The nature of the Vela X-ray "jet"
Abstract
The nature of the Vela X-ray "jet", recently discovered by Markwardt & \"Ogelman (1995), is examined. It is suggested that the "jet" arises along the interface of domelike deformations of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable shell of the Vela supernova remnant; thereby the "jet" is interpreted as a part of the general shell of the remnant. The origin of deformations as well as the general structure of the remnant are discussed in the framework of a model based on a cavity explosion of a supernova star. It is suggested that the shell deformations viewed at various angles appear as filamentary structures visible throughout the Vela supernova remnant at radio, optical, and X-ray wavelengths. A possible origin of the nebula of hard X-ray emission detected by Willmore et al. (1992) around the Vela pulsar is proposed.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912049,
title = {The nature of the Vela X-ray "jet"},
author = {V. V. Gvaramadze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912049},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A