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Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MMSNRs) are characterized by a shell-like morphology in the radio and centrally-peaked thermal emission in the X-ray band. The nature of this peculiar class of supernova remnants (SNRs) remains a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexandros Chiotellis , Emmanouil Zapartas , Dominique M. -A. Meyer

Wide-field H-alpha images of the Galactic plane have revealed a new supernova remnant (SNR) nearly three degrees in diameter centred at l = 107.0, b = +9.0. Deep and higher resolution H-alpha and [O III] 5007 Ang images show dozens of…

Supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 is well known for its bright TeV gamma-ray emission with shell-like morphology. To constrain the hydrodynamical evolution, we have performed six times observations of the northwestern (NW) shell with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Naomi Tsuji , Yasunobu Uchiyama

Hadron emission from supernova remnant (SNR)-molecular cloud (MC) association systems has been widely regarded as a probe of the shock-accelerated cosmic-ray protons. Here, we report on the detection of a {\gamma}-ray emission source, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Bing Liu , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Gao-Yuan Zhang , Yi Xing , Thomas G. Pannuti

We present results from deep Chandra observations of the young Type Ia supernova remnant (SNR) 0509-68.7, also known as N103B, located in the Large Magellanic cloud (LMC). The remnant displays an asymmetry in brightness, with the western…

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) hosts a rich and varied population of supernova remnants (SNRs). Optical, X-ray, and radio observations are required to identify these SNRs, as well as to ascertain the various processes responsible for the…

There are about 70 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) that are now confirmed or suggested to be in physical contact with molecular clouds (MCs) with six kinds of evidence of multiwavelength observations. Recent detailed CO-line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yang Chen , Bing Jiang , Ping Zhou , Yang Su , Xin Zhou , Hui Li , Xiao Zhang

The high sensitivity of the XMM-Newton instrumentation offers the opportunity to study faint and extended sources in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in detail. The ROSAT PSPC survey of the LMC has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. -H. Grondin , M. Sasaki , F. Haberl , W. Pietsch , E. J. Crawford , M. D. Filipovic , L. M. Bozzetto , S. Points , R. C. Smith

The young shell-type supernova remnant RCW 103 has peculiar properties in the X-ray morphology obtained with Chandra. The southeastern shell is more brighter in the X-rays, and the curved border of the shell in this region is more flatten…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Chun-Yan Lu , Jing-Wen Yan , Lu Wen , Jun Fang

We report on CO and HI studies of the mixed-morphology supernova remnant (SNR) G346.6$-$0.2. We find a wind-blown bubble along the radio continuum shell with an expansion velocity of $\sim10$ km s$^{-1}$, which was likely formed by strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 H. Sano , H. Suzuki , K. K. Nobukawa , M. D. Filipović , Y. Fukui , T. J. Moriya

HESS J1825-137 is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) whose TeV emission extends across ~1 deg. Its large asymmetric shape indicates that its progenitor supernova interacted with a molecular cloud located in the north of the PWN as detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-04 F. Voisin , G. Rowell , M. G. Burton , A. Walsh , Y. Fukui , F. Aharonian

Hadronic $\gamma$-ray sources associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) can serve as stopwatches for the escape of cosmic rays from SNRs, which gradually develops from highest-energy particles to lowest-energy particles with time. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Paul K. H. Yeung , Aya Bamba , Hidetoshi Sano

We report new CO observations and a detailed molecular-line study of the mixed morphology (MM) supernova remnant (SNR) G359.1-0.5, which contains six OH (1720 MHz) masers along the radio shell, indicative of shock-cloud interaction.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 L. K. Eppens , E. M. Reynoso , J. Lazendic-Galloway , J. A. Combi , J. F. Albacete Colombo , -

We present a detailed study of molecular gas toward the supernovae remnant G347.3-0.5 (J1713.7-3946) obtained with the 4m mm/sub-mm telescope NANTEN . This study has revealed that several intensity peaks and the overall distribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Moriguchi , K. Tamura , Y. Tawara , H. Sasago , K. Yamaoka , T. Onishi , Y. Fukui

We carried out new $^{12}$CO($J$ = 1-0, 3-2) observations of a N63A supernova remnant (SNR) from the LMC using ALMA and ASTE. We find three giant molecular clouds toward the northeast, east, and near the center of the SNR. Using the ALMA…

With the entire Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) mapped by the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory, we were able to search 8-250 micron images in order to identify infrared (IR) emission associated with SMC supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Mikako Matsuura , Victoria Ayley , Hannah Chawner , M. D. Filipovic , Warren Reid , F. D. Priestley , Andy Rigby , M. J. Barlow , Haley E. Gomez

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered to be sites of Galactic cosmic ray (CR) acceleration. Vela is one of the nearest Galactic composite SNRs to Earth accompanied by the Vela pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) Vela X. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Iurii Sushch , Bohdan Hnatyk

Deep Halpha images of portions of a faint 3 x 4 degree Halpha shell centered at l = 159.6 deg, b = 7.3 deg seen on the Virginia Tech Spectral Line Survey images revealed the presence of several thin emission filaments along its eastern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Robert Fesen , Dan Milisavljevic

A field of ~38'x38' around the supernova remnant (SNR) G349.7+0.2 has been surveyed in the CO J=1-0 transition with the 12 Meter Telescope of the NRAO, using the On-The-Fly technique. The resolution of the observations is 54". We have found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Estela M. Reynoso , Jeffrey G. Mangum

We report the detection of molecular clouds around the X-ray bright interior feature in the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) CTB 109 (G109.1-1.0). This feature, called the Lobe, has been previously suggested to be the result of an…