AAS Meeting 194 - Press Photos
Chicago, Illinois, 30 May - 3 June 1999
Monday, 31 May 1999
Unusual Objects Discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey II Press Conference
Unusual Objects Discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey II Press Conference
Independent discoveries of free-floating methane brown dwarfs were announced by Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers (left to right) David Golimowski (Johns Hopkins U.), Constance Rockosi (U. of Chicago), Xiaohui Fan (Princeton U.) and (far right) George Djorgovski (CalTech), leader of the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey II.
SETI One Hectare Telescope Press Photo
Jill Tarter and Frank Drake (both SETI Institute) exhibited a unit telescope and feed for the future One Hectare Telescope for SETI and radio astronomy.
The Coming Sunspot Maximum
Solar astronomers are forecasting the sunspot maximum in early 2000 and are preparing to study it, according to (left to right) Craig Deforest (Stanford U.), JoAnne Joselyn (NOAA Space Environment Center), Richard Altrock (Air Force Research Lab), and Richard Canfield (Montana State U.)
Tuesday, 1 June 1999
Starbirth in the Milky Way
Eva Grebel (U. of Washington) reported Hubble Space Telescope observations on NGC 3603 that show the youngest, biggest, and most massive proplyds known.
Eric Feigelson (Pennsylvania State U.) announced the discovery of the "nearest open star cluster found in this century," as revealed by the ROSAT satellite.
Jeff Hester (Arizona State U.) observed a very long protostellar jet in the Trifid nebula.
Wednesday, 2 June 1999
New Developments in Eta Carinae
Spectra of Eta Carinae cover the bulletin board at left. Ted Gull (left, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) and Kris Davidson (right) described recent striking changes in this massive star, recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Debris
Dean Hines (U. of Arizona) reported the discovery of what may be a zodiacal dust belt, possibly due to asteroidal collisions, around the binary star HD98800 Ba + Bb, part of the HD98800 quadruple star system.
Carol Grady (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) reported observations of a dust disk in what appears to be "the analog of a Kuiper Belt" around AB Aurigae.
