Research Catalog

Title

New horizons in astronomy : Frank N. Bash Symposium 2005 : proceedings of a meeting held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 16-18 October 2005 / edited by Sheila J. Kannappan [and others].

Author

Frank N. Bash Symposium (2005 : University of Texas, Austin)

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kannappan, Sheila J. (Sheila Jane)

Description

xvi, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series, 1080-7926 ; v. 352

Uniform Title

Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 352.

Alternative Title

• Frank N. Bash Symposium 2005
• Bash'05

Subject

• Bash, Frank N. > Congresses
• Bash, Frank N
• Astronomy > Congresses
• Astronomy > Research > Congresses
• 39.00 astronomy: general
• Astronomy
• Astronomy > Research
• Sterrenkunde

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Note

• First in a new series of biennial symposiums honoring Frank N. Bash and devoted to the work of young researchers ; 2003 symposium entitled Bashfest 2003. Cf. Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Small bodies in the outer solar system / Scott S. Sheppard -- What do multiple planet systems teach us about planet formation? / Eric B. Ford -- Massive star formation : a tale of two theories / Mark R. Krumholz -- Probing chemistry during star and planet formation / Jacqueline E. Kessler-Silacci -- Dust and gas debris around main sequence stars / Christine H. Chen -- The local interstellar medium / Seth Redfield -- Large scale structures in the interstellar medium / N.M. McClure-Griffiths -- Stellar abundances : recent and foreseeable trends / Carlos Allende Prieto -- Evidence for intermediate mass black holes in ultra-luminous x-ray sources / Jon M. Miller -- Accretion and jets in microquasars and active galactic nuclei / Sera Markoff -- Galactic chemical evolution / Yeshe Fenner -- The N-body approach to disk galaxy evolution / Victor P. Debattista -- Galaxy formation / Eric Gawiser -- The Lyman-[alpha] forest as a cosmological probe / Matteo Viel -- Non-axisymmetric instabilities in core-collapse supernovae / Shizuka Akiyama and J. Craig Wheeler -- Studying distant dwarf galaxies with GEMS and SDSS / Fabio D. Barazza, Shardha Jogee, Hans-Walter Rix, Marco Barden, Eric F. Bell, John A.R. Caldwell, Daniel H. McIntosh, Klaus Meisenheimer, Chien Y. Peng and Christian Wolf -- TEXES observations of molecular hydrogen emission from AB aurigae / Martin A. Bitner, Matthew J. Richter, John H. Lacy, Daniel T. Jaffe, Jacqueline E. Kessler-Silacci, Thomas K. Greathouse and Geoffrey A. Blake -- Spitzer observations of WTTS disks : new constraints on the timescale for planet building / Lucas A. Cieza / The C2D Stars Team -- Is Sersic index a good detector of pseudobulges? / David B. Fisher -- The dark halo in NGC 821 / A.D. Forestell and K. Gebhardt -- Mid-infrared spectroscopy of red 2MASS AGN / Lei Hao, D. Weedman, V. Charmandaris, M.S. Keremedjiev, S.J.U. Higdon and J.R. Houck -- White dwarfs and stellar evolution / J.S. Kalirai -- Cosmological implications of a solid upper mass limit placed on DFSZ axions thanks to pulsating white dwarfs / A. Kim, M.H. Montgomery and D.E. Winget -- Hi-res spectroscopy of a volume-limited Hipparcos sample within 100 parsec / P.L. Lim, J.A. Holtzman, V.V. Smith and K. Cunha -- Mapping convection using pulsating white dwarf stars / M.H. Montgomery -- Searching for planets around pulsating white dwarf stars / F. Mullally, D.E. Winget and S.O. Kepler -- Evidence for an intermediate mass black hole in Omega Centauri / Eva Noyola, Karl Gebhardt and Marcel Bergmann -- Photometry of near earth asteroids at McDonald observatory / J. Gyorgyey Ries, F. Varadi, E.S. Barker and P.J. Shelus -- The black hole mass -- galaxy bulge relationship for QSOs in the SDSS DR3 / S. Salviander, G.A. Shields, K. Gebhardt and E.W. Bonning -- Double barred galaxies in N-body simulations / Juntai Shen and Victor P. Debattista -- Washington photometry and hectochelle spectroscopy of giant stars in the Leo II dSph galaxy / Michael H. Siegel and Steven R. Majewski -- Time series spectroscopy : mode identification of white dwarf stars / Susan E. Thompson -- Modeling star formation with dust / Andrea Urban, Neal J. Evans II, Steven D. Doty and Hugo Martel.

ISBN

• 1583812202
• 9781583812204

LCCN

2006929346

OCLC

• ocm71367879
• 71367879
• SCSB-1407281

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library