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Poster Presentations
Non-axisymmetric Instabilities in Core Collapse Supernovae
Shizuka Akiyama, University of Texas at Austin
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The H II Region of the First Star
Marcelo A. Alvarez, University of Texas at Austin
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Dwarf Galaxies over the last 2 Gyr
Fabio D. Barazza, University of Texas at Austin
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TEXES Observations of Molecular Hydrogen Emission from AB Aur
Martin A. Bitner, University of Texas at Austin
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Low Resolution Phase Resolved Spectra of Polars
Ryan K. Campbell, New Mexico State University
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Weak-line T Tauri Star Disks in the Spitzer c2d Survey of Molecular Clouds: New Constraint on the Timescale for Terrestrial Planet Building
Lucas A. Cieza, University of Texas at Austin
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One of the central goals of the Spitzer Legacy Project "From Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks" (c2d)
is to determine the frequency of remnant circumstellar disks around weak-line T Tauri stars (wTTs) and to study
the properties and evolutionary status of these disks. Here we report on disk frequency in a sample of over 200
spectroscopically identified wTTs in the c2d IRAC and MIPS maps of the Ophiuchus Lupus and Perseus Molecular
Clouds. We find that ~20 % of the wTTs in the sample have noticeable IR-excesses indicating the presence of a
circumstellar disk. From their location in the H-R diagram we find that the stars with excess belong to the younger
part of the age distribution. Still up to 50% of the apparently youngest stars in the sample show no evidence of IR
excess. This suggests that the circumstellar disks of an important fraction of pre-main-sequence stars dissipate
on a timescale of ~1 Myr. We also find that none of the stars older than ~10 Myrs in our sample have detectable
circumstellar disks. This age for the oldest stars with presumably primordial disks is very similar to that presented
by Strom et al. (1989) over fifteen years ago based on K-band identified inner disks (r≤0.1 AU). However, since Spitzer
observations probe the terrestrial planet-forming region of the disk (r~1 AU) and are capable of detecting IR excesses
produced by very small amounts of dust these results provide much stronger constraints on the time available for the
formation of terrestrial planets than those provided by previous studies based on detections of disks in the near-IR.
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The Mass Assembly History of Galaxies
Niv Drory, University of Texas at Austin
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Is Sersic Index a Good Pseudobulge Diagnostic?
David B. Fisher, University of Texas at Austin
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The Dark Halo in NGC 821
Amy D. Forestell, University of Texas at Austin
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Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Red 2MASS AGN
Lei Hao, Cornell University
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White Dwarfs and Stellar Evolution
Jason S. Kalirai, University of California at Santa Cruz
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Cosmological Implications of a Solid Upper Mass Limit Placed on DFSZ Axions Thanks To Pulsating White Dwarfs
Agnes B. Kim, University of Texas at Austin
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Ice Absorption toward Background Stars
Claudia Knez, University of Texas at Austin
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Hi-Resolution Spectroscopy of a Volume-Limited Hipparcos Sample within 100 pc
Pey Lian Lim, New Mexico State University
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Low Carbon limits in Type Ia Supernovae
Howie Marion, University of Texas at Austin
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Modeling Swift GRB Prompt Gamma-ray Emissions
Erin M. McMahon, University of Texas at Austin
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Solving the Riddle of Convection with Pulsating White Dwarfs
Michael H. Montgomery, University of Texas at Austin
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Stellar Populations in Bulges of Spiral Galaxies
Bhasker K. Moorthy, New Mexico State University
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Searching for Planets around Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
Fergal Mullally, University of Texas at Austin
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Evidence for a Black Hole in the center of Omega-Cen
Eva Noyola, University of Texas at Austin
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Texas Supernova Search: A Wide Field Search for Nearby Supernovae
Robert M. Quimby, University of Texas at Austin
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Photometry of Near Earth Asteroids at McDonald Observatory
Judit Györgyey Ries, University of Texas at Austin
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The Black Hole-Bulge Relationship for QSOs in the SDSS DR3
Sarah B. Salviander, University of Texas at Austin
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Double-Barred Galaxies in N-body Simulations
Juntai Shen, University of Texas at Austin
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The Extended Structure of the Leo II dSph Galaxy
Michael H. Siegel, University of Texas at Austin
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White Dwarf Mode Identifications and Line Shape Variations
Susan E. Thompson, Colorado College
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Modeling Star Formation with Dust
Andrea Urban, University of Texas at Austin
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