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THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS CONTENTS OF VOLUME 555, PART 2 2001 JULY 1, NUMBER | PROBING THE UNIVERSE AFTER COSMOLOGICAL RECOMBINATION THROUGH THE EFFECT OF NEUTRAL LITHIUM ON THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES Abraham Loeb PROBING THE EVOLUTION OF THE GAS MASS FRACTION WITH THE SUNYAEV-ZELDOVICH EFFECT Subhabrata Majumdar A MEASUREMENT OF H, FROM THE SUNYAEV-ZELDOVICH EFFECT Brian S. Mason, Steven T. Myers, and A. C. S. Readhead STAR FORMATION, SUPERNOVA FEEDBACK, AND THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM PROBLEM IN NUMERICAL COLD DARK MATTER COSMOGONY: HALFWAY THERE? R. J. Thacker and H. M. P. Couchman CHANDRA LIMITS ON X-RAY EMISSION ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN THREE GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES Michael Loewenstein, Richard F. Mushotzky, Lorella Angelini, Keith A. Arnaud, and Eliot Quataert LONG-LIVED LOPSIDED MODES OF ANNULAR DISKS ORBITING A CENTRAL MASS V. Jacobs and J. A. Sellwood ON THE SCHWARZSCHILD VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE LOCAL STELLAR DISK Evgeny Griv, Michael Gedalin, and David Eichler A NEW METHOD TO MEASURE AND MAP THE GAS SCALE HEIGHT OF DISK GALAXIES © Paolo Padoan, Sungeun Kim, Alyssa Goodman, and Lister Staveley-Smith MAPPING THE GALACTIC HALO. V. SAGITTARIUS DWARF SPHEROIDAL TIDAL DEBRIS 60° FROM THE MAIN BODY Robbie C. Dohm-Palmer, Amina Helmi, Heather Morrison, Mario Mateo, Edward W. Olszewski, Paul Harding, Kenneth C. Freeman, John Norris, and Stephen A. Shectman CALORIMETRY OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: ECHOES IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVES Maurice H. P. M. van Putten and Amir Levinson NORMAL-BRANCH QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN SCORPIUS X-1: VISCOUS OSCILLATIONS OF A SPHERICAL SHELL NEAR THE NEUTRON STAR L. G. Titarchuk, C. F. Bradshaw, B. J. Geldzahler, and E. B. Fomalont INFERRING INITIAL SPIN PERIODS FOR NEUTRON STARS IN COMPOSITE REMNANTS E. van der Swaluw and Y. Wu CLASSIFICATION OF POWER DENSITY SPECTRUM FEATURES AND ESTIMATION OF THE 6-INVARIANT VALUE FOR THE Z SOURCE GX 340+0 Lev Titarchuk and Vladimir Osherovich FORMATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE BY SURFACE REACTIONS ON ICES IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM Joe E. Roser, Gianfranco Vidali, Giulio Manico, and Valerio Pirronello PLASMA EJECTIONS FROM A LIGHT BRIDGE IN A SUNSPOT UMBRA Ayumi Asai, Takako T. Ishii, and Hiroki Kurokawa SOLAR NEUTRINO EMISSION DEDUCED FROM A SEISMIC MODEL S. Turck-Chiéze, S. Couvidat, A. G. Kosovicheyv, A. H. Gabriel, G. Berthomieu, A. S. Brun, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, R. A. Garcia, D. O. Gough, J. Provost, T. Roca-Cortes, I. W. Roxburgh, and R. K. Ulrich ERRATA A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUCLEAR BLACK HOLE MAss AND GALAXY VELOCITY DISPERSION Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Carl Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, Douglas Richstone, and Scott Tremaine INTERSTELLAR DETECTION OF CCC AND HIGH-PRECISION LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS NEAR 2 THz T. F. Giesen, A. O. Van Orden, J. D. Cruzan, R. A. Provencal, R. J. Saykally, R. Gendriesch, F. Lewen, and G. Winnewisser INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS, AND ADDITIONAL USEFUL INFORMATION Inside Back Cover INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover CONTENTS 200i JULY 10, NUMBER 2 SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. I. THE CONSISTENCY OF BLACK HOLE MASSES IN QUIESCENT AND ACTIVE GALAXIES Laura Ferrarese, Richard W. Pogge, Bradley M. Peterson, David Merritt, Amri Wandel, and Charles L. Joseph POLARIMETRIC IMAGING OF THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE GALACTIC CENTER Benjamin C. Bromley, Fulvio Melia, and Siming Liu ZOOMING IN ON THE COMA CLUSTER WITH CHANDRA: COMPRESSED WARM GAS IN THE BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXIES 4. Vikhlinin, M. Markevitch, W. Forman, and C. Jones THE FORMATION OF DISKS IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES Thorsten Naab and Andreas Burkert WHERE ARE THE HIGH-VELOCITY CLOUDS? © Vicent Quilis and Ben Moore CHANDRA DETECTION OF A HOT GASEOUS CORONA AROUND THE EDGE-ON GALAXY NGC 4631 Q. Daniel Wang, Stefan Immler, Rene Walterbos, James T. Lauroesch, and Dieter Breitschwerdt BIMA OBSERVATIONS OF LINEAR POLARIZATION IN SAGITTARIUS A* AT 112 GHz Geoffrey C. Bower, Melvyn C. H. Wright, Heino Falcke, and Donald C. Backer RELATIVE SPACETIME TRANSFORMATIONS IN GAMMA-RAY BURSTS Remo Ruffini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Federico Fraschetti, She-Sheng Xue, and Pascal Chardonnet ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE BURST STRUCTURE OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS Remo Ruffini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Federico Fraschetti, She-Sheng Xue, and Pascal Chardonnet ON A POSSIBLE GAMMA-RAY BURST-SUPERNOVA TIME SEQUENCI Remo Ruffini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Federico Fraschetti, She-Sheng Xue, and Pascal Chardonnet FAR ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPIC EXPLORER OBSERVATIONS OF CAPELLA P. R. Young, A. K. Dupree, B. E. Wood, S. Redfield, J. L. Linsky, T. B. Ake, and H. W. Moos AN INFRARED JET FROM A HIGH-MASS YOUNG STAR G. A. Fuller, A. A. Zijlstra, and S. J. Williams ORIGIN OF AMINO ACIDS AND ORGANIC SUGARS IN INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS Wilfred H. Sorrell SOLAR FLARE WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTION: VARYING-RATE POISSON OR LEVY FUNCTION? Fabio Lepreti, Vincenzo Carbone, and Pierluigi Veltri INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS OF LETTERS, AND ADDITIONAL USEFUL INFORMATION Inside Back Cover INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Back Cover