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.
@article{arxiv.1609.03428,
title = {Cygnus Loop: A double bubble?},
author = {J. West and S. Safi-Harb and I. Reichardt and J. Stil and R. Kothes and T. Jaffe and GALFACTS team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03428},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of "Supernova Remnants, An Odyssey in Space After Stellar Death", 6-11 June 2016, Chania, Crete, Greece