2001/07/31 by D. L. Kaplan, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Hubble Deep Field #Hubble space telescope #Infrared #Optics #Physics #Point source #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Stars #Supernova #Supernova remnant #Telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/338039
24 pages, 11 figures. Accepted to ApJ
arxiv created 2001/10/12 · openalex publication_date 2002/02/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We present Hubble Space Telescope /STIS, Keck J - and K s -band, and VLA 332 and 1400 MHz images of the region around the soft γ-ray Repeater SGR 1900+14. No nonstellar sources were detected at the position of SGR 1900+14, giving 3 σ limits of S 332 MHz < 6 mJy, S 1.4 GHz < 1.5 mJy, m 50CCD ≳ 29.0 mag, J ≳ 22.8 mag, K s ≳ 20.8 mag (point sources), and S 332 MHz < 6.1 mJy arcmin -2 , S 1.4 GHz < 6.2 mJy arcmin -2 (extended emission). Given the very high extinction, the STIS and J -band nondetections are not constraining, but the K s -band limit rules out basic accretion disk models for SGR 1900+14 and is almost comparable in depth to the K s -band detection for the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61. Finally, we report the detection in this field of three new candidate supernova remnants, SNRs G043.5+00.6, G042.0-00.1, and G041.5+00.4.