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The optical Galactic Plane Hα surveys IPHAS and VPHAS+ are dramatically improving our understanding of Galactic stellar populations and stellar evolution by providing large samples of stars in short lived, but important, evolutionary phases, and high quality homogeneous photometry and images over the entire Galactic Plane. Here I summarise some of the contributions these surveys have already made to our understanding of a number of key areas of stellar and Galactic astronomy.
N.J. Wright, on behalf of the IPHAS and VPHAS+ consortia, see the survey websites www.iphas.org and www.vphasplus.org for a full list of collaborators.
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NJW acknowledges a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship and is grateful to all those within IPHAS and VPHAS+ who have made these surveys possible and contributed to them. Thanks to M. Mohr-Smith for Fig. 7.2.
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Wright, N.J. (2016). Galactic Plane Hα Surveys: IPHAS and VPHAS+. In: Napolitano, N., Longo, G., Marconi, M., Paolillo, M., Iodice, E. (eds) The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_7
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