Aavso paper Session I sunday Sunday, May 22, 2011, 9: 30 am – 12: 00 pm

Schedule ii

Abstracts 1

Author Index 367

Schedule

Saturday
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM……………………………………………………… …1

AAVSO Paper Session I………………………………………………………………………1

Sunday

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM…………………………………………………………4

AAVSO Paper Session II…………………………………………………………...…………4
Sunday, May 22, 2011, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM………………………………………………. ………….7 HAD I: Women in the History of Variable Star Astronomy………………………………….7

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 3:20 PM – 5:30 PM…………………………………………………………..9

HAD II: Variable Star Astronomy in Theory and Practice……………………………….......9

Monday

Monday, May 23, 2011, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM………………………………………………………..12

Stellar Evolution, Stellar Populations……………………………………………………….12

AAVSO Poster Sessions…………………………………………………………………….15

Supernovae, Planetary Nebulae, Evolved Stars, Cataclysmic Variable, Novae…………….19

Extrasolar Planets: Detections and Characterization………………………………………..26

Molecular Clouds, HII Regions, Intersellar Medium and Dust……………………………..31

Galactic & Extra-Galactic Star Formation…………………………………………………..43

Computation, Data Handling, Image Analysis……………………………………………...48

Instrumentation: Ground Based or Airborn…………………………………………………51

Star Clusters and Associations – Galactic & Extra-galactic………………………………...59

Laboratory Astrophysics and Catalogs………………………………………………………64

Monday, May 23, 2011, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM………………………………………………………..70

Welcoming Address…………………………………………………………………………70

Monday, May 23, 2011, 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM……………………………………………………….71

Kavli Lecture: The 2050 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics………………...71

Monday, May 23, 2011, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM………………………………………………….....72
12-Years of Science with Chandra: Chandra Observations of the Solar System……………72

AAVSO: Astrophysics with Small Telescopes……………………………………………...74

“New Worlds, New Horizons": The Science of Astro2010…………………………………76

Spiral Galaxies, Computation, Data Handling, Image Analysis & Other Topics…………...78

Black Holes……………………………………………………………………………….….81

The Galactic Center……………………………………………………………………….…84

Monday, May 23, 2011, 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM……………………………………………………..89

Stars, Planets and The Weather: If You Don't Like It Wait 5 Billion Years………………...89

Monday, May 23, 2011, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM………………………………………………………...90

12-Years of Science with Chandra: The X-ray Life of Star…………………………………90

Nuclear Physics I – Stellar Nucleosynthesis…………………………………………………91

Searching for Exoplanets with Kepler……………………………………………………….92

Early Science From Pan-STARRS 1………………………………………………………...96

AAVSO: Variable Stars in the Imaging Era………………………………………………...101

Hard X-ray Surveys of AGN………………………………………………………………..103

Astronomy Unexpected! Innovative Strategies for Reaching Non-Traditional Student…..105
Rembering John Huchra…………………………………………………………………...107

Monday, May 23, 2011, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM………………………………………………………108

Stellar Astrophysics from the Kepler Mission…………………………………………….108

Monday, May 23, 2011, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM………………………………………………………109

Evolution of Galaxies I…………………………………………………………………….109

Dark Matter & Dark Energy/Large Scale Structures, Cosmic Distance Scale…………….111

Stars, Dwarfs, Stellar, Circumstellar Disks………………………………………………..113

Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries……………………………………………………116

Quasars, AGN, Starbursts, and SEDs……………………………………………………...119

Tuesday

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM……………………………………………………...123

The Sun and The Solar System…………………………………………………………….123

Circumstellar Disks………………………………………………………………………...132

Young Stellar Objects, Very Young Stars, T-Tauri Stars, H-H Objects…………………...135

Results From Kepler………………………………………………………………………..139

12-Years of Science with Chandra…………………………………………………………142

Black Holes…………………………………………………………………………………154

Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries…………………………………………………….158

The Milky Way, the Galactic Center……………………………………………………….163

Pulsars, Neutron Stars and Related Topics…………………………………………………165

Cosmology………………………………………………………………………………….166

Dark Matter & Dark Energy/Large Scale Structures, Cosmic Distance Scale……………..168

Relativistic Astrophysics, Gravitational Lenses & Waves………………………………....170

Galaxy Clusters……………………………………………………………………………..172

Gamma Ray Bursts…………………………………………………………………………174

Evolution of Galaxies………………………………………………………………………174

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 8:30 AM – 9:20 AM……………………………………………………...177

The Pan-STARRS Wide-Field Imaging Survey…………………………………………....177

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM …………………………………………………..178

12-Years of Science with Chandra: SNR and Compact Objects…………………………...178