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THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES CONTENTS OF VOLUME 163 2006 MARCH NUMBER 1 A UNIFIED, MERGER-DRIVEN MODEL OF THE ORIGIN OF STARBURSTS, QUASARS, THE COSMIC X-RAY BACKGROUND, SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES, AND GALAXY SPHEROIDS © Philip F: Hopkins, Lars Hernquist, Thomas J. Cox, Tiziana Di Matteo, Brant Robertson, & Volker Springel DETERMINING THE PROPERTIES AND EVOLUTION OF RED GALAXIES FROM THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION © Philip F- Hopkins, Lars Hernquist, Thomas J. Cox, Brant Robertson, & Volker Springel THE Lya FOREST POWER SPECTRUM FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY © Patrick McDonald, Uro Seljak, Scott Burles, David J. Schlegel, David H. Weinberg, Renyue Cen, David Shih, Joop Schaye, Donald P. Schneider, Neta A. Bahcall, John W. Briggs, J. Brinkmann, Robert J. Brunner, Masataka Fukugita, James E. Gunn, Zeljko vezi, Stephen Kent, Robert H. Lupton, & Daniel E. Vanden Berk QUASAR SPECTRUM CLASSIFICATION WITH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA): EMISSION LINES IN THE Lya FOREST © Nao Suzuki FRAGMENTATION AND EVOLUTION OF MOLECULAR CLOUDS. I. ALGORITHM AND FIRST RESULTS Hugo Martel, NealJ . Evans II, & Paul R. Shapiro THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY —FIVE COLLEGE RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY GALACTIC RING SURVEY J. M. Jackson, J. M. Rathborne, R. Y. Shah, R. Simon, T. M. Bania, D. P. Clemens, E. T. Chambers, A. M. Johnson, M. Dormody, R. Lavoie, & M. H. Heyer THREE YEARS OF ChaMPlane NORTHERN FIELD WIYN SPECTROSCOPY A. B. Rogel, P. M. Lugger, H. N. Cohn, S. D. Slavin, J. E. Grindlay, P. Zhao, & J. Hong ETA CARINAE ACROSS THE 2003.5 MINIMUM: THE CHARACTER AND VARIABILITY OF THE EJECTA ABSORPTION IN THE NEAR-ULTRAVIOLET © T. R. Gull, G. Vieira Kober, & K. E. Nielsen UNDERSTANDING THE KINETICS AND DYNAMICS OF RADIATION-INDUCED REACTION PATHWAYS IN CARBON MONOXIDE ICE AT 10 K Corey S. Jamieson, Alexander M. Mebel, & Ralf I. Kaiser NEW ACCURATE OSCILLATOR STRENGTHS AND ELECTRON EXCITATION COLLISION STRENGTHS FORN:i © S. S. Tayal 2006 APRIL NUMBER 2 MICROLENSING TOWARD CROWDED FIELDS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO M31 A. Riffeser, J. Fliri, S. Seitz, & R. Bender ON THE LENGTHS, COLORS, AND AGES OF 18 FACE-ON BARS © D. A. Gadotti & R. E. de Souza A FUSE SURVEY OF HIGH-LATITUDE GALACTIC MOLECULAR HYDROGEN © B. P. Wakker CHANDRA STUDY OF THE CEPHEUS B STAR-FORMING REGION: STELLAR POPULATIONS AND THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION © Konstantin V. Getman, Eric D. Feigelson, Leisa Townsley, Patrick Broos, Gordon Garmire, & Masahiro Tsujimoto EFFECTS OF NEUTRINO-DRIVEN KICKS ON THE SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION MECHANISM © Christopher L. Frver & Alexander Kusenko AN X-RAY SEARCH FOR COMPACT CENTRAL SOURCES IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS. IL. SIX LARGE-DIAMETER SNRs © D. L. Kaplan, B. M. Gaensler, S. R. Kulkarni, & P. O. Slane CONTENTS A SYSTEMATIC SEARCH FOR PERIODICITIES IN RXTE ASM DATA © Linging Wen, Alan M. Levine, Robin H. D. Corbet, & Hale V. Bradt AN ATLAS OF K-LINE SPECTRA FOR COOL MAGNETIC CP STARS: THE WING-NIB ANOMALY (WNA) C. R. Cowley, S. Hubrig, & I. Kamp CALIBRATION OF THE ROSSI X-RAY TIMING EXPLORER PROPORTIONAL COUNTER ARRAY Keith Jahoda, Craig B. Markwardt, Yana Radeva, Arnold H. Rots, MichaelJ . Stark, Jean H. Swank, Tod E. Strohmayer, & William Zhang ERRATUM: “A CHANDRA SURVEY OF NEARBY SPIRAL GALAXIES. I. POINT SOURCE CATALOGS” (ApJS, 159, 214 [2005]) R. E. Kilgard, J. J. Cowan, M. R. Garcia, P. Kaaret, M. 1. Krauss, J. C. McDowell, A. H. Prestwich, F. A. Primini, C. J. Stockdale. G. Trinchieri, M. J. Ward, & A. Zezas