Cygnus Loop: A double bubble?

2016/09/12 by J. West, S. Safi-Harb, West, J. +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.03428

4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of "Supernova Remnants, An Odyssey in Space After Stellar Death", 6-11 June 2016, Chania, Crete, Greece

arxiv created 2016/09/12 · arxiv updated 2016/09/13

Abstract

The Cygnus Loop is a well-studied supernova remnant (SNR) that has been observed across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although widely believed to be an SNR shell with a blow- out region in the south, we consider the possibility that this object is two SNRs projected along the same line-of-sight by using multi-wavelength images and modelling. Our results show that a model of two objects including some overlap region/interaction between the two objects has the best match to the observed data.

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