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219Th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society 219TH MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 8-12 JANUARY 2012 AUSTIN, TX All scientific sessions will be held at the: Austin Convention Center COUNCIL .......................... 2 500 East Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78701-4121 EXHIBITORS ..................... 4 AAS Paper Sorters ATTENDEE SERVICES .......................... 9 Tom Armstrong, Blaise Canzian, Thayne Curry, Shantanu Desai, Aaron Evans, Nimish P. Hathi, SCHEDULE .....................15 Jason Jackiewicz, Sebastien Lepine, Kevin Marvel, Karen Masters, J. Allyn Smith, Joseph Tenn, SATURDAY .....................25 Stephen C. Unwin, Gerritt Vershuur, Joseph C. Weingartner, Lee Anne Willson SUNDAY..........................28 Session Numbering Key MONDAY ........................36 90s Sunday TUESDAY ........................91 100s Monday WEDNESDAY .............. 146 200s Tuesday 300s Wednesday THURSDAY .................. 199 400s Thursday AUTHOR INDEX ........ 251 Sessions are numbered in the Program Book by day and time. Please note, posters are only up for the day listed. Changes after 7 December 2011 are only included in the online program materials. 1 AAS Officers & Councilors President (6/2010-6/2013) Debra Elmegreen Vassar College Vice President (6/2009-6/2012) Lee Anne Willson Iowa State Univ. Vice President (6/2010-6/2013) Nicholas B. Suntzeff Texas A&M Univ. Vice President (6/2011-6/2014) Edward B. Churchwell Univ. of Wisconsin Secretary (6/2010-6/2013) G. Fritz Benedict Univ. of Texas, Austin Treasurer (6/2008-6/2014) Hervey (Peter) Stockman STScI Education Officer (6/2006-6/2012) Timothy F. Slater Univ. of Wyoming Publications Board Chair (6/2011-6/2015) Anne P. Cowley Arizona State Univ. Executive Officer (6/2006-Present) Kevin Marvel AAS Councilors Richard G. French Wellesley College (6/2009-6/2012) James D. Lowenthal Smith College (6/2009-6/2012) Jennifer Wiseman NASA GSFC (6/2009-6/2012) Edward F. Guinan Villanova Univ. (6/2010-6/2013) Patricia Knezek NOAO/WIYN Observatory (6/2010-6/2013) Bruce Balick Univ. of Washington (6/2011-6/2014) Eileen D. Friel Boston Univ. (6/2011-6/2014) Angela Speck Univ. of Missouri (6/2011-6/2014) Press officers Press Officer (1/2010-Present) Rick Fienberg AAS Deputy Press Officer Inge Heyer Univ. of Wyoming Deputy Press Officer Larry Marschall Gettysburg College 2 Sponsors Anonymous Donor in Memory of Colleagues We All Miss UNDERGRADUATE ORIENTATION SPONSORS Astrobites Boston University Brigham Young University Caltech Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Pennsylvania State University Rutgers University Society of Physics Students Tufts University University of Colorado at Boulder University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Texas, Austin University of Virginia University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 3 EXHIBITORS 201 American Astronomical Society (AAS) 304 AAS Journals: ApJ, AJ, ApJS, ApJLetters 307 Apogee Imaging Systems 137 Arecibo Observatory 215 Asahi Spectra Co., Ltd. 424 Associated Universities, Inc. 111 Astro Haven 116 ASTRON 230 AURA 107 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation 100 Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning 204 Cambridge University Press 426 CARMA: Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy 301 CHANDRA X-ray Center 115 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science 337 Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. 103 e2v aerospace and defense inc. 514 Elsevier 210 Eureka Scientific, Inc. 419 Fermi/Swift 212 Gemini Observatory/AURA 113 Giant Magellan Telescope 231 Herschel Space Observatory 325 Historical Astronomy Division 105 IAU XXVIII General Assembly 306 IOP Publishing 327 LCOGT.net 205 Lockheed Martin 224 LSST Corporation 139 McDonald Observatory 512 Microsoft Research 331 NASA 119 NASA ADS 219 NASA Exoplanets: ExEP, NExScI, Kepler, WFIRST 227 NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) 413 NASA Lunar Science Institute 234 National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) 319 National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) 218 National Science Foundation 131 Northrop Grumman 406 Pearson 310 Physics of the Cosmos & Cosmic Origins 124 PlaneWave Instruments 211 Princeton University Press 121 SIMBAD 125 Sloan Digital Sky Survey III 330 Space Science Institute 311 Space Telescope Science Institute 104 SPIE 237 Spitzer Science Center/Infrared Science Archive/IPAC EPO 400 Springer 122 Submillimeter Array 213 The National Academies (National Research Council) 326 TMT Observatory Corp 110 University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy Pan-STARRS 407 USRA/SOFIA 404 Virtual Astronomical Observatory 200 W.H. Freeman 202 W.W. Norton, Inc. 101 Wiley-Blackwell 102 WISE Mission 4 Exhibit Hall 5 1st Floor 6 3rd Floor 7 4th Floor 8 Attendee Services For everyone’s protection, please wear your badge at all times during the meeting. Registration Atrium Sunday: 3:00pm-8:00pm Monday: 7:30am-5:00pm Tuesday-Wednesday: 8:00am-5:00pm Thursday: 8:00am-4:00pm Exhibit Hall You must have your badge to enter the Exhibit Hall. Monday-Wednesday: 9:00am-6:30pm Thursday: 9:00am-2:00pm Please do not leave personal items unattended. The AAS is not responsible for lost or stolen property. Posters not removed by closing times will be discarded. The Exhibit Hall CLOSES at 2:00pm on Thursday. Exhibit Hall Events Evening Poster Session with cash bar Monday-Wednesday, 5:30pm-6:30pm Poster Session Thursday, 1:00pm-2:00pm Speaker Ready Room Room 11 Sunday: 3:00pm-5:00pm Monday-Wednesday: 7:30am-4:00pm Thursday: 7:30am-2:00pm 9 Cyber Café Atrium Monday-Wednesday: 8:00am-6:30pm Thursday: 8:00am-4:00pm If there is a line for computers, please limit your time to 15 minutes. Absolutely no food or drink is permitted in the Cyber Café. Using Your Own Laptop While At The Meeting • All devices are required to be running the most up-to-date virus protection and spyware protection. • No device should be running as a server for offsite clients. • Absolutely no routers can be attached to the network without prior authorization from the AAS IT Staff. • The network will be monitored throughout the Meeting and the AAS Staff reserves the right to disconnect any device that is causing network problems. • Wireless will be available throughout the entire meeting space although some areas may experience limited connectivity. To access the Internet through the AAS wireless network, users will need to connect to any of the AAS access points and log in with the username and password printed on the back of your badge. Please note that the wireless network is not encrypted. Career Center Exhibit Hall Monday-Wednesday: 9:00am-6:00pm Thursday: 9:00am-1:00pm Donor Lounge Room 10C Attendance by Invitation Only Monday-Wednesday: 7:30am-5:30pm Thursday: 7:30am-4:00pm Concession Stand Exhibit Hall Monday-Wednesday: 10:30am-2:30pm 10 Prize Winners Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize The Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, established through the support of his father, John Doxsey, and other friends, family, and colleagues, provides graduate students within one year of receiving or receipt of their PhD a monetary prize to enable the oral presentation of their dissertation research at an AAS meeting. Doxsey Prize Winners Sarah Ballard Harvard University (414.06D) Jonathan C. Bird Ohio State University (114.03D) Geoffrey MathewsA University of Hawaii (327.04D) A B Ashley PagnottaB Louisiana State University (418.08D) Adric R. RiedelC Georgia State University (313.04D) Barbara Denisse Rojas Ayala Cornell University & American Museum of Natural History (330.03D) C D Sumin TangD Harvard University (104.04D) Gail ZasowskiE University of Virginia (137.04D) Doxsey Prize - Runner-up Antonela MonachesiF E F University of Michigan (230.05D) Mubdi RahmanG University of Toronto (137.03D) Izaskun San Roman University of Florida (123.04D) Erik J. TollerudH University of California, Irvine (201.04D) G H 11 A GUIDE TO AAS MEETING ETIQUETTE AAS meetings are the largest and most logistically complex astronomy meetings in the world. We ask all attendees to work together to enhance the value of the meetings by keeping in mind the following points. 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