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Dust Mass Associated with the Supernova Remnant IC 443 when Emission Meets Extinction

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-03-30 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

The dust mass of the well-known supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443 is estimated from both the infrared emission and the visual extinction. With photometry to the images taken by \emph{Spitzer}, \emph{WISE}, \emph{IRAS}, \emph{AKARI} and \emph{Planck}, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the dust is obtained after subtracting the synchrotron radiation and considering the spectral line emission. The dust mass is derived from fitting the SED by a two-component model, which results in a warm component of the temperature of \sim 53 K and the mass of 0.1 MM_\odot, and a cold component of the temperature of 17\sim 17 K and the mass of 46 MM_\odot. On the other hand, the dust mass is derived to be \sim 66 MM_\odot from the visual extinction of IC 443 which is identified from the 3D Bayestar extinction map and its coincidence with the infrared emission morphology. Roughly the dust mass derived from the infrared emission and the extinction agree mutually. However, the dust mass derived from the infrared emission can be adjusted to be more consistent with that from the extinction by using different dust opacity property or considering optically thick radiation. In addition, the distribution of dust temperature and mass is analyzed by fitting the SED pixel by pixel.

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@article{arxiv.2202.05174,
  title  = {Dust Mass Associated with the Supernova Remnant IC 443 when Emission Meets Extinction},
  author = {Jun Li and Biwei Jiang and He Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05174},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ