Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 22 APRIL 2002

N17.001 Astrophysics: General

N17.002 Casimir Force in Schwarzschild metric

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

N17.003 What Are the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants?

James Graber

N17.004 Origin of the Natural Laws in a Binary Universe

Milo Wolff (Technotran)

N17.005 Observed Effects of "Stored", "Frozen" Light, Viscous "Optical Molasses", "Dark", "Gray" Matter, Etc., As Due to the Electron Positron Lattice (EPOLA) Structure of the "Vacuum" Space

Menahem Simhony (Retired Associate Professor, Hebrew University)

N17.006 The Role of the Vacuum Structure on a Revised Bootstrap Model of the GUT Scheme

Nassim Haramein (Anodos Foundation)

N17.007 Flaws in the Big Bang Point To GENESIS, A New Millennium Model of the Cosmos

Robert Gentry (The Orion Foundation)

N17.008 Replace with abstract titleSpace-Time Matrix

Jane Krakower (University Of South Florida)

N17.009 Astrophysics: Missions and Instruments II

N17.010 Supernova / Acceleration Probe: An Overview

Eric Linder (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), SNAP Collaboration

N17.011 Supernova / Acceleration Probe: Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

Gerson iGoldhaber (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), SNAP Collaboration

N17.012 Supernova / Acceleration Probe: GigaCAM - A Billion Pixel Imager

Bill Carithers (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), SNAP Collaboration

N17.013 A MIDEX Mission to Spectrally Analyze the Diffuse X-ray and Ultraviolet Background

Wilton Sanders (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Richard Henry (Maryland Space Grant Consortium and Johns Hopkins University), BEST Team

N17.014 The Astrophysical Plasmadynamic Explorer (APEX): A High Resolution Spectroscopic Observatory

Kent Wood, Raymond Cruddace, Michael Kowalski, Daryl Yentis, Herb Gursky (Naval Research Lab), Jr. Barbee, William Goldstein, Joseph Kordas (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Gilbert Fritz (PRAXIS, Inc.), Martin Barstow, Nigel Bannister (University of Leicester), John Lapington (Mullard Space Science Lab)

N17.015 The soft X-ray telescope (SXT) on the Indian satellite, ASTROSAT

David N. Burrows (Pennsylvania State University), Herbert W. Schnopper (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), Martin Turner (University of Leicester), Kulinder-Pal Singh (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

N17.016 Diffraction-limited astronomical X-ray imaging using multilayer optics

David Windt (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory), Gary Sommargren (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

N17.017 Calibration of the ACIS Low-Energy Spectral Response using 1E0102-72.3

Joseph M. DePasquale, Paul P. Plucinsky, Richard J. Edgar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

N17.018 Sacrificial Charge and the Spectral Resolution Performance of ACIS CCDs

Catherine E. Grant, Gregory Prigozhin, Beverly LaMarr, Mark W. Bautz (MIT Center for Space Research)

N17.019 The ACIS Particle Background: Modeling the Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal Components

Shanil Virani, Paul Plucinsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

N17.020 Prospects for an Improved Microcalorimeter Array for Astro-E2

Caroline STAHLE (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

N17.021 Absolute Cross sections of Fe XVII x-ray transitions measured with the spare Astro-E microcalorimeter Array

G. Brown, K. R. Boyce, R. L. Kelley, F. S. Porter, C. K. Stahle (NASA/GSFC), P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M. May, J. Scofield (LLNL), S. M. Kahn (Columbia University)

N17.022 Laboratory studies of cometary x-ray emission mechanisms using the ASTRO-E spare microcalorimeter

P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, M. May, D. Thorn (LLNL), K. R. Boyce, G. V. Brown, R. L. Kelley, F. S. Porter, C. K. Stahle, A. Szymkowiak (GSFC), S. M. Kahn (Columbia U.), R. E. Olson (U. Missouri)

N17.023 Matching the science to the instrument: a study of a hybrid calorimeter design for Constellation-X

Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

N17.024 Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors for the Constellation-X mission

Frederick Porter (NASA/GSFC), Constellation-X TES Microcalorimeter Collaboration

N17.025 Hard X-ray Imaging for MIRAX

Richard Rothschild (CASS/UCSD), Ronald Remillard (CSR/MIT), William Heindl, James Matteson (CASS/UCSD), Ruediger Staubert, Eckhard Kendziorra, Joern Wilms (IAA-A/Tuebingen), Joao Braga (INPE/Brazil), John Heise (HEA/SRON)

N17.026 Astrophysics: Isolated Pulsars

N17.027 DIffusive Nuclear Burning in Neutron Star Envelopes

Philip Chang (Physics Dept. UC Santa Barbara), Lars Bildsten (ITP/UC Santa Barbara)

N17.028 X-ray Timing of PSR B1509-58: A Planetary System?

Arnold Rots (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

N17.029 Discovery of Pulsed X-ray Emission from PSR B1706-44

E. V. Gotthelf, J. P. Halpern (Columbia University), R. Dodson (University of Tasmania)

N17.030

N17.031 Search for 50 GeV emission from pulsar PSR B1951+32

David Smith (CENBG/IN2P3/CNRS), CELESTE Collaboration

N17.032 Evolution of r-modes in magnetized neutron stars

Draza Markovic, Yun Chen, Frederick Lamb (University of Illinois)

N17.033 Stability of the lattice formed in first-order phase transitions to matter containing strangeness in protoneutron stars.

J.J. Zach (The Ohio State University)

N17.034 Astrophysics: Supernova Remnants and Interstellar Medium

N17.035 A Central Source in the Supernova Remnant Kes 79

F. Seward, P. Slane, R. Smith, M. Sun (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

N17.036 Chandra view of SNR Kes 79

Ming Sun, Frederick Seward, Randall Smith, Patrick Slane (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

N17.037 CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF THE SYNCHROTRON NEBULA IN MSH15-56

Paul P. Plucinsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), John R. Dickel (University of Illinois), Patrick O. Slane, Richard J. Edgar, Terrance J. Gaetz, Randall K. Smith (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

N17.038 Chandra Observation of the Eastern Limb of the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant

Terrance J. Gaetz, Richard J. Edgar, Paul P. Plucinsky, John C. Raymond, Andrew H. Szentgyorgyi (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), William P. Blair (Johns Hopkins University)

N17.039 A New Look at N103B with the Chandra HETGS

Joshua Migliazzo, Claude Canizares, Daniel Dewey, Katherine Flanagan, Thomas Pannuti, Amy Fredericks (Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

N17.040 A Search for Non-Thermal X-ray Emission from Galactic Supernova Remnants

Thomas Pannuti, Glenn Allen (MIT Center for Space Research)

N17.041 A High-resolution Study of Nonthermal Emission from the SNR G347.3-0.5

Jasmina Lazendic, Patrick Slane, Bryan Gaensler, Paul Plucinsky (CfA), John Hughes (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University)

N17.042 Search for Fallback Disks in Young Supernova Remnants

Zhongxiang Wang, Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)

N17.043 TeV Gamma Rays from the Crab.

Hugh Tornabene (University of Maryland System)

N17.044 Voyager Observations of Diffuse Ultraviolet Light Shortward of Lyman \alpha

Richard Conn Henry (Maryland Space Grant Consortium and Johns Hopkins University), Jayant Murthy (Indian Institute of Astrophysics), Jay B. Hoberg (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona)

N17.045 Internal equilibration of a nucleus with metastable states

Sanjib Gupta (Clemson Univerity)

N17.046 Astrophysics: Gamma Ray Bursts

N17.047 Evidence for a 1.7s Oscillation in GRB011121

James Terrell (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

N17.048 Rapid Response Astronomy Using the Swift GRB Explorer

Margaret Chester, John Nousek (Pennsylvania State University), Neil Gehrels, Frank Marshall (NASA/GSFC), Swift Team

N17.049 The Interplanetary GRB Network in 2002

T. L. Cline, S. D. Barthelmy (NASA's GSFC), K. C. Hurley (SSL, UCB), D. Anfimov, I. Mitrofanov (IKI), S. Golenetskii, E. Mazets (Ioffe PTI), G. Crew, G. Ricker (MIT), F. Frontera (ITSRE, CNR), E. Montanari, C. Guidorzi (U Ferrara), M. Feroci (IAS, CNR)

N17.050 The Host Galaxy of the Reshift 4.5 Gamma-Ray Burst GRB000131

Derek Fox, Joshua Bloom, Paul Price, Shrinivas Kulkarni (Caltech)

N17.051 Ground Trigger Searches with HETE using Wavelets

Nathaniel Butler (MIT CSR), CESR Team, RIKEN Team, HETE Operations Team

N17.052 X-ray afterglow from GRB011211 as observed with XMM-Newton.

Konstantin Borozdin, Sergey Trudolyubov (both - Los Alamos National Laboratory)

N17.053 Imaging performance of the HETE Soft X-ray Camera

Glen Monnelly, Geoff Crew, John Doty (MIT), Garrett Jernigan (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Al Levine, Gregory Prighozin, George Ricker, Roland Vanderspek, Joel Villasenor (MIT)

N17.054 Shocks amp; Velocity Fluctuations in Collapsar Jets

Enrique Gomez, Philip Hardee (The University of Alabama)

N17.055 Kinematics of Gamma-ray Burst Lightcurves with Structured Jets

Jay Salmonson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

N17.056 Changing Vacuum inside Stars as a Possible Inner Engine of Gamma Bursts

Igor Yu. Sokolov (Clarkson Univeristy)

N17.057 Spectral and Temporal Evoluton of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Edison Liang, Dan Kocevski, Markus Boettcher (Rice University)

N17.058 Astrophysics: High Mass X-Ray Binaries, Catacylsmic Variables and Sources in Dense Clusters

N17.059 The nature of the X-ray emission in the Be star 1H1249-637

Jose M. Torrejon (University of Alicante), Astrid Orr (Astrophysics Division, ESTEC), Guillermo Bernabeu (University of Alicante)

N17.060 Chandra Grating Spectroscopy of 4U 1700-37 in a Flaring State

Bram Boroson (The Claremont Colleges), Tim Kallman (NASA GSFC), Saeqa Dil Vrtilek (SAO)

N17.061 Monte Carlo Cyclotron Line Shapes and Fits to RXTE Accreting Pulsar Spectra

Wayne Coburn (UCB/SSL), Rafael Araya-Góchez (), Peter Kretschmar (ISDC/MPE), Ingo Kreykenbohm, Jörn Wilms, Rüdiger Staubert (IAAT), William Heindl, Richard Rothschild (UCSD/CASS)

N17.062 Upper Limits on Cyclotron Lines in Accreting Pulsar Spectra

Wayne Coburn (UCB/SSL), William Heindl, Richard Rothschild (UCSD/CASS), Ingo Kreykenbohm, Jörn Wilms, Rüdiger Staubert (IAAT), Peter Kretschmar (ISDC/MPE)

N17.063 Phase Resolved Spectroscopy of the Multiple Cyclotron Line Pulsar 4U~0115+63

William Heindl (UCSD/CASS), Wayne Coburn (UCB/SSL), Peter Kretschmar (ISDC/MPE), Ingo Kreykenbohm, Jörn Wilms, Rüdiger Staubert (IAAT)

N17.064 RXTE Study of the HMXB Pulsar KS1947+300

Alan Levine, Duncan Galloway, Edward Morgan (M.I.T. Center for Space Research)

N17.065 An Asymmetric Emission Model for Pulsar Accretion Columns

Denis Leahy (University of Calgary)

N17.066 USA and RXTE Observations of SMC X-1

Michael Wolff (Naval Research Laboratory), USA Collaboration

N17.067 SMC X-1: A Flaring X-ray Pulsar

Dae-Sik Moon, Stephen Eikenberry (Astronomy Department, Cornell University)

N17.068 Activity Cycles of the X-ray Pulsars in the SMC

Robin Corbet (NASA GSFC/USRA), Silas Laycock, Malcolm Coe (Southampton University), Francis Marshall (NASA GSFC), James Lochner (NASA GSFC/USRA)

N17.069 Resolving the Effects of Resonant X-ray Line Scattering in Cen X-3

Patrick Wojdowski, Duane Liedahl, Chris Mauche (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Masao Sako, Steven Kahn, Frits Paerels (Columbia University)

N17.070 New X-ray Spectra of SS 433

Julie Kane, Herman Marshall, Norbert Schulz, Claude Canizares (MIT Center for Space Research)

N17.071 Interstellar Absorption Lines in X-ray Binaries

Saeqa Vrtilek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Bram Boroson (Claremont University)

N17.072 Chandra's View of Luminous Supersoft X-Ray Sources in M31

Rosanne Di Stefano (CfA), Jochen Greiner (AIP, Potsdam), Albert Kong, M.R. Garcia, F.A. Primini (Cfa), Pauline Barmby, S.S. Murray (CfA), Shannon Curry (Tufts University)

N17.073 XMM Observation of N LMC 1995, a bright supersoft X-ray source

Marina Orio (INAF-Torino, Italy amp; University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Jochen Greiner (MPE, Garching bei Muenchen, FRG), Martin Still

N17.074 X-ray emission from the boundary layer in disk-accreting CVs

Dirk Pandel, France Cordova (UC Santa Barbara)

N17.075 X-ray spectra and QPO's observed in the low hard states of GRS1915+105

R.B. Fiorito (Catholic University of America), C.B. Markwardt (University of Maryland, NASA/GSFC), J.H. Swank (NASA/GSFC)

N17.076 Evidence for Harmonic Relationships in the High Frequency QPOs of XTEJ1550-564 and GROJ1655-40

Ronald Remillard (M.I.T), Michael Muno (M.I.T.), Jeffrey McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Jerome Orosz (Utrecht University)

N17.077 Spectral and Temporal Evolution of XTE J1859+226

Jean Swank (NASA/GSFC), Craig Markwardt (UMD and NASA/GSFC), Warren Focke (SLAC)

N17.078 Gamma-Ray Variability of Cygnus X-1

Mark McConnell, James Ryan (University of New Hampshire), Andrzej Zdziarski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center), Kevin Bennett (Astrophysics Division, ESTEC), Hans Bloemen, Wim Hermsen, Lucien Kuiper (SRON - Utrecht), Werner Collmar, Volker Schoenfelder, Helmut Steinle, Andrew Strong (MPE), William Paciesas (University of Alabama - Huntsville), Bernard Phlips (Naval Research Laboratory), Juri Poutanen (University of Oulu, Finland)

N17.079 Broad-Band RXTE/OSSE Observations of Cygnus X-1

Paolo Coppi (Yale University), Thomas Maccarone (SISSA (Trieste))

N17.080 Studying the warm layer and the hardening factor in Cygnus x-1

Yangsen Yao, ShuangNan Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yuxin Feng (UAH)

N17.081 Chandra Observations of Cygnus X-1 at Different Spectral States and Different Orbital Phases

Yuxin Feng, Shuang Nan Zhang (Dept. of Physics, UAH; NSSTC), Wei Cui (Dept. of Physics, Purdue Univ.), N.S. Schulz (Center for Space Research, MIT)

N17.082 Multi-dimensional Monte Carlo Simulation of High Energy Emissions from Galactic Black Holes

Edison Liang, Markus Boettcher (Rice University)

N17.083 Inclination Angles of Black Hole X-ray Binaries Manifest Strong Gravity around Black Holes

S.N. Zhang (Phys. Dept., UAH; Space Science Department, NASA/MSFC), Xiaoling Zhang, Yangsen Yao (Physics Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville)

N17.084 Constraints on Accretion Scenarios using X-ray Measurements of the Black Hole Candidate OGLE-1999-BUL-32

Przemyslaw Wozniak, Thomas Vestrand (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

N17.085 How do the relativistic effects affect the appearance of a clothed black hole?

XiaoLing Zhang (Physics Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville), S.N. Zhang (Phys. Dept., UAH; Space Science Department, NASA/MSFC), Yuxin Feng, Yangsen Yao (Physics Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville)

N17.086 X-ray Spectroscopy of Her X-1 and the Detection of CNO-processed Material

Mario Jimenez-Garate (MIT), Charles Hailey (Columbia University), Jan Willem den Herder (Space Research Organization of the Netherlands), Silvia Zane, Gavin Ramsay (University College of London)

N17.087 HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF WINDS IN GALACTIC X-RAY SOURCES

Norbert Schulz, Claude Canizares, Julia Lee, Patrick Wojdowski (MIT), William Brandt (PSU)

N17.088 Strongly absorbed quiescent X-ray emission from the X-ray transient XTE J0421+56

Laurence Boirin, Arvind Parmar, David Lumb (ESA / ESTEC / RSSD, Postbus 299, NL-2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands), Mauro Orlandini (Istituto Tecnologie e Studio Radiazioni Extraterrestri, CNR, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy), Norbert Schartel (XMM-Newton Science Operation Center, Vilspa, Spain)

N17.089 Radio Observations of Cygnus X-3 after Large Radio Flare in September 2001

Amy Mioduszewski, Michael Rupen, Vivek Dhawan (NRAO, P.O. Box 0, Socorro NM 87801 U.S.A.)

N17.090 Neutron Associated Radiation as a Probe of High Energy Processes in X-Ray Binaries

W. Thomas Vestrand (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

N17.091 BATSE SOFT GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF GROJ0422+32

James C. Ling (JPL/Caltech), William A. Wheaton (IPAC/Caltech)

N17.092 Astrophysics: Low Maxx X-Ray Binaries

N17.093 On the Correlation between 45 Hz QPO and NBO on the Normal Branch in Sco X-1

Wenfei Yu, Michiel van der Klis (Univeristy of Amsterdam)

N17.094 Discovery of the Millisecond Pulsar in 4U 1636-53 During a Superburst

Tod Strohmayer (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

N17.095 Spectral and Timing Properties of the Low-mass X-ray Binary 4U 0614+09 with XMM-Newton

Mariano Mendez (SRON, The Netherlands), Jean Cottam (CAL, NASA/GSFC), Frits Paerels (Columbia University)

N17.096 Millisecond Oscillations in Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts

Michael Muno, Deepto Chakrabarty, Duncan Galloway (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

N17.097 Studies of the Spectral and Timing Evolution of XTE J1550-564

Kaice Reilly (Stanford University (SLAC)), Lev Titarchuk, Kent Wood, Paul S. Ray (Naval Research Laboratory), USA Science Working Group Collaboration

N17.098 High Resolution Spectroscopy of 4U 1626-67 with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer onboard the XMM-Newton Observatory

Jean Cottam (NASA/GSFC, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory), Mariano Mendez (Space Research Organization of the Netherlands)

N17.099 Eclipse Observations of EXO0748-676 and X1658-298 with USA and RXTE

Paul L. Hertz (NASA HQ), Michael T. Wolff, Paul S. Ray, Kent S. Wood (NRL), Alan P. Smale (GSFC/USRA), Reba M. Bandyopadhyay (Oxford University)

N17.100 On neutron star mass-radius relation and distance determination for Cyg X-2: RXTE observations and theory

Lev Titarchuk (GMU/NRL/GSFC), Nickolai Shaposhnikov (GMU/SCHOOL OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES)

N17.101 What is Circinus X-1?

P.M. Saz Parkinson, E. Bloom, W. Focke, B. Giebels, G. Godfrey, K.T. Reilly, G. Shabad (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309), K.S. Wood, P.S. Ray, R.M. Bandyopadhyay, M.T. Wolff, G. Fritz, P. Hertz, M.P. Kowalski, M.N. Lovellette, D. Yentis (E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375), J. Scargle (NASA / Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035)

N17.102 X-Ray Nova Light Curves

Chris Shrader (Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics, NASA/GSFC), Lev Titarchuk (George Mason Universtiy)

N17.103 SAX J1711.6-3808: a faint X-ray transient harboring a black hole?

Jean in 't Zand (Utrecht University and Space Research Organization Netherlands [UU and SRON]), Craig Markwardt (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center [NASA-GSFC]), Maria Santos-Lleo (XMM-Newton Science Operations Center), Angela Bazzano (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale [CNR-IAS]), Massimo Cocchi (IAS-CNR), Remon Cornelisse (UU and SRON), John Heise (SRON and UU), Erik Kuulkers (UU and SRON), Lorenzo Natalucci (IAS-CNR), Celia Sanchez-Fernandez (Laboratorio de Astrofisica Espacial y Fisica Fundamental [LAEFF-INTA]), Jean Swank (NASA-GSFC), Pietro Ubertini (IAS-CNR)

N17.104 The Black Hole X-ray Nova XTE J1650-500: Chandra, XMM-Newton, and RXTE Results

Jon Miller, Rudy Wijnands (MIT), Andrew Fabian (Univ. of Cambridge), Michiel van der Klis (Univ. of Amsterdam), Herman Marshall (MIT), Paul Groot (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Bryan Gaensler (Harvard), Phil Charles (Univ. of Southampton), Robert Fender (Univ. of Amsterdam), Tiziana Di Matteo (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), David Pooley, Walter Lewin (MIT)

N17.105 Understanding the X-ray Contribution from Jets in X-ray Binaries

Sera Markoff, Heino Falcke (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie), Rob Fender (Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek", U Amsterdam)

N17.106 Strongly Magnetized Accretion Disks with Supersonic Turbulence

Eric Blackman, Vladimir Pariev (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester), Stas Boldyrev (Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB)

N17.107 Super-Eddington accretion disks in the flux-limited diffusion case

Mateusz Ruszkowski (JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder), Mitchell Begelman (JILA and APS, University of Colorado at Boulder)

N17.108 The Spectral Properties of LMXBs in Early-type Galaxies

Jimmy Irwin, Alex Athey, Joel Bregman (University of Michigan), Craig Sarazin (University of Virginia)

N17.109 X-ray sources in the bulge and inner disk of M31

Sergey Trudolyubov, Konstantin Borozdin, William Priedhorsky, Robert Shirey (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Keith Mason, Roberto Soria (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK), Julian Osborne, Mike Watson (University of Leicester, UK)

N17.110 Chandra Observation of the "Einstein Cross" Quasar 2237+0305

X. Dai, G. Chartas, G. P. Garmire (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University), E. Agol (Physics and Astronomy Department, Johns Hopkins University), M. W. Bautz (Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

N17.111 Post-Deadline Posters

N17.112 STACEE OBSERVATIONS OF EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES

R. Mukherjee (Barnard College and Columbia University), L.M. Boone (University of California, Santa Cruz), D. Bramel (Columbia University), C.E. Covault (Case Western Reserve University), P. Fortin (McGill University), D. Gingrich (University of Alberta), D. Hanna (McGill University), J.A. Hinton (University of Chicago), C. Mueller (McGill University), R.A. Ong (University of California, Los Angeles), K. Ragan (McGill University), R.A. Scalzo (University of Chicago), D.R. Schuette (University of California, Los Angeles), D.A. Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz)

N17.113 Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP Asymmetries in Charmless Two-Body B Decays into Pions and Kaons.

Federico Colechia (INFN Sezione di Padova), BABAR Collaboration

N17.114 Measurement of the ^8B Neutrino Spectrum with a New Technique

W.T. Winter (UCB/LBNL), K.E. Rehm, C.L. Jiang, I. Ahmad (ANL), S.J. Freedman (UCB/LBNL), J. Greene, A. Heinz, D. Henderson, R.V.F. Janssens, E.F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, R.C. Pardo (ANL), M. Paul (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), T. Pennington, G. Savard, J.P. Schiffer, D. Seweryniak, G. Zinkann (ANL)

N17.115 Optical Stochastic Cooling with CO2 Lasers

Ilan Ben-Zvi, Igor Pogorelsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY 11973 USA), Alexander Zholents, Alexander Zholents, Max Zolotarev (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA), Botha L. (SDI Inc., South Africa)

N17.116 Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

G. Weidenspointner, M.J. Harris (USRA and NASA GSFC), C. Ferguson, N. Diallo, A.J. Dean (University of Southampton), S.J. Sturner (USRA and NASA GSFC), B.J. Teegarden (NASA GSFC)

N17.117 A Chandra survey of X-ray weak quasars

Guido Risaliti (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

N17.118 The Quasi-Coherent Oscillations of SS Cygni in the Ultraviolet, Extreme-Ultraviolet, and Soft X-rays

Christopher W. Mauche (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

N17.119 Top Physics at ATLAS

Pierrrick Roy (Clermont-Ferrand, France)