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The low-density region of the interstellar medium (ISM) where the Sun is located is known as the Local Bubble, a cavity filled with high-temperature and low-density plasma that may be created by a series of supernova (SN) explosions over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Guang-Ya Zeng , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen , Ji-Xuan Zhou , Martin G. H. Krause

Pulsar wind nebulae are a possible final stage of the circumstellar evolution of massive stars, where a fast rotating, magnetised neutron star produces a powerful wind that interacts with the supernova ejecta. The shape of these so called…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Meyer D. M. -A. , Meliani Z. , Velazquez P. F. , Pohl M. , Torres D. F.

The Local Bubble (LB) is a hot, low-density cavity in the solar neighborhood, inside which the Solar System is currently located. The X-ray emission from such bubbles is strongly governed by the gas density, temperature, and the effects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Philipp Girichidis , Erika Rea , Ralf S. Klessen , Michael C. H. Yeung , Efrem Maconi , Manami Sasaki , Michael Freyberg , Juan D. Soler

A soft X-ray shadow has been discovered on the periphery of the Loop I supershell in the ROSAT All Sky Survey. The distance, size, geometry and spectral data indicate that it is cast by an annular volume of dense neutral matter which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roland J. Egger , Bernd Aschenbach , MPE Garching , GERMANY

We present results of numerical simulations carried out with a 2D radiation hydrodynamics code in order to study the impact of massive stars on their surrounding interstellar medium. This first paper deals with the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Freyer , Gerhard Hensler , Harold W. Yorke

An analysis of the energy spectra of cosmic rays and particularly the precise data from the AMS-02 experiment support the view about the important role of the Local Bubble in the nearby interstellar medium. It is suggested that the bulk of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 A. D. Erlykin , S. K. Machavariani , A. W. Wolfendale

The evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) is studied, with particular attention to the effect of magnetic fields with axisymmetric two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations. The evolution of magnetic SNRs is the same as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hidekazu Hanayama , Kohji Tomisaka

The explosion of a supernovae (SN) represents the sudden injection of about 10^51 ergs of thermal and mechanical energy in a small region of space, causing the formation of powerful shock waves that propagate through the interstellar medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-04 Gloria Dubner

The present paper discusses the main physical effects produced by stellar rotation on presupernovae, as well as observations which confirm these effects and their consequences for presupernova models. Rotation critically influences the mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Georges Meynet , Andre Maeder

We present the results of numerical studies of supernova remnant evolution and their effects on galactic and globular cluster evolution. We show that parameters such as the density and the metallicity of the environment significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Katsuyo Thornton , Michael Gaudlitz , Hans-Thomas Janka , Matthias Steinmetz

The neutral interstellar medium (ISM) inside the Local Bubble (LB) has been known to have properties typical of the warm neutral medium (WNM). However, several recent neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption experiments show evidence for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Snezana Stanimirovic

We review here the effects of supernovae (SNe) explosions on the environment of star-forming galaxies. Randomly distributed, clustered SNe explosions cause the formation of hot superbubbles that drive either galactic fountains or supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-04 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , C. Melioli , A. D'Ercole , F. Brighenti , A. Raga

The Sun drives a supersonic wind which inflates a giant plasma bubble in our very local interstellar neighborhood, the heliosphere. It is bathed in an extremely variable background of energetic ions and electrons which originate from a…

The importance of understanding the current and historical galactic environments of cool stars is discussed. The penetration of interstellar gas into a stellar astrosphere is a function of the interaction of the star with the interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Priscilla C. Frisch

Leveraging a high-resolution 3D dust map of the solar neighborhood from Edenhofer et al. (2024), we derive a new 3D model for the dust-traced surface of the Local Bubble, the supernova-driven cavity surrounding the Sun. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-12 Theo J. O'Neill , Catherine Zucker , Alyssa A. Goodman , Gordian Edenhofer

The extreme luminosity and their fairly unique temporal behaviour have made supernovae a superb tool to measure distances in the universe. As complex astrophysical events they provide interesting insights into explosion physics, explosive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Bruno Leibundgut

Integral field units enable resolved studies of a large number of star-forming regions across entire nearby galaxies, providing insight on the conversion of gas into stars and the feedback from the emerging stellar populations over…

Thousands of ring-like bubbles appear on infrared images of the Galaxy plane. Most of these infrared bubbles form during expansion of HII regions around massive stars. However, the physical effects that determine their morphology are still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Maria S. Kirsanova , Yaroslav N. Pavlyuchenkov

The age of the Local Bubble (LB) constrains the timescale on which the interstellar medium in the solar neighborhood evolves. Previous estimates placed the age of the LB at \sim 14 Myr, and attributed its expansion to \sim 15-20 supernovae…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Leonard E. C. Romano , Andreas Burkert

The discovery of radionuclides like 60Fe with half-lives of million years in deep-sea crusts and sediments offers the unique possibility to date and locate nearby supernovae. We want to quantitatively establish that the 60Fe enhancement is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-16 Michael Mathias Schulreich , Dieter Breitschwerdt , Jenny Feige , Christian Dettbarn