HEADNEWS: THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION OF THE AAS

Newsletter No. 99, December 2011

1. Notes from the Editor- Belinda Wilkes, HEAD EC Member
2. Obituary: Dave De Young
3. News on HEAD Meetings - Joel Bregman, HEAD Vice-Chair
4. HEAD in the News -Megan Watzke, Press Officer
5. News from the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters - Jaya Bajpayee, Program Executive
6. Chandra X-ray Observatory Operations Report - Roger Brissenden and Martin Weisskopf
7. Fermi Mission News - Julie McEnery, et. al.
8. GEMS- Jean Swank, Tim Kallman & Keith Jahoda
9. INTEGRAL Mission News- Christoph Winkler and Steve Sturner
10. The Next NASA X-ray Astronomy Mission, or the Mission Formerly Known as IXO - Michael Garcia and Rob Petre
11. NASA Gravitational Wave News (Formerly LISA News) - Michele Vallisneri
12. Swift Mission News - Stefan Immler, Lynn Cominsky, & Neil Gehrels
13. Suzaku Mission News - Koji Mukai
14. XMM-Newton Mission News - Lynne Valencic
15. Data Analysis and Reduction Team (DARTS)
16. Meetings Calendar

HEADNEWS, the electronic newsletter of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society, is issued twice yearly by the HEAD Secretary-Treasurer. The HEAD Executive Committee Members are:

• Chryssa Kouveliotou, Chair ( xpysag@gmail.com )
• Ann Hornschemeier, Secretary-Treasurer (headsec@xraydeep.org )
• Joel Bregman, Vice Chair (jbregman@umich.edu)
• Mitch Begelman, Past Chair (mitch@jila.colorado.edu)
• Jack Hughes ( jph@physics.rutgers.edu )
• Frits Paerels ( frits@astro.columbia.edu )
• Belinda Wilkes ( belinda@head.cfa.harvard.edu )
• Megan Watzke, Press Officer (mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu)
• Rosanne DiStefano (rdistefano@cfa.harvard.edu)
• Stephen Reynolds ( reynolds@ncsu.edu)
• Jan Vrtilek (jvrtilek@cfa.harvard.edu)