A Robotic Wide-Angle H-Alpha Survey of the Southern Sky

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31 August 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0108518

Abstract

We have completed a robotic wide-angle imaging survey of the southern sky (declination less than +15 degrees) at 656.3 nm wavelength, the H-alpha emission line of hydrogen. Each image of the resulting Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas (SHASSA) covers an area of the sky 13 degrees square at an angular resolution of approximately 0.8 arcminute, and reaches a sensitivity level of 2 rayleigh (1.2 x 10^-17 erg cm^-2 s^-1 arcsec^-2) per pixel, corresponding to an emission measure of 4 cm^-6 pc, and to a brightness temperature for microwave free-free emission of 12 microkelvins at 30 GHz. Smoothing over several pixels allows features as faint as 0.5 rayleigh to be detected.

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Version 1, 2001-08-31, ArXiv
Published version: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 113 (789), 1326.

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