Science with Adaptive Optics at the Pasadena AAS Meeting, June 7-11, 2009
Listing of talks and authors, with links to downloadable presentations.
For talks without links, please contact the authors for further
information.
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Abstract Title
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Authors and Institutions
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MONDAY MORNING SESSION 203: Introduction to Adaptive Optics & Black Holes observed with AO
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Introduction to Adaptive Optics
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Claire E. Max (UC Santa Cruz)
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Black Hole Masses in the Largest (M87) and Smallest (Globular Clusters) Systems
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Karl Gebhardt (U. of Texas at Austin)
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Measuring Black Hole Masses in Nearby Galaxies with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
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Claire E. Max (UC Santa Cruz)1
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MONDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 211: Stellar Astronomy with AO
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AO Capabilities at ESO for the User
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Chris Lidman (ESO, Chile)
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Massive Young Stellar Objects
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Robert D. Blum (NOAO)
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Spectral Imaging of T Tauri Star Microjets
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Tracy Beck1, P. J. McGregor2 (1STScI, 2ANU, Australia)
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Keck LGS AO Orbital Monitoring of Brown Dwarf Binaries
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Trent J. Dupuy1, M. C. Liu1, M. J. Ireland2 (1U. of Hawaii, 2U. of Sydney, Australia).
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Very Low Mass Stellar and Brown Dwarf Binaries Observed with Adaptive Optics
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Laird M. Close (Steward Observatory, U of Arizona)
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TUESDAY MORNING SESSION 219: Solar System Studies with AO
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W.M. Keck Observatory Adaptive Optics Science Capabilities
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Peter Wizinowich, R. Campbell (Keck)
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Big Kuiper Belt Objects and Little Satellites
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Michael E. Brown (Caltech)
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Multiple Asteroid Systems: Search Programs and Studies with AO
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Franck Marchis (SETI/UC Berkeley)
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Measuring Atmospheric Dynamics on Titan with AO
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Mate Adamkovics, I. de Pater (UC Berkeley), & M. Hartung (Gemini)
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Titan's Methane Weather
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Henry G. Roe (Lowell Obs.)
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 230: The Search for Exo-planets and Debris Disks with AO
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The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign
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Michael C. Liu (U. of Hawaii)
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Planet Searches via L and M Imaging
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Philip Hinz (U. of Arizona)
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Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799
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Christian Marois (NRC, Hertzberg Inst. Of Astron), B. Macintosh, T. Barman, B. Zuckerman, I. Song, J. Patience, D. Lafreniere, R. Doyon
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A Uniform Analysis of 118 Sun-like Stars with High-Contrast AO Imaging: Long Period Giant Planets are Rare
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Eric Nielsen1, L. M. Close (U. of Arizona)
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The First Spatially Resolved Mid-IR Spectra of Binaries with Adaptive Optics
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Andrew Skemer, L. Close, P. Hinz, W. Hoffmann, J. Males (U. of Arizona), & T. Greene. (NASA Ames)
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Probing Planet Formation with AO Imaging of Circumstellar Debris Disks
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Michael P. Fitzgerald (LLNL)
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WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION 240: Stellar Populations and the Galactic Center with AO
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AO Capabilities at the MMT for the User
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Michael M. Lloyd-Hart (U. of Arizona)1
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AO and the Galactic Center: A Tool and a Laboratory for Fundamental Astrophysics and Galactic Nuclei
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Andrea M. Ghez (UCLA)
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Origin of Young Stars in GC and in M31
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Jessica R. Lu (Caltech), R. Rich & A. M. Ghez (UCLA), K. Matthews (Caltech), K. Gebhardt (U. Texas)
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The Central Regions of M32
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Tim Davidge (HIA, NRC, Canada)
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The Star Formation History of M31
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Knut A. G. Olsen & R. D. Blum (NOAO), A. W. Stephens (Gemini)
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 250: Stellar Populations with AO
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Gemini Observatory Adaptive Optics Instrumentation and Capabilities
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Julian C. Christou (Gemini Observatory)
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Nearby Nuclear Star Clusters
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Anil Seth (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA)
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VLT High Precision Astrometry of Galactic Starburst Clusters
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Wolfgang Brandner1, A. Stolte2 (1MPIA, Germany, 2Univ. of Cologne, Germany)
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Stellar Populations and Super Star Clusters in Nearby Starburst Galaxies
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William D. Vacca (SOFIA-USRA)
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THURSDAY MORNING SESSION 257: Stellar Pops, Galaxies and Cosmo. with AO
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Resolved Stellar Populations within Dwarf Irregular Galaxy KKH 98 from Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
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Jason Melbourne (Caltech)
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Young Massive Star Clusters and Stellar Populations
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Nate McCrady (UCLA)
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High Z Galaxy Kinematics and Star Formation
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N. Forster-Schreiber, Erin K. Hicks, R. Genzel, N. Bouch, P. Buschkamp, G. Cresci, R. Davies, F. Eisenhauer, S. Genel, K. L. Shapiro, D. Lutz, L. Tacconi MPIE-TP, Germany.
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Keck LGSAO Imaging and Spectroscopy of Massive Passively Evolving Galaxies at z ~ 2.5
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Alan N. Stockton (University of Hawaii)
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Stellar Velocity Dispersion Measurement of a Luminous Quasar Host with Gemini North LGSAO
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Linda C. Watson1 (1Ohio State University)
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