- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/747/L19
- Title:
- A search for SNR 0519-69.0 progenitors
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/747/L19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a search for an ex-companion star in SNR 0519-69.0, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, based on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with a limiting magnitude of V=26.05. SNR 0519-69.0 is confidently known to be from a Type Ia supernova based on its light echoes and X-ray spectra. The geometric center of the remnant (based on the H{alpha} and X-ray shell) is at 05:19:34.83, -69:02:06.92 (J2000). Accounting for the measurement uncertainties, the orbital velocity, and the kick velocity, any ex-companion star must be within 4.7" of this position at the 99.73% confidence level. This circle contains 27 main-sequence stars brighter than V=22.7, any one of which could be the ex-companion star left over from a supersoft source progenitor system. The circle contains no post-main-sequence stars, and this rules out the possibility of all other published single-degenerate progenitor classes (including symbiotic stars, recurrent novae, helium donors, and the spin-up/spin-down models) for this particular supernova. The only remaining possibility is that SNR 0519-69.0 was formed from either a supersoft source or a double-degenerate progenitor system.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/355/44
- Title:
- ATCA SMC Radio Continuum Source. II.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/355/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the classification of 717 radio-continuum sources from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) Catalogue of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). All 717 sources have been categorised into one of three groups: supernova remnants (SNRs), HII regions and background sources. In total, we name 71 sources as HII regions (or candidates) and 21 sources as SNRs (or candidates). Six sources are named as either HII regions or background sources and two are candidate radio planetary nebulae. One source is coincident with an X-ray binary. We classify 616 objects as background sources and present their statistics.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/104/704
- Title:
- A VLA Search for Young Galactic Supernova Remnants
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/104/704
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the attempt to identify very young galactic supernova remnants (SNRs), 290 known compact (<2') galactic plane radio sources were observed at 20cm using the VLA in its 36 km configuration. The VLA observations described could detect supernovae with diameters between 5 and 20"; these would have an age of between 25 and 100 yr. Compact structure was detected in 168 (58%) of the 290 different sources observed; 73 sources (25%) were unresolved or slightly resolved point sources, 21 (7%) were single-well resolved, 56 (19%) were double, 18 (6%) were triple or complex. The large scale structure was completely resolved out for 122 (42%) of sources. Additional observations at 6cm with the VLA in the 11 km configuration were made of 14 sources with apparent shell structures that might have been characteristic of young SNRs. Low resolution observations were made at 20cm of 62 fields where the source was completely resolved out in the high resolution images. Only one source, G25.5+0.2, is a possible very young SNR. New H66_alpha recombination line observations place severe constrains on any thermal interpretation for this object.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/435/437
- Title:
- Brightness and diameters for extragalactic SNRs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/435/437
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper examines relations between the radio surface brightness Sigma and the diameter D (also known as Sigma-D relations) for a sample of extragalactic supernova remnants (SNRs) as constructed from a combination of published data and data from our own surveys. Our sample of extragalactic SNRs is the largest ever devised for the purpose of analyzing Sigma-D relations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/612/A110
- Title:
- Cas A LOFAR and VLA images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/612/A110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Cassiopeia A is one of the best-studied supernova remnants. Its bright radio and X-ray emission is due to shocked ejecta. Cas A is rather unique in that the unshocked ejecta can also be studied: through emission in the infrared, the radio-active decay of ^44^Ti, and the low-frequency free-free absorption caused by cold ionised gas, which is the topic of this paper. Free-free absorption processes are acted by the mass, geometry, temperature, and ionisation conditions in the absorbing gas. Observations at the lowest radio frequencies can constrain a combination of these properties. We used Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Low Band Antenna observations at 30-77MHz and Very Large Array (VLA) L-band observations at 1-2GHz to fit for internal absorption as parametrised by the emission measure. We simultaneously fit multiple UV-matched images with a common resolution of 17" (this corresponds to 0.25pc for a source at the distance of Cas A). The ample frequency coverage allows us separate the relative contributions from the absorbing gas, the unabsorbed front of the shell, and the absorbed back of the shell to the emission spectrum. We explored the effects that a temperature lower than the ~100-500K proposed from infrared observations and a high degree of clumping can have on the derived physical properties of the unshocked material, such as its mass and density. We also compiled integrated radio flux density measurements, fit for the absorption processes that occur in the radio band, and considered their ect on the secular decline of the source. We find a mass in the unshocked ejecta of M=2.95+/-0.48M_{sun}_ for an assumed gas temperature of T=100K. This estimate is reduced for colder gas temperatures and, most significantly, if the ejecta are clumped.We measure the reverse shock to have a radius of 114+/-6" and be centred at 23:23:26, +58:48:54 (J2000).We also find that a decrease in the amount of mass in the unshocked ejecta (as more and more material meets the reverse shock and heats up) cannot account for the observed low-frequency behaviour of the secular decline rate. To reconcile our low-frequency absorption measurements with models that reproduce much of the observed behaviour in Cas A and predict little mass in the unshocked ejecta, the ejecta need to be very clumped or the temperature in the cold gas needs to be low (~10K). Both of these options are plausible and can together contribute to the high absorption value that we find.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/786/130
- Title:
- Catalog of M31 SNR candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/786/130
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a survey of optically emitting supernova remnants (SNRs) in M31 based on H{alpha} and [S II] images in the Local Group Survey. Using these images, we select objects that have [S II]:H{alpha}>0.4 and circular shapes. We identify 156 SNR candidates, of which 76 are newly found objects. We classify these SNR candidates according to two criteria: the SNR progenitor type (Type Ia and core-collapse (CC) SNRs) and the morphological type. Type Ia and CC SNR candidates make up 23% and 77%, respectively, of the total sample. Most of the CC SNR candidates are concentrated in the spiral arms, while the Type Ia SNR candidates are rather distributed over the entire galaxy, including the inner region. The CC SNR candidates are brighter in H{alpha} and [S II] than the Type Ia SNR candidates. We derive a cumulative size distribution of the SNR candidates, finding that the distribution of the candidates with 17<D<50 pc is fitted well by a power law with the power-law index {alpha}=2.53+/-0.04. This indicates that most of the SNR candidates identified in this study appear to be in the Sedov-Taylor phase. The [S II]:H{alpha} distribution of the SNR candidates is bimodal, with peaks at [S II]:H{alpha}~0.4 and~0.9. The properties of these SNR candidates vary little with the galactocentric distance. The H{alpha} and [S II] surface brightnesses show a good correlation with the X-ray luminosity of the SNR candidates that are center-bright.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/174/366
- Title:
- Chandra ACIS survey of M33 (ChaSeM33)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/174/366
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an overview of the Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A Deep Survey of the Nearest Face-on Spiral Galaxy. The 1.4Ms survey covers the galaxy out to R~18'(~4kpc). These data provide the most intensive, high spatial resolution assessment of the X-ray source populations available for the confused inner regions of M33. The initial source catalog, arising from ~2/3 of the expected survey data, includes 394 sources significant at the 3{sigma} confidence level or greater, down to a limiting luminosity (absorbed) of ~1.6x10^35^ergs/s (0.35-8.0keV). The hardness ratios of the sources separate those with soft, thermal spectra such as supernova remnants from those with hard, nonthermal spectra such as X-ray binaries and background active galactic nuclei. Emission extended beyond the Chandra point-spread function is evident in 23 of the 394 sources. Cross-correlation of the ChASeM33 sources against previous catalogs of X-ray sources in M33 results in matches for the vast majority of the brighter sources and shows 28 ChASeM33 sources within 10" of supernova remnants identified by prior optical and radio searches. This brings the total number of such associations to 31 out of 100 known supernova remnants in M33.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/2083
- Title:
- Clumps in NGC 6334 from 450/850um observations
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/2083
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- NGC 6334 is a galactic star-forming region in Scorpius, heavily obscured by intervening dust. The region consists of several major sites of star formation known previously from far-infrared (IR) and radio-wavelength observations. We present images of NGC 6334 obtained at wavelengths of 850 and 450um with the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometric Array at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. These data highlight the distribution of dense cold dust, a particularly striking feature of which is a narrow ridge of emission passing between most of the star-forming centers. We use a clump-finding technique to quantify the distribution of dust emission throughout the region, and we obtain estimates of the sizes, masses, and temperatures of the clump ensemble under simple assumptions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/531/A26
- Title:
- Clumps in W31 from CO and 875um observations
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/531/A26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-mass star formation has been a very active field over the past decade; however, most studies have targeted regions of luminosities between 10^4^ and 10^5^L_{sun}_. In contrast to that, the highest mass stars reside in clusters exceeding 10^5^ or even 10^6^L_{sun}_. We want to study the physical conditions associated with the formation of the highest mass stars. To do this, we selected the W31 star-forming complex with a total luminosity of ~6x10^6^L_{sun}_ (comprised of at least two subregions) for a multiwavelength spectral line and continuum study covering wavelengths from the near- and midinfrared via (sub)mm wavelength observations to radio data in the cm regime.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/878/44
- Title:
- ^13^CO clumps toward the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/878/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a large-field simultaneous survey of ^12^CO, ^13^CO, and C^18^O J=1-0 emission toward the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant (SNR), which covers a sky area of 3.5{deg}x3.1{deg}. The Cas giant molecular cloud (GMC) mainly consists of three individual clouds with masses on the order of 10^4^-10^5^M_{sun}_. The total mass derived from the ^13^CO emission of the GMC is 2.1x10^5^M_{sun}_ and is 9.5x10^5^M_{sun}_ from the ^12^CO emission. Two regions with broadened (6-7km/s) or asymmetric ^12^CO line profiles are found in the vicinity (within a 10'x10' region) of the Cas A SNR, indicating possible interactions between the SNR and the GMC. Using the GAUSSCLUMPS algorithm, 547 ^13^CO clumps are identified in the GMC, 54% of which are supercritical (i.e., {alpha}_vir_<2). The mass spectrum of the molecular clumps follows a power-law distribution with an exponent of -2.20. The pixel-by-pixel column density of the GMC can be fitted with a log-normal probability distribution function (N-PDF). The median column density of molecular hydrogen in the GMC is 1.6x10^21^cm^-2^ and half the mass of the GMC is contained in regions with H_2_ column density lower than 3x10^21^cm^-2^, which is well below the threshold of star formation. The distribution of the YSO candidates in the region shows no agglomeration.
