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GMIMS: the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Maik Wolleben
Affiliation:
NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, DRAO, Penticton, BC, V2A6J9, Canada Covington Fellow
T. L. Landecker
Affiliation:
NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, DRAO, Penticton, BC, V2A6J9, Canada
E. Carretti
Affiliation:
INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
J. M. Dickey
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
A. Fletcher
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, U.K.
B. M. Gaensler
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J. L. Han
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
M. Haverkorn
Affiliation:
Jansky Fellow, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
J. P. Leahy
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK
N. M. McClure-Griffiths
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
D. McConnell
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
W. Reich
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
A. R. Taylor
Affiliation:
Centre for Radio Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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Abstract

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The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS) is a project to map the diffuse polarized emission over the entire sky, Northern and Southern hemispheres, from 300 MHz to 1.8 GHz. With an angular resolution of 30–60 arcmin and a frequency resolution of 1 MHz or better, GMIMS will provide the first spectro-polarimetric data set of the large-scale polarized emission over the entire sky, observed with single-dish telescopes. GMIMS will provide an invaluable resource for studies of the magneto-ionic medium of the Galaxy in the local disk, halo, and its transition.

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Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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