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Table of Contents - Subject Index - Author Index - Search - PS reprint - PDF reprint McCullough, P. R. 2003, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 295 Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII, eds. H. E. Payne, R. I. Jedrzejewski, & R. N. Hook (San Francisco: ASP), 121

Photometric and Astrometric Calibration of the Southern H-alpha Sky Survey Atlas

Peter R. McCullough
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract:

The Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas (SHASSA) is the primary data product of a robotic wide-angle imaging survey of the southern sky at 656.3 nm wavelength, the H-alpha emission line of hydrogen. The scientific motivation for the survey and its photometric and astrometric calibration were described in this ADASS presentation and in Gaustad et al. (2001). The latter's Section 5 describes a mosaicing process by which foreground emission is removed from hundreds of overlapping images. Some scientific uses of the SHASSA are listed in the references below. SHASSA's web site can be found by typing ``SHASSA'' into Google.

References

Gaustad, J. E., McCullough, P. R., Rosing, W., & Van Buren, D. 2001, PASP, 113, 1326

McCullough, P. R., Bender, C., Gaustad, J. E., Rosing, W., & Van Buren, D. 2001, AJ, 121, 1578

McCullough, P. R., Fields, B. D., & Pavlidou, V. 2002, ApJ, 576, L41

Speck, A. K., Meixner, M., Fong, D., McCullough, P. R., Moser, D. E., & Ueta, T. 2002, AJ, 123, 346

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