VTSS
The Virginia Tech Spectral-Line Survey

Results and Publications

• "Wide-Field H-alpha Observations of a Possible Galactic Chimney Associated with W4", G.A. Topasna, B. Dennison, and J.H. Simonetti, 1995, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 27, 1348. A poster given at the 187th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Antonio, Janurary 1996. See the html version of the poster.
  
  
• "Comparing the H-alpha Intensity and Radio Wave Scattering on Eight Low-Latitude Lines of Sight", by J.H. Simonetti, B. Dennison, and G.A. Topasna, 1995, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 27, 1348. A poster given at the 187th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Antonio, Janurary 1996. See the html version of the poster.
  
  
• "The Contribution of Galactic Free-Free Emission to Anistropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Found by the Saskatoon Experiment", John H. Simonetti, Brian Dennison, and Gregory A. Topasna, 1996 Astrophysical Journal Letters, 458, L1. The abstract is available if you don't want to download the whole paper.
  
  
• "The Contribution of Galactic Free-Free Emission to Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Measured by MSAM", J.H. Simonetti, G.A. Topasna, and B. Dennison, 1996, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 28, 840. A poster given at the 188th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Madison, June 1996. See the html version of the poster.
  
  
• "An Imaging Survey of the Galactic H-alpha Emission" B.Dennison, G.A. Topasna, and J.H. Simonetti, 1996, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 28, 889. A poster given at the 188th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Madison, June 1996. This poster presented a set of large mosaics of images.
  
  
• "Detection in H-alpha of a Supershell Associated with W4," Brian Dennison, Gregory A. Topasna, and John H. Simonetti, 1997, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 474, L31. The two figures for the paper are fig1.gif , and fig2.gif . The abstract is available if you don't want to download the whole paper.
  
  
• "Observations of HI Associated with the W4 Supershell", J.H. Simonetti, G.A. Topasna, B. Dennison, E.M. Murphy, F.J. Lockman, 1997, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 29, 784. A poster given at the 190th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Winston-Salem, June 1997.
  
  
• "A Polarization Map in H-alpha of the North America Nebula", G.A. Topasna, J.H. Simonetti, and B. Dennison, 1997, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 29, 784. A poster given at the 190th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Winston-Salem, June 1997.
  
  
• "Comparative Imaging of Filaments Associated with the Cygnus X Region in the H-alpha and [SII] Doublet", B. Dennison, J.H. Simonetti, and G.A. Topasna, 1997, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 29, 1296. A poster given at the 191th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC, January 1998.
  
  
• "An Imaging Survey of the Galactic H-alpha Emission with Arcminute Resolution," Brian Dennison, John H. Simonetti, Gregory Topasna, and Caitlin Kelleher, 1998 at IAU 179 -- New Horizons from Multi-Wavelength Sky Surveys, held at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University, August 26-30, 1996. (Reference is 1988, IAU 179 -- New Horizons from Multiwavelength Sky Surveys, eds. B.J. McLean, D.A. Golombek, J.J.E. Hayes, H.E. Payne, p. 182).
  
  
• "An Imaging Survey of the Northern Galactic H-alpha Emission with Arcminute Resolution", Brian Dennison, John H. Simonetti, and Gregory Topasna, 1998, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 15, 147.
  
  
• "The Scattering of H-alpha Emission Associated with the Rosette Nebula in the Monoceros Region Studied Using Polarimetry", G.A. Topasna, Ph.D. Thesis, 1999. This thesis is available on line.
  
  
• "Scattering of H-alpha Emission Associated with the Rosette Nebula", G.A. Topasna, B. Dennison, J.H. Simonetti, 2000, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1454. A poster given at the 195th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta GA, January 2000.
  
  
• "The Virginia Tech H-alpha and [SII] Imaging Survey of the Northern Sky", B. Dennison, J.H. Simonetti, and G.A. Topasna, 2000, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31, 1455. A poster given at the 195th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta GA, January 2000.