WHAM Papers

Refereed Papers

Warm Ionized Medium Throughout the Sagittarius-Carina Arm

Krishnarao, Haffner, Benjamin, Hill, & Barger, 2017, ApJ, 838, 43

The Fan Region at 1.5 GHz. I: Polarized synchrotron emission extending beyond the Perseus Arm

Hill, Landecker, Carretti, Douglas, Sun, Gaensler, Mao, McClure-Griffiths, Reich, Wolleben, Dickey, Gray, Haverkorn, Leahy, Schnitzeler, 2017, MNRAS, 467, 4631

The Ionization Structure of Sharpless 2-264: Multiwavelength Observations of the λ Ori H II Region

Sahan & Haffner, 2016, AJ, 151, 147

Modern view of the warm ionized medium

Hill, Reynolds, Haffner, Wood, & Madsen, 2015, Highlights of Astronomy, 16, 574-575

Models of diffuse Hα in the interstellar medium: the relative contributions from in situ ionization and dust scattering

Barnes, Wood, Hill, & Haffner, 2015, MNRAS, 447, 559-566

The geocoronal Hα cascade component determined from geocoronal Hβ intensity measurements

Roesler, Mierkiewicz, & Nossal, 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 119, 6642-6647

Photoionization and heating of a supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium

Barnes, Wood, Hill, & Haffner, 2014, MNRAS, 440, 3027-3035

The COS/UVES Absorption Survey of the Magellanic Stream. III. Ionization, Total Mass, and Inflow Rate onto the Milky Way

Fox, Wakker, Barger, Hernandez, Richter, Lehner, Bland-Hawthorn, Charlton, Westmeier, Thom, Tumlinson, Misawa, Howk, Haffner, Ely, Rodriguez-Hidalgo, & Kumari, 2014, ApJ, 787, 147

Hα and [S II] Emission from Warm Ionized Gas in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm

Hill, Benjamin, Haffner, Gostisha, & Barger, 2014, ApJ, 787, 106

Fossil Imprint of a Powerful Flare at the Galactic Center along the Magellanic Stream

Bland-Hawthorn, Maloney, Sutherland, & Madsen, 2013, ApJ, 778, 58

Magnetized Gas in the Smith High Velocity Cloud

Hill, Mao, Benjamin, Lockman, & McClure-Griffiths, 2013, ApJ, 777, 55

Warm Ionized Gas Revealed in the Magellanic Bridge Tidal Remnant: Constraining the Baryon Content and the Escaping Ionizing Photons around Dwarf Galaxies

Barger, Haffner, & Bland-Hawthorn, 2013, ApJ, 771, 132

Three-dimensional Geometries and the Analysis of H II Regions

Wood, Barnes, Ercolano, Haffner, Reynolds, & Dale, 2013, ApJ, 770, 152

Present-day Galactic Evolution: Low-metallicity, Warm, Ionized Gas Inflow Associated with High-velocity Cloud Complex A

Barger, Haffner, Wakker, Hill, Madsen, & Duncan, 2012, ApJ, 761, 145

Erratum: ”Vertical Structure of a Supernova-driven Turbulent, Magnetized Interstellar Medium”

Hill, Joung, Mac Low, Benjamin, Haffner, Klingenberg, & Waagan, 2012, ApJ, 761, 189

Sodium atoms in the lunar exotail: Observed velocity and spatial distributions

Line, Mierkiewicz, Oliversen, Wilson, Haffner, & Roesler, 2012, Icarus, 219, 609-617

Vertical Structure of a Supernova-driven Turbulent, Magnetized Interstellar Medium

Hill, Joung, Mac Low, Benjamin, Haffner, Klingenberg, & Waagan, 2012, ApJ, 750, 104

GSH 006-15+7: a local Galactic supershell featuring transition from H I emission to absorption

Moss, McClure-Griffiths, Braun, Hill, & Madsen, 2012, MNRAS, 421, 3159-3169

Observed and modeled solar cycle variation in geocoronal hydrogen using NRLMSISE-00 thermosphere conditions and the Bishop analytic exosphere model

Nossal, Mierkiewicz, & Roesler, 2012, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), 117, 3311

Photoionization of High-altitude Gas in a Supernova-driven Turbulent Interstellar Medium

Wood, Hill, Joung, Mac Low, Benjamin, Haffner, Reynolds, & Madsen, 2010, ApJ, 721, 1397-1403

Ionized gas in the Smith Cloud

Hill, Haffner, & Reynolds, 2009, ApJ, 703, 1832

The Warm Ionized Medium in Spiral Galaxies

Haffner, Dettmar, Beckman, Wood, Slavin, Giammanco, Madsen, Zurita, & Reynolds, 2009, Rev. Mod. Phys., 81, 969

Confirmation of a Faraday Rotation Measure Anomaly in Cygnus

Whiting, Spangler, Ingleby, & Haffner, 2009, ApJ, 694, 1452

Geocoronal hydrogen observations spanning three solar minima

Nossal, Mierkiewicz, Roesler, Haffner, Reynolds, & Woodward, 2008, JGR, 113, A11307

The Turbulent Warm Ionized Medium: Emission Measure Distribution and MHD Simulations

Hill, Benjamin, Kowal, Reynolds, Haffner, & Lazarian, 2008, ApJ, 686, 363

Determination of the Far‐Infrared Cosmic Background Using COBE DIRBE and WHAM Data

Odegard, Arendt, Dwek, Haffner, Hauser, & Reynolds, 2007, ApJ, 667, 11

A Multiwavelength Optical Emission Line Survey of Warm Ionized Gas in the Galaxy

Madsen, Reynolds, & Haffner, 2006, ApJ, 652, 401

Estimating the Porosity of the Interstellar Medium from Three-dimensional Photoionization Modeling of H II Regions

Wood, Haffner, Reynolds, Mathis, & Madsen. 2005, ApJ, 633, 295

An Investigation of Diffuse Interstellar Gas toward a Large, Low-Extinction Window into the Inner Galaxy

Madsen & Reynolds. 2005, ApJ, 630, 925

Unresolved Halpha Enhancements at High Galactic Latitude in the WHAM Sky Survey Maps

Reynolds, Chaudhary, Madsen, & Haffner. 2005, AJ, 129, 927

New Measurements of the Motion of the Zodiacal Dust

Reynolds, Madsen, & Moseley. 2004, ApJ, 612, 1206

Observations of solar cyclical variations in geocoronal Hα column emission intensities

Nossal, Roesler, Mierkiewicz, & Reynolds. 2004, GeoRL, 31, L06110

Warm ionized gas in the local interstellar medium

Reynolds. 2004, AdSpR, 34, 27

A Search for Ionized Gas in the Draco and Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Gallagher, Madsen, & Reynolds. 2003, ApJ, 588, 326

The Wisconsin Hα Mapper Northern Sky Survey

Haffner, Reynolds, Tufte, Madsen, Jaehnig, & Percival. 2003, ApJS, 149, 405.

Measurements of [O I] λ6300/Hα Line Intensity Ratios for Four O Star H II Regions

Hausen, Reynolds, & Haffner. 2002, AJ, 124, 3336

WHAM Observations of Hα from High-Velocity Clouds: Are They Galactic or Extragalactic?

Tufte, Wilson, Madsen, Haffner, & Reynolds. 2002, ApJ, 572, 153

Interstellar Hα Line Profiles toward HD 93521 and the Lockman Window

Hausen, Reynolds, Haffner, & Tufte. 2002, ApJ, 565, 1060

Multiwavelength observations of the M15 intermediate-velocity cloud

Smoker, Haffner, Keenan, Davies, & Pollacco. 2002, MNRAS, 337, 385

A New Spin on Galactic Dust

de Oliveira-Costa, Tegmark, Finkbeiner, Davies, Gutierrez, Carlos, Haffner, Jones, Aled, Lasenby, Rebolo, Reynolds, Tufte, & Watson. 2002, ApJ, 567, 363

Observations of the Extended Distribution of Ionized Hydrogen in the Plane of M31

Madsen, Reynolds, Haffner, Tufte, & Maloney. 2001, ApJ, 560, L135

Detection of a Large Arc of Ionized Hydrogen Far Above the Cas OB6 Association: A Superbubble Blowout into the Galactic Halo?

Reynolds, Sterling, & Haffner. 2001, ApJ, 558, L101

A Map of the Ionized Component of the Intermediate-Velocity Cloud Complex K

Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 2001, ApJ, 556, L33

Detection of [N II] 5755 Emission from Low Density Ionized Interstellar Gas

Reynolds, Sterling, Haffner, & Tufte. 2001, ApJ, 548, L221

Geocoronal Hα Intensity Measurements Using the Wisconsin Hα Mapper Fabry-Perot Facility

Nossal, Roesler, Bishop, Reynolds, Haffner, Tufte, Percival, & Mierkiewicz. 2001, JGR , 106, 5605

Searching for Additional Heating: [O II] Emission in the Diffuse Ionized Gas of NGC 891, NGC 4631, and NGC 3079

Otte, Reynolds, Gallagher & Ferguson. 2001, ApJ, 560, 207

Galactic Contamination in the QMAP Experiment 

de Oliveira-Costa, Tegmark, Devlin, Haffner, Herbig, Miller, Page, Reynolds, & Tufte. 2000, ApJ, 542, L5

Physical Conditions, Grain Temperatures, and Enhanced Very Small Grains in Barnard’s Loop

Heiles, Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 2000, ApJ, 536, 335

Observational Evidence of Supershell Blowout in GS 018-04+44: The Scutum Supershell

Callaway, Savage, Benjamin, Haffner, & Tufte, 2000, ApJ, 532, 943

Evidence for Dust Emission in the Warm Ionised Medium Using WHAM Data

Lagache, Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 2000, A&A, 354, 247

Evidence for an Additional Heat Source in the Warm Ionized Medium of Galaxies

Reynolds, Haffner, & Tufte. 1999, ApJ, 525, L21

WHAM Observations of Hα, [S II], and [N II] toward the Orion and Perseus Arms: Probing the Physical Conditions of the Warm Ionized Medium

Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 1999, ApJ , 523, 223

A Model for the Scattered Light Contribution and Polarization of the Diffuse Hα Galactic Background

Wood & Reynolds. 1999, ApJ, 525, 799

Identification of Low-Metallicity Gas Accreting onto the Milky Way

Wakker, Howk, Savage, van Woerden, Tufte, Schwarz, Benjamin, Reynolds, Peletier, & Kalberla. 1999, Nature, 402, 388

WHAM Observations of Hα Emission from High Velocity Clouds in the M, A, and C Complexes

Tufte, Reynolds, & Haffner. 1998, ApJ, 504, 773

Faint, Large-scale Hα Filaments in the Milky Way

Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 1998, ApJ, 501, L83

Detection of [O I] 6300 Emission from the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

Reynolds, Hausen, Haffner, & Tufte. 1998, ApJ, 494, L99

Ionizing the Galaxy

Reynolds, Science, 277, 1446

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM): A Brief Review of Performance Characteristics and Early Scientific Results 

Reynolds, Tufte, Haffner, Jaehnig, & Percival. 1998, Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 15, 14

Proceedings

The Distribution of Warm Ionized Medium in Galaxies

Haffner. 2010, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 438, The Dynamic ISM: A Celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, eds. R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker, & A. G. Willis, p. 179

astro-ph/1008.0622

PDF [659 k]

Early Results from the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper Southern Sky Survey

Haffner, Reynolds, Madsen, Hill, Barger, Jaehnig, Mierkiewicz, Percival, & Chopra. 2010, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 438, The Dynamic ISM: A Celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, eds. R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker, & A. G. Willis, p. 388

astro-ph/1008.0612

PDF [339 k]

The Role of Turbulence in the Warm Ionized Medium

Hill, Wood, & Haffner. 2010, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 438, The Dynamic ISM: A Celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, eds. R. Kothes, T. L. Landecker, & A. G. Willis, p. 190

astro-ph/1007.2767 

PDF [80 k]

Meeting Poster: PDF [2.3M]

Ionization of Infalling Gas

Haffner, Duncan, Hoffman, Madsen, Hill, & Reynolds. 2008, in proceedings of “The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs Infall?”, EAS Publication Series, in press

astro-ph/0901.0940

PDF [375 k]

Meeting Poster: PDF [5M]

Ionized Gas in the Smith Cloud

Hill, Haffner, & Reynolds. 2008, in proceedings of “The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs Infall?”, EAS Publication Series, in press

astro-ph/0901.0712

PDF [183 k]

Meeting Poster: PDF [1.3M]

Diffuse Ionized Gas in Spiral Galaxies and the Disk-halo Interaction

Reynolds, Haffner, Madsen, Wood, & Hill. 2008, in proceedings of “The Role of Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxy Evolution: Outflow vs Infall?”, EAS Publication Series, in press

astro-ph/0812.4303

PDF [266 k]

Density Distribution of the Warm Ionized Medium

Hill, Reynolds, Benjamin, & Haffner. 2006, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 365, Small Ionized and Neutral Structures in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, ed. M. Haverkorn & W. M. Goss, p. 250

astro-ph/0701477

PDF [284 k]

The Ionized Component of Intermediate-Velocity Cloud Complex L

Haffner. 2005, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 331, Extra-Planar Gas , ed. Robert Braun, p. 25

Postscript [gzip, 6.23 M]

Surveying the Galaxy with WHAM

Reynolds, Haffner, & Madsen. 2004, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 317, Milky Way Surveys: The Structure and Evolution of Our Galaxy , eds. D. Clemens, R. Shah, & T. Brainerd, p. 186

Three-Dimensional Studies of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Milky Way using WHAM

Reynolds, Haffner, & Madsen. 2002, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 282, Galaxies: The Third Dimension , eds. M. Rosado, L. Binette, and L. Arias, p. 31

The Wisconsin Hα Mapper Northern Sky Survey

Madsen, Haffner, & Reynolds. 2001, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 276, Seeing Through the Dust , eds. A. R. Taylor, T. L. Landecker, and A. G. Willis, p. 96

PostScript [gzip, 345 k]

Mapping the Galactic Free-Free Foreground via Interstellar Hα Emission

Reynolds & Haffner. 2000, ASP Conference Series, IAU Symposium #201, in press

PostScript [gzip, 1.5M]

The Wisconsin Hα Mapper Northern Sky Survey

Haffner. 2001, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 231, Tetons 4: Galactic Structure, Stars and the Interstellar Medium , eds. C.E. Woodward, M.D. Bicay, and J.M. Shull, p. 345

PostScript [gzip, 1.3M]

The WHAM Hα Mapper: A New Look at the Warm Ionized Medium

Haffner, Reynolds, & Tufte. 2000, Rev. Mex. A&A (Serie de Conf.), 9, 335

PDF [1.8M]

Temperature Variations and Non-photoionization Heating in the Warm Ionized Medium of Galaxies

Reynolds, Haffner, & Tufte. 2000, Rev. Mex. A&A (Serie de Conf.), 9, 249

PDF [148k]

Green Bank Workshop on Warm Ionized Gas in Galaxies

Minter, Lockman, Balser, Reynolds, Savage, Cordes, Rand, & Shull. 2000, PASP, 112, 424

Probing Intersteller Turbulence in the Warm Ionized Medium Using Emission Lines

Tufte, Reynolds, & Haffner. 1999, Proceedings of the 2nd Guillermo Haro Conference on Interstellar Turbulence held in Puebla, MX, eds. J. Franco and A. Carraminanna (Cambridge University Press)

The Gaseous ISM: Observations with the Wisconsin H-alpha Mapper (WHAM)

Reynolds, Haffner, & Tufte. 1999, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 168, New Perspectives on the Interstellar Medium , eds. A.R. Taylor, T.L. Landecker, and G. Joncas, p. 149

The Eridanus Superbubble in its Multiwavelength Glory

Heiles, Haffner, & Reynolds. 1999, ASP Conference Series Vol. 168, New Perspectives on the Interstellar Medium , eds. A.R. Taylor, T.L. Landecker, and G. Joncas, p. 211

Hα from HVCs

Tufte, Reynolds, & Haffner. 1998, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 666, Stromlo Workshop on High Velocity Clouds , eds. B.K. Gibson and M.E. Putman

Observational Evidence for the Accretion of Low-Metallicity Gas onto the Milky Way: Metallicity, Physical Conditions, and Distance Limit for HVC Complex C

Wakker, Howk, Savage, Tufte, Reynolds, van Woerden, & Schwarz. 1998, in ASP Conference Series, Vol. 666, Stromlo Workshop on High Velocity Clouds , eds. B.K. Gibson & M.E. Putman

The WHAM Hα Survey

Tufte, Reynolds, & Haffner. 1998, in Proc. of the APS, Astrophysics from Antarctica, eds. S.G. Novak & R.H. Landsberg

Orion, Eridanus, and the Assembly of Local Superbubbles

Heiles, Reynolds, Haffner, & Tufte. 1998, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 166, The Local Bubble and Beyond, eds. D. Breitschwerdt, M.J. Freyberg, & J. Trumper

Posters

2016

Winter AAS (Kissimmee, FL)

Discovery and Characterization of Large-Angular Size Ionized Nebulae with WHAM
Doze, P., Benjamin, R. A., Haffner, L. M.

WHAM observations of ionized gas in the inner Milky Way
Hill, A. S., Haffner, L. M., Benjamin, R. A., Gostisha, M., Barger, K.

The All-sky Kinematics of Diffuse Galactic H-alpha Emission from WHAM
Eagon, A., Haffner, L. M., Benjamin, R. A.

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper Sky Survey
Haffner, L. M., Reynolds, R. J., Babler, B. L., Madsen, G. J., Hill, A. S., Barger, K., Jaehnig, K. P., Mierkiewicz, E. J., Percival, J. W., Chopra, N., Pingel, N., Reese, D. T., Gostisha, M., Wunderlin, J.

Physical Properties of the Magellanic Bridge Tidal Remnant through Mapped Hα, [S II], and [N II] Emission
Barger, K., Haffner, L. M.

The Extended Ionized Halos and Bridge of the Magellanic Clouds
Krishnarao, D., Smart, B., Haffner, L. M., Barger, K., Madsen, G. J., Hill, A. S., Gaensler, B. M.

Investigating the Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Magellanic Cloud System with WHAM
Smart, B., Haffner, L. M., Barger, K., Hernandez, M.

Cannibalization of Dwarf Galaxies by the Milky Way: Distance to the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Clouds
Antwi-Danso, J., Barger, K., Haffner, L. M.

Gas Flowing out of the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy due to Numerous Supernovae Explosions
Horn, M., Barger, K., Lehner, N., Howk, J. C., Haffner, L. M.

2015

Winter AAS (Seattle, WA)

The Ionization Source and Distance to the Magellanic Stream
Barger, K., Madsen, G. J., Fox, A., Wakker, B. P., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Nidever, D. L., Haffner, L. M., Lehner, N., Hill, A. S.

Investigating the Diffuse Ionized Gas throughout the Magellanic Cloud System with WHAM
Smart, B., Haffner, L. M., Barger, K., Madsen, G. J., Hill, A. S.

The Rediscovery of the Antlia Supernova Remnant
Orchard, A., Benjamin, R. A., Gostisha, M., Haffner, L. M., Hill, A. S., Barger, K.

2014

Winter AAS (Washington, DC)

WHAM Southern Sky Survey early results: Ionized gas in the Scutum-Centaurus Arm
Hill, A. S., Haffner, L. M., Benjamin, R. A., Gostisha, M., Barger, K.

2013

Summer AAS (Indianapolis, IN)

The Vertical Structure, Ionization, and Kinematic Structure of Spiral Arm Outflows Inside and Outside the Solar Circle
Gostisha, M., Benjamin, R. A., Haffner, L. M., Hill, A. S., Barger, K. A.

Winter AAS (Long Beach, CA)

Warm, Ionized Gas Revealed in the Magellanic Bridge Tidal Remnant: Constraining the Baryon Content and the Escaping Ionizing Photons around Dwarf Galaxies
Barger, K. A., Haffner, L. M., Bland-Hawthorn, J.

The Kinematics of Warm Ionized Gas in the Fourth Galactic Quadrant
Gostisha, M., Benjamin, R. A., Haffner, L. M., Hill, A. S., Barger, K. A.