The AAO/UKST SuperCOSMOS Hα survey

By Q. Parker, Steve Phillipps, M. J. Pierce, M. Hartley, Nigel C. Hambly, M. Read, H. Macgillivray, S. Tritton, C. Cass, R. Cannon and 12 more. 2005

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The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) of the Anglo-Australian Observatory completed a narrowband Ha plus [N II] 6548, 6584-A survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Magellanic Clouds in late 2003. The survey, which was the last UKST wide-field photographic survey and the only one undertaken in a narrow-band, is now an online digital data product of the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (ROE). The survey utilized a high specification, monolithic Hα interference bandpass filter of exceptional quality. In conjunction with the fine-grained Tech-Pan film as a detector it has produced a survey with a powerful combination of area coverage (4000 square degrees), resolution (∼1 arcsec) and sensitivity (≤5 Rayleighs), reaching a depth for continuum point sources of R ≃ 20.5. The main survey consists of 233 individual fields on a grid of centres separated by 4° at declinations below +2° and covers a swathe approximately 20° wide about the Southern Galactic Plane. The original survey films were scanned by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to provide the online digital atlas called the SuperCOSMOS Ha Survey (SHS). We present the background of the survey, the key survey characteristics, details and examples of the data product, calibration process, comparison with other surveys and a brief description of its potential for scientific exploitation.

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3. Q. Parker
4. D. Frew
5. B. Gänsicke
6. T. Naylor
7. Marvin L. Cohen
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• The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS (2014, background): “This was the last survey using photographic emulsions that the UK Schmidt Telescope undertook.”
• The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, background): “This now means that there is Hα coverage, accessible online, of the entire Galactic plane – given that the southern plane is already available thanks to the UK Schmidt Hα Survey (SHS; Parker et al. 2005), the last of the photographic surveys carried out by that telescope.”
• The Hα surface brightness–radius relation: a robust statistical distance indicator for planetary nebulae (2015, methodology): “These include the SuperCOSMOS H-alpha Survey (SHS; Parker et al. 2005; Frew et al. 2014a), the INT Photometric HAlpha Survey (IPHAS; Drew et al. 2005), the VST Photometric H-Alpha Survey (VPHAS+; Drew et al. 2014), and the lowerresolution Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas (SHASSA; Gaustad et al.…”
• The Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Hα Planetary Nebula Catalogue: MASH (2006, methodology): “This survey of Galactic emission has a combination of coverage, resolution, uniformity and sensitivity superior to previous surveys of this type (Parker & Phillipps 1998, Parker et al. 2005).”
• The optical emission nebulae in the vicinity of WR 48 (Θ Mus): true Wolf–Rayet ejecta or unconnected supernova remnant? (2009, background): “However, with the availability of our high resolution SHS images (Parker et al. 2005), G305.”
• Binary planetary nebulae nuclei towards the Galactic bulge - I. Sample discovery, period distribution, and binary fraction (2009, methodology): “After comprehensive exploration of the SuperCOSMOS Hα Survey (SHS, Parker et al. 2005) the Macquarie/AAO/Strasbourg Hα PNe catalogues (Parker et al. 2006; Miszalski et al. 2008a) have more than doubled the number of PNe towards the Galactic bulge.”