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Dark supernova remnant

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-11-18 v2

Abstract

An almost perfect round hole of CO-line emission with a diameter of 3.7 pc was found in a molecular cloud (MC) centered on G35.75-0.25 (l=35.75,b=0.25l = 35^\circ.75, b = -0^\circ.25) at radial velocity of 28 km s1^{-1}. The hole is quiet in radio continuum emission, unlike the usual supernova remnants (SNR), and the molecular edge is only weakly visible in 8 and 24 μ\mum dust emissions. The hole may be either a fully evolved molecular bubble around a young stellar object (YSO), or a relic of a radio-quiet SNR that has already stopped expansion after rapid evolution in the dense MC as a buried SNR. Because G35.75 exhibits quite different properties from YSO-driven bubbles of the same size, we prefer the latter interpretation. Existence of such a "dark" SNR would affect the estimation of the supernova rate, and therefore the star formation history in the Galaxy.

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@article{arxiv.2010.05413,
  title  = {Dark supernova remnant},
  author = {Yoshiaki Sofue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.05413},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

PASJ Letters, accepted, 5 pages, 6 figures

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