An Analysis of the North Polar Spur Using HaloSat

This research was supported by NASA grant No. NNX15AU57G. This research was also supported by the NASA Iowa Space Grant under award No. NNX16AL88H. We acknowledge Steven Spangler, Cornelia Lang, and Casey DeRoo for their useful comments discussions that helped to improve the work. We acknowledge our support from NASA GSFC particularly the work of Thomas Johnson, the hard work of all the individuals at the University of Iowa that helped make HaloSat a success, the Blue Canyon Technologies team for their work on the spacecraft bus and for acting as the mission operation center, and the WFF UHF Ground Station Team for their support of HaloSat in orbit. We acknowledge the contribution from our anonymous reviewer, whose comments helped to clarify the presentation of this work.