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HI 21~cm absorption spectroscopy provides an excellent probe of the neutral gas content of absorbing galaxies, yielding information on their kinematics, mass, physical size and ISM conditions. The high sensitivity, unrivaled frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kanekar , F. H. Briggs

Using a combination of ground-based and HST imaging, we have constructed a catalog of 179 supernova remnants (SNRs) and SNR candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy M51. Follow-up spectroscopy of 66 of the candidates confirms 61 of these as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 P. Frank Winkler , Sadie C. Coffin , William P. Blair , Knox S. Long , Kip D. Kuntz

We report the detection of near-infrared (NIR) [Fe II] (1.644 $\mu$m) and H$_{2}$ 1-0 S(1) (2.122 $\mu$m) line features associated with Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) in the first quadrant using two narrowband imaging surveys, UWIFE and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Yong-Hyun Lee , Bon-Chul Koo , Jae-Joon Lee , Michael G. Burton , Stuart Ryder

The study of shell-type supernova remnants is a key science focus for the VERITAS TeV telescope array. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered to be the strongest candidate for the source of cosmic rays below the knee around 10^15…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 Brian Humensky

We report on the discovery of two supernova remnants (SNRs) designated G152.4-2.1 and G190.9-2.2, using Canadian Galactic Plane Survey data. The aims of this paper are, first, to present evidence that favours the classification of both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-15 Tyler Foster , Brendan Cooper , Wolfgang Reich , Roland Kothes , Jennifer West

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The strong SNR shocks provide ideal acceleration sites for particles of at least 10^14 eV/nucleon. Radio continuum studies of SNRs carried out with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 G. Dubner

Supernova remnants act as particle accelerators, providing the cosmic-ray protons that permeate the interstellar medium and initiate the ion-molecule reactions that drive interstellar chemistry. Enhanced fluxes of cosmic-ray protons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 Nick Indriolo

We report the first detection of optical emission from the shell-type Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G108.2$-$0.6. We obtained H$\alpha$ images and long-slit spectra using the 1.5-m RTT150 telescope to examine the morphological and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 Gunay Payli , Hicran Bakis , Ebru Aktekin , Hidetoshi Sano , Aytap Sezer

We survey four nearby irregular galaxies for radio supernova remnants (SNRs) using deep (1 sigma ~ 20 microJy), high resolution (~20 pc) VLA continuum data at 20, 6, and 3.6 cm. We identify discrete sources in these galaxies and use radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Chomiuk , Eric Wilcots

The X-ray emission from a supernova remnant (SNR) is a powerful diagnostic of the state of the shocked plasma. The temperature (kT) and the emission measure (EM) of the shocked-gas are related to the energy of the explosion, the age of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-21 D. A. Leahy , S. Ranasinghe. M. Gelowitz

We analyze the HI absorption profile for TeV Supernova Remnant (SNR) G349.7+0.2 based on updated knowledge of the inner Galaxy's structure. We significantly revise its kinematic distance from the previous ~ 22 kpc to ~11.5 kpc, indicating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 W. W. Tian , D. A Leahy

Although some 20--30,000 supernova remnants (SNRs) are expected to exist in the Milky Way, only about 230 are presently known. This implies that most SNRs are ``missing''. Recently, we proposed that small ($\simlt 1^\circ$), faint,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B-C Koo , J-h Kang , C. J. Salter

We report on the first near-IR [Fe II] line imaging survey of extragalactic SNRs. Observations of a sample of 42 objects drawn from an optically-selected catalogue of SNRs in M33 provide evidence for a wide range in the [Fe II] 1.644…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Morel , R. Doyon , N. St-Louis

A supernova (SN) explosion drives stellar debris into the circumstellar material (CSM) filling a region on a scale of parsecs with X-ray emitting plasma. The velocities involved in supernova remnants (SNRs), thousands of km/s, can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Dewey

We present new images of the Supernova Remnant (SNR) G127.1+0.5 (R5), based on the 408 MHz and 1420 MHz continuum emission and the HI-line emission data of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The radio spectrum of the central compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Denis A. Leahy , Wenwu Tian

This paper presents interferometric and single-dish CO observations along with HI data obtained for the oxygen-rich semi-regular variable RS Cnc, in order to probe its circumstellar environment at different scales. With the Plateau de Bure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yannick Libert , Jan Martin Winters , Thibaut Le Bertre , Eric Gérard , Lynn D. Matthews

We have made HI 21cm-line absorption measurements using the GMRT towards 15 directions in the Galaxy which are known to have high random velocity clouds as seen in the optical absorption lines of CaII and NaI. For the first time, in 6 out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rekhesh Mohan , K. S. Dwarakanath , G. Srinivasan , Jayaram N. Chengalur

The appearance of two recent supernovae, SN 2011dh and 2005cs, both in M51, provides an opportunity to derive an improved distance to their host galaxy by combining the observations of both SNe. We apply the Expanding Photosphere Method to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Vinko , K. Takats , T. Szalai , G. H. Marion , J. C. Wheeler , K. Sarneczky , P. M. Garnavich , J. Kelemen , P. Klagyivik , A. Pal , N. Szalai , K. Vida

Our statistics on Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) shows that the electrons temperature ($T$) of hard X-ray and the shock waves traveling velocity ($\upsilon$) decreases with ages ($t$) for all-sort remnants. However, the shock waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-18 Jian-Wen Xu , Ya-Peng Hu

In order to determine the Galactic distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) there are two main difficulties: (i) there are selection effects which mean that catalogues of SNRs are not complete, and (ii) distances are not available for most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 D. A. Green