C to 3D in Fe \sc xvii

G.V. Brown (NASA/GSFC), P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M.H. Chen, K. Reed (LLNL)

B17.115 The AEOS Burst Camera: Project Description

Mark A. Skinner (Boeing LTS), Carl Akerlof, T.A. McKay, Eli Rykoff (University of Michigan)