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Interstellar Cirrus Observed in Balmer Hα

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

P.R. McCullough
P.R. McCullough*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., University of Illinois

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We present Hα images with 0.1° resolution and fields of view larger than 10°. In some regions of the sky, the Balmer Hα emission is correlated positively with IRAS 100 μm emission. Observations of such sensitivity and angular scale as these provide a new view of the interstellar medium of our Galaxy (see also Dennison et al., this volume, p. 182) and may allow us to distinguish between Galactic foreground and cosmic background for both the free-free emission and the thermal dust emission associated with the warm ionized medium of the Milky Way.

Type
Part 3. The Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 179: New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys , 1998 , pp. 184 - 185
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

References

McCullough, 1997, Astron. J. submitted.Google Scholar