An imaging survey of northern galactic H-alpha emmission with arcminute resolution

Details An imaging survey of northern galactic H-alpha emmission with arcminute resolution An imaging survey of northern galactic H-alpha emmission with arcminute resolution

Apr 1998

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Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 147-48

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

57

Interstellar Medium, Bubbles, Clouds, Hii Regions, Supernova Remnants

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We present preliminary results from a high-resolution, high-sensitivity imaging survey of the northern galactic H-alpha emission. The survey is carried out using the Spectral Line Imaging Camera (SLIC) which incorporates a fast (f/1.2) lens attached to a cryogenic CCD in combination with a narrowband interference filter. The pixel size is 1.6 arcminutes and the diameter of each field is 10 degrees. The fast optics, narrow bandpass (1.7 nm) filter, and high quantum-efficiency, low-noise CCD yield a high brightness sensitivity to H-alpha emission on arcminute scales. This gives an equivalent sensitivity to emission measure structure below 1 pc cm^-6^. Some faint features detected include a supershell connected with the star forming region W4 extending 7 degrees above the galactic plane, and filaments possibly related to galactic loops II and III. In addition, we have carried out deep observations of fields in which anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation have been detected. Our observations place stringent limits upon the contribution to the apparent microwave fluctuations from free-free emission in the galactic foreground.

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