Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 23, Octubre 2005

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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The Ninth Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics

San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 13-16, 2005
Proceedings Editors: S. Torres-Peimbert & G. MacAlpine

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THIS ISSUE IN ADS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
S. Torres-Peimbert & G. MacAlpine
PARTICIPANTS

• An Infrared Survey of Neutron-Capture Elements in Planetary Nebulae
  N. C. Sterling & H. L. Dinerstein
• The 3-D Structure of the Helix Nebula
  C. R. O'Dell
• Oxygen Recombination Line Abundances in Gaseous Nebulae
  A. Peimbert & M. Peimbert
• Helium Recombination Lines as a Probe of Abundance and Temperature Problems
  Y. Zhang, R. H. Rubin, & X.-W. Liu
• Morpho-kinematic modelling of gaseous nebulae with Shape
  W. Steffen, J. A. López, & H. Riesgo
• The Thermal Pressure Distribution in the Atomic ISM
  A. Gazol, E. Vázquez-Semadeni, & J. Kim
• Winds from Pulsars
  F. C. Michel
• Leaded Metal-Poor Stars
  C. Sneden & I. I. Ivans
• Short Gamma Ray Burst Central Engines
  W. H. Lee
• Particle Acceleration by Electromagnetic-Dominated Outflows
  E. Liang & K. Noguchi
• Selected First Results from the GLIMPSE Survey
  E. Churchwell & GLIMPSE Team
• A photometric view of the redshift distribution of dust-enshrouded galaxies
  I. Aretxaga & D. H. Hughes
• The Hunt for Extrasolar Planets at McDonald Observatory
  M. Endl, W. D. Cochran, A. P. Hatzes, & R. A. Wittenmyer
• The FIRST Flat Spectrum Sample
  G. Fossati
• Dust and the ultraviolet energy distribution of quasars
  L. Binette, C. Morisset, & S. Haro-Corzo
• Astronomical Goals of LIGO
  D. Ugolini
• Reionization and the Fate of Dwarf Galaxies
  E. D. Skillman
• Examination of Systematic Errors in Abundances Derived From Nebular Spectra
  B. D. Moore & R. J. Dufour
• The Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT): tracing the evolution of structure in the early universe
  D. H. Hughes
• Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies: The Growth of Pseudobulges and Problems for Cold Dark Matter Galaxy Formation
  J. Kormendy & D. B. Fisher
• QSO Host Galaxy Luminosity and [O III] Line Width as a Surrogate for Stellar Velocity Distribution
  E. W. Bonning, G. A. Shields, S. Salviander, & R. J. McLure
• Extending the Search for Counterrotating Gas and Stars in Galaxies: A Study of Late-Type Dwarfs
  J. M. Guie, S. J. Kannappan, Z. Balog, & P. Berlind
• CO Linewidths and the Black Hole - Bulge Relationship for High Redshift QSOs
  K. L. Menezes, G. A. Shields, C. A. Massart, & P. Vanden Bout
• NEBU_3D, a new pseudo-3d photoionization code
  C. Morisset, G. Stasinska, & M. Peña
• The Distribution of Metal Poor Galaxies in the N/O Plateau
  A. Nava, R. B. C. Henry, & J. X. Prochaska
• Chemical Composition of the H II Region Hubble V in NGC 6822 Based on VLT Spectroscopy
  M. Peimbert, A. Peimbert, & M. T. Ruiz
• HuDo 1 and HuBi 1: two planetary nebulae ionized by cool [WC] central stars
  M. Peña
• The Black Hole Mass - Galaxy Bulge Relationship for QSOs in the SDSS DR3
  S. Salviander, G. A. Shields, & K. Gebhardt
• A new Hall of Astronomy in the Science Museum at UNAM
  S. Torres-Peimbert & C. Doddoli

Abstracts of Contributed Papers
Author Index