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We study the spatial correlations between the H$\alpha$ emission and different types of massive stars in two local galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Messier 33. We compare these to correlations derived for core-collapse…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 T. Kangas , L. Portinari , S. Mattila , M. Fraser , E. Kankare , R. G. Izzard , P. James , C. González-Fernández , J. R. Maund , A. Thompson

We present a catalogue of 18 new Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) uncovered in the optical regime as filamentary emissions and extended nebulosities on images of the Anglo Australian Observatory/United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (AAO/UKST)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker , M. D. Filipovic

Fine structure of the density distribution in giant molecular clouds (GMC) around W43 (G31+00+90 km/s at $\sim 5.5$ kpc) was analyzed using the FUGIN$^*$ CO-line survey at high-angular ($20''\sim 0.5$ pc) and velocity (1.3 km/s) resolutions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-02 Yoshiaki Sofue

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the most promising sources of Galactic cosmic rays. One of the principal questions is whether they are accelerating particles up to the maximum energy of Galactic cosmic rays ($\sim$ PeV). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Yutaka Ohira

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) expand into a medium created by winds from the pre-SN progenitor. The SN explosion and resulting shock wave(s) heat up the surrounding plasma, giving rise to thermal X-ray emission, which depends on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Vandana Ramakrishnan , Vikram V. Dwarkadas

We report the results from a spectrophotometric study sampling the roughly 300 candidate supernova remnants (SNRs) in M83 identified through optical imaging with Magellan/IMACS and HST/WFC3. Of the 118 candidates identified based on a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 P. Frank Winkler , William P. Blair , Knox S. Long

We investigate a progenitor mass distribution of core-collapse supernova remnants (CCSNRs) in our Galaxy and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, for the first time. We count the number of CCSNRs in three mass ranges divided by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Satoru Katsuda , Tomoya Takiwaki , Nozomu Tominaga , Takashi J. Moriya , Ko Nakamura

Ongoing searches for supernovae (SNe) at cosmological distances have recently started to provide a link between SN Ia statistics and galaxy evolution. We use recent estimates of the global history of star formation to compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Madau , M. Della Valle , N. Panagia

We have imaged a 1 deg^2 field centered on the known Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G11.2-0.3 at 74, 330, and 1465 MHz with the Very Large Array radio telescope (VLA) and 235 MHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). The 235,…

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

We used the Swedish-ESO Submillimeter Telescope (SEST) to search for CO emission associated with three supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud: N49, N132D, and N23. Observations were carried out in the J=2-1 rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-26 Kenneth R. Banas , John P. Hughes , L. Bronfman , L. -A. Nyman

Shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) exhibit correlations between radio surface brightness, SNR diameter, and ambient medium density. We investigate these correlations, to extract useful information about the typical evolutionary stage of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Bandiera , O. Petruk

We present the largest extragalactic survey of supernova remnant (SNR) candidates in nearby star-forming galaxies using exquisite spectroscopic maps from MUSE. Supernova remnants exhibit distinctive emission-line ratios and kinematic…

The Parkes-MIT-NRAO (PMN) radio survey has been used to generate a quasi all-sky study of Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs) at a common frequency of 4.85 GHz. We present flux densities estimated for the sample of 110 Southern Galactic SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stupar , M. D. Filipovic , Q. A. Parker , G. L. White , T. G. Pannuti , P. A. Jones

Recent X-ray study of middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) reveals strong radiative recombination continua (RRCs) associated with overionized plasmas, of which the origin still remains uncertain. We report our discovery of an RRC in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Tamotsu Sato , Katsuji Koyama , Tadayuki Takahashi , Hirokazu Odaka , Shinya Nakashima

The supernova remnant (SNR) G150.3+4.5 was recently discovered in the radio band; it exhibits a shell-like morphology with an angular size of $\sim 3^{\circ}$, suggesting either an old or a nearby SNR. Extended $\gamma$-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Justine Devin , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Marie-Hélène Grondin , Daniel Castro , Jean Ballet , Jamie Cohen , John W. Hewitt

We present compelling evidence for confirmation of a Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) candidate, G332.5-5.6, based initially on identification of new, filamentary, optical emission line nebulosity seen in the arcsecond resolution images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker , M. D. Filipovic , D. J. Frew , I. Bojicic , B. Aschenbach

Aims. We aim to investigate the molecular environment of the supernova remnant (SNR) G150.3+4.5, and explore its association with ambient molecular clouds (MCs). Methods. We present large-field CO (J=1-0) molecular line observations toward…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-26 Jian-Cheng Feng , Xuepeng Chen , Yang Su , Li Sun , Shiyu Zhang , Xin Zhou , Weihua Guo

We present Australia Telescope Compact Array observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) G309.2-00.6. In a 1.3-GHz continuum image the remnant appears as a near-circular shell, but with two brightened and distorted arcs of emission on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. M. Gaensler , A. J. Green , R. N. Manchester

Our 50 ks Chandra observation of the small radio supernova remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3 shows a complete shell structure with strong bilateral symmetry, about $100''$ in diameter. The radio morphology is also shell-like, but only about $84''$ in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski , D. A. Green , U. Hwang , I. Harrus , R. Petre