General Astrophysics and Compact Objects

Presentations

• The Physics of Stars

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 11:30 AM – May 5, 2009, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • W. David Arnett

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• Black hole spacetimes and pulsar timing

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 11:42 AM – May 5, 2009, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Price

    • University of Texas at Brownsville

  • Teviet Creighton

    • University of Texas at Brownsville

  • Fredrick Jenet

    • University of Texas at Brownsville

  • Yan Wang

    • UTB and Nanjing University

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• Magnetohydrodynamic Bondi--Hoyle Accretion

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 11:54 AM – May 5, 2009, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Andrew Penner

    • University of British Columbia

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• 3D-Spirals Emerging from Plasma Disks and High Frequency QPOs*

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 12:06 PM – May 5, 2009, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • O. Ohia

    • MIT
    • ENEA

  • B. Coppi

    • MIT

  • M. Bursa

    • Prague

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• Kinetic simulations of turbulent magnetic-field growth by streaming cosmic rays

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 12:18 PM – May 5, 2009, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Tom Stroman

    • Iowa State University

  • Martin Pohl

    • Iowa State University

  • Jacek Niemiec

    • Polish Academy of Sciences

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• Effects of recoiling black holes on surrounding disks

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 12:30 PM – May 5, 2009, 12:42 PM

  Authors

  • Miguel Megevand

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001

  • Luis Lehner

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001

  • Matthew Anderson

    • Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

  • Eric Hirschmann

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

  • Steven Liebling

    • Department of Physics, Long Island University--C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY 11548

  • David Neilsen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

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• Measurement of the OH-He and OH-D$_2$ absolute collision cross-sections from 85 to 460 K

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 12:42 PM – May 5, 2009, 12:54 PM

  Authors

  • Benjamin Stuhl

    • JILA / University of Colorado at Boulder and National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Nuclear Bremsstrahlung and Radiation Effects: Implications for Nuclear Engineering and Astrophysics

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 12:54 PM – May 5, 2009, 1:06 PM

  Authors

  • Nie Luo

    • University of Illinois

  • Magdi Ragheb

  • George Miley

  • Barclay Jones

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• Hydrogen and Helium atoms in strong magnetic fields

  ORAL

  May 5, 2009, 1:06 PM – May 5, 2009, 1:18 PM

  Authors

  • Anand Thirumalai

    • University of British Columbia

  • Jeremy Heyl

    • University of British Columbia

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  May 5, 2009, 1:18 PM – May 5, 2009, 1:30 PM

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