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WHISP

(Westerbork Observations of Neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and Spiral Galaxies)
(1990s/2000s radio survey mapping HI density and velocity)

WHISP (for Westerbork Observations of Neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and Spiral Galaxies) was a 1990s/2000s astronomical survey mapping the density and velocity of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) within hundreds of galaxies, using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT).


(survey,HI,galaxies,past)
Further reading:
https://www.astro.rug.nl/~whisp/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ASPC..240..451V/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002A%26A...390..829S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.416.2415H/abstract

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