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| The Mysterious "Pigs" | Josh Peek | Carl Heiles | 3 to 5 cold, compact clouds at high latitude, v = -30 km/s | paper in preparation | TOGS, VLA follow-up, AO follow-up |
| HI in and near globular clusters | Jacco van Loon | Just let him know | Search for gas in GCs and use them as probes of the Galactic Halo | Previous publication and started analysis of new data | GALFA cubes within a few degrees of GCs |
| Foreground HI in the direction of the Virgo cluster | Mary Putman | Josh Peek | For the Herschel survey of the Virgo Cluster | Some preliminary maps have been made | GALFA cubes towards Virgo |
| Cold dust in the extended gas distribution of M33 | Jacco van Loon | anyone who wants, from the GALFA-HI and M33 Spitzer teams | The final MIPS mosaics of M33 are combined with GALFA-HI maps: a preliminary look shows cold dust in some of the extended HI | MIPS 70 and 160 micron maps are being combined with GALFA-HI cubes | GALFA-HI cubes on M33, and Spitzer MIPS maps |
| Search for shells in the GALFA surveys | Eric Korpela | Shauna Sallmen & some undergrads at UW-Lax | A follow on to a similar thing done with SETHI | Just starting | TOGS, I-GALFA, all cubes eventually |
| An old shell in the direction of the galactic anticenter | Eric Korpela | Kevin Douglas, Shauna Sallmen + undergrads | Shell found in SETHI redone with ALFA+H-alpha imaging | Paper drafts stalled cause Eric's swamped and Kevin can't hit him from there. | A2056 |
| A technique for extracting structure from HI data cubes | Eric Korpela | | Playing with analysis techniques to separate overlapping structures | Beginning phases. Seems to work half the time, but needs much refinement. | Any and all. |
| Putting limits on dust in the Smith cloud | Jay Lockman | Josh Peek | Finding dust in the Smith Cloud | in progress | a2329 |
| MBM 53-55 Cloud Complex | Steven Gibson | Eric Korpela, Snezana Stanimirovic, Carl Heiles, Kevin Douglas, Josh Peek | Detailed structure and atomic/molecular composition of a large "shell" that may not be | data on hand, AAS poster in 2008, currently on hold | TOGS, IRAS, DIRBE, various CO, Na-I absorption |
| Perseus Molecular Clouds | Rene Plume | Lewis Knee, James Di Francesco, Kevin Douglas, Steven Gibson | Atomic/molecular structure of a nearby star-forming region | early GALFA PR images, delay for lack of original PI time, analysis now proceeding | A2174 + COMPLETE CO |
| GALFA-HI & NVSS | Carl Heiles | Josh Peek | Using the NVSS sources to determine absorption through HI | infant-like, but active! | All GALFA-HI |
| Reducing Fixed Pattern Noise | Destry Saul / Josh Peek | | Investigating Fixed Pattern Variability and "Stupid" Basketweaves as a solution. | Just started | Archived TOGS, and maybe new "stupid scans" |
| Cold Atomic Clouds in HI Self-Absorption | Steven Gibson | K.Douglas, others welcome | Census of HISA features at low latitudes (1st quadrant + anticenter), comparison to other ISM tracers | visual ID of many interesting features in TOGS and I-GALFA data; adaption of IGPS search algorithms to GALFA planned | TOGS, I-GALFA, TOGS2 when available |
| Cold Atomic Clouds in Narrow-line HI Emission | Steven Gibson | K. Douglas, others welcome | Census of NHIE clouds, comparison to other ISM tracers | visual ID of many interesting features in TOGS data; suitable algorithms for full-scale search under investigation | All GALFA cubes |
| Very compact HI clouds from GALFA-HI | Ayesha Begum | Nick Ballering, Snezana Stanimirovic | Cataloguing very compact HI clouds by eye | Published | All GALFA cubes |
| New and existing Local Group dwarfs | Jana Grcevich (PhD) | Mary Putman, Josh Peek, Destry Saul | New potential dwarfs identified | Paper submitted | All GALFA cubes, SDSS for optical, follow-up deep optical |
| Disk-halo interface gas | Destry Saul (PhD) | Mary Putman, Josh Peek | Disk-halo clouds cataloged and compared to dust maps | Catalog paper submitted | All GALFA cubes, Halpha, IRAS, absorption line obs. etc. |
| Atomic-molecular transition in the Milky Way | Min-Young Lee (PhD) | S. Stanimirovic, K. Douglas, S. Gibson | Compare theoretical predictions for molecule formation to observational data using GALFA-HI and other H2 measurements | Paper published and follow-up work begun | DR1-F and COMPLETE dataset |
| Origin of Complex C | Wen-Hsin (Tina) Hsu | Putman, Stanimirovic, Peek, Heitsch | Comparison of the Complex C clouds to the Mag. Stream and simulations | Paper published | A2060, simulation data from Heitsch & Putman (2009) |
| Discrete HI clouds from Stellar Feedback | Mary Putman | Josh Peek, Jacco van Loon, Destry Saul | Correlating Saul et al. cloud catalog with variable stars | Cross correlating | DR1-S and DR1-F |
| Cold Leo Cloud | Josh Peek | Carl Heiles, Dave Meyer, Katie Peek | Looking at very interesting cloud in leo as an ISM laboratory | Paper published | a2220 and overlapping data |