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We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of 13 supernova remnants (SNR) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We apply both single-temperature non-equilibrium ionisation models and models based on the Sedov similarity solution, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. J. van der Heyden , J. A. M. Bleeker , J. S. Kaastra

Two main physical mechanisms are used to explain supernova explosions: thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf(Type Ia) and core collapse of a massive star (Type II and Type Ib/Ic). Type Ia supernovae serve as distance indicators that led…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Lingzhi Wang , Xiaohong Cui , Hui Zhu , Wenwu Tian , Xiaofeng Wang

A large number of supernova remnants (SNRs) in our Galaxy and galaxies nearby have been resolved in various radio bands. This radio emission is thought to be produced via synchrotron emission from electrons accelerated by the shock that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Joseph F. Whitehead , Dimitrios Giannios

We present the first X-ray detection of SNR 0450-70.9 the largest known supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. To study the physical conditions of this SNR, we have obtained XMM-Newton X-ray observations, optical images and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. Williams , Y. -H. Chu , J. R. Dickel , R. A. Gruendl , R. Shelton , S. D. Points , R. C. Smith

The size distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) can help to clarify the various aspects of their evolution and interaction with the interstellar medium (ISM). Since the observed samples of SNRs are a collection of objects with very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Abdul I. Asvarov

Using a method to discover and classify supernovae (SNe) in galaxy spectra, we detect 91 Type Ia SNe (SNe Ia) and 16 Type II SNe (SNe II) among 740,000 galaxies of all types and 215,000 star-forming galaxies without active galactic nuclei,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Or Graur , Federica B. Bianco , Maryam Modjaz

We present 7 spectroscopically confirmed Type II cluster supernovae (SNeII) discovered in the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey, a supernova survey targeting 57 low redshift 0.05 < z < 0.15 galaxy clusters with the Canada-France-Hawaii…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. L. Graham , D. J. Sand , C. J. Bildfell , C. J. Pritchet , D. Zaritsky , H. Hoekstra , D. W. Just , S. Herbert-Fort , S. Sivanandam , R. J. Foley

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has $\sim$60 confirmed supernova remnants (SNRs). Because of the known distance, 50 kpc, the SNRs' angular sizes can be converted to linear sizes, and their X-ray observations can be used to assess X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Po-Sheng Ou , You-Hua Chu , Pierre Maggi , Chuan-Jui Li , Un Pang Chang , Robert A. Gruendl

It has often been suggested that supernova remnants (SNRs) can trigger star formation. To investigate the relationship between SNRs and star formation, we have examined the known sample of 45 SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud to search for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 K. M. Desai , Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , W. Dluger , M. Katz , T. Wong , C. -H. R. Chen , L. W. Looney , A. Hughes , E. Muller , J. Ott , J. L. Pineda

We use the redshift distribution of type-Ia supernovae (SNe) discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project to constrain the star formation history (SFH) of the Universe and SN Ia progenitor models. Given some of the recent determinations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz

We report a comprehensive statistical analysis of the observational data of the cosmic evolution of supernova (SN) rate density, to derive constraints on cosmic star formation history and the nature of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Oda , T. Totani , N. Yasuda , T. Sumi , T. Morokuma , M. Doi , G. Kosugi

This is the first paper of a series in which we present new measurements of the observed rates of supernovae (SNe) in the local Universe, determined from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS). We have obtained 2.3 million…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jesse Leaman , Weidong Li , Ryan Chornock , Alexei V. Filippenko

To measure the supernova (SN) rates at intermediate redshift we performed the Southern inTermediate Redshift ESO Supernova Search (STRESS). Unlike most of the current high redshift SN searches, this survey was specifically designed to…

We present a new optical sample of three Supernova Remnants and 16 Supernova Remnant (SNR) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud(LMC). These objects were originally selected using deep H$\alpha$, [SII] and [OIII] narrow-band imaging.…

We present a numerical analysis investigating the reliability of type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) delay-time distributions recovered from individual host galaxy star-formation histories. We utilize star-formation histories of mock samples of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Bhavin A. Joshi , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Yossef Zenati

Using a simplified model for the hadronic emission from young supernova remnants (SNRs), we derive an expression to calculate the hadronic luminosity with time, depending on the SN ejecta density profile and the density structure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Vikram V Dwarkadas

Using a sample of nearby spiral galaxies hosting 185 supernovae (SNe) Ia, we perform a comparative analysis of the locations and light curve decline rates $(\Delta m_{15})$ of normal and peculiar SNe Ia in the star formation deserts (SFDs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 A. A. Hakobyan , A. G. Karapetyan , L. V. Barkhudaryan , M. H. Gevorgyan , V. Adibekyan

In the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), a large fraction of the surveyed area was observed more than once due to field tiling overlap, usually at different epochs. We utilize some of these data to perform a supernova (SN)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Assaf Horesh , Dovi Poznanski , Eran O. Ofek , Dan Maoz

We present the results of X-ray spectroscopy of a flux-limited sample of seven middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) (N23, N49, N63A, DEM71, N132D, 0453-68.5, and N49B), using nonequilibrium ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 John P. Hughes , Ichizo Hayashi , Katsuji Koyama