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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fesen, Robert A
• Neustadt, Jack M M
• How, Thomas G
• Black, Christine S

Titel

Detection of extensive optical emission from the extremely radio faint Galactic supernova remnant G182.4+4.3

Ist Teil von

• Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-07, Vol.486 (4), p.4701-4709

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Wide-field H α images of the radio faint Galactic supernova remnant G182.4+4.2 reveal a surprisingly extensive and complex emission structure, with an unusual series of broad and diffuse filaments along the remnant’s south-western limb. Deep [O iii] 5007 Å images reveal no appreciable remnant emission with the exception of a single filament coincident with the westernmost of the broad south-west filaments. The near total absence of [O  iii] emission suggests the majority of the remnant’s optical emission arises from relatively slow shocks (≤70 km s−1), consistent with little or no associated X-ray emission. Low-dispersion optical spectra of several regions in the remnant’s main emission structure confirm a lack of appreciable [O iii] emission and indicate [S  ii]/Hα line ratios of 0.73–1.03, consistent with a shock-heated origin. We find G182.4+4.2 to be a relatively large (d ∼ 50 pc at 4 kpc) and much older (age ∼ 40 kyr) supernova remnant than previously estimated, whose weak radio and X-ray emissions are related to its age, low shock velocity, and location in a low-density region some 12 kpc out from the Galactic Centre.