Recent WHAM News

April 17, 2008

WHAM was removed from the pad on Kitt Peak and loaded onto the truck this morning. We have photos posted. It's been a great 11 years, and we look forward to Chile!

April 16, 2008

Alex, Ed, Kurt, and Matt have all spent time at Kitt Peak in the past three weeks packing WHAM up to prepare the instrument for the move to Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. A crane and truck will arrive tomorrow to take WHAM back to Madison for six months of refurbishment and upgrades, and we will ship it down to Chile late this year to begin a southern kinematic H-alpha survey.

January, 2007

Alex, Rex, and Matt attended the AAS meeting in Seattle, WA. Alex presented a poster on his ongoing study of the denstiy distribution of the WIM and a promising comparision of the statistics of Hα emission (EM) and pulsar dispersion measures (DM) with MHD simulations of the ISM by Kowal, Lazarian, and collaborators. Rex presented a poster of his early work on [O III] emission line maps toward several regions in the Galaxy, including the λ Ori (O8 III) H II region.

July, 2006

We have been awarded a grant from the NSF to continue our research with WHAM. This next round of funding will be used to upgrade some of the aging hardware systems and then move WHAM from Kitt Peak to the southern hemisphere so that we can complete an all-sky kinematic Hα survey.

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