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It is now well established that Kepler's supernova remnant is the result of a Type Ia explosion. With an age of 407 years, and an angular diameter of ~ 4', Kepler is estimated to be between 3.0 and 7.0 kpc distant. Unlike other Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Daniel J. Patnaude , Carles Badenes , Sangwook Park , J. Martin Laming

G1.9+0.3 is the youngest known Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), with an estimated supernova (SN) explosion date of about 1900, and most likely located near the Galactic Center. Only the outermost ejecta layers with free-expansion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 K. J. Borkowski , S. P. Reynolds , U. Hwang , D. A. Green , R. Petre , K. Krishnamurthy , R. Willett

The Milky Way's center is the closest galaxy nucleus and the most extreme environment of the Galaxy. Although its volume is less than 1% of that of the Galactic disk, up to 10% of all new-born stars in the Galaxy in the past 100 Myr formed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-07 Francisco Nogueras-Lara , Rainer Schödel , Nadine Neumayer

Most old supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Milky Way have not yet been identified. Considering their large potential number and the sufficient momentum-energy transfer to the interstellar medium (ISM), they are a key part of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-07 Xin Zhou , Yang Su , Ji Yang , Yang Chen , Zhibo Jiang

We present imaging and spectral studies of the supernova remnant (SNR) Sagittarius (Sgr) A East from deep observations with the {\it Chandra X-Ray Observatory}. The spatially-resolved spectral analysis of Sgr A East reveals the presence of…

Sub-arcsecond radio continuum observations of the Galactic center region at $\lambda$6 and 2cm reveal a 0.5$^{\prime\prime}$ diameter source with a shell-like morphology. This source is linearly polarized at a level of 16% at $\lambda$6cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Yusef-Zadeh , W. D. Cotton , S. P. Reynolds

We report on the X-ray emission from the shell-like, non-thermal radio source Sgr A East located in the inner few parsecs of the Galaxy based on observations made with the ACIS detector on board Chandra. This is the first time Sgr A East…

It is often assumed that the strong gravitational field of a super-massive black hole disrupts an adjacent molecular cloud preventing classical star formation in the deep potential well of the black hole. Yet, young stars have been observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-10 B. Jalali , F. I. Pelupessy , A. Eckart , S. Portegies Zwart , N. Sabha , A. Borkar , J. Moultaka , K. Mužić , L. Moser

We report the ASKAP discovery of a new Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) candidate G308.73+1.38, which we name Raspberry. This new SNR candidate has an angular size of 20.7 arcmin $\times$ 16.7 arcmin, and we measure a total integrated flux…

We present a high resolution simulation of an idealized model to explain the origin of the two young, counter-rotating, sub-parsec scale stellar disks around the supermassive black hole SgrA* at the Center of the Milky Way. In our model,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Alig , M. Schartmann , A. Burkert , K. Dolag

We present results from observations of NH_3(1,1), (2,2), (3,3), and (6,6) with the Very Large Array. The data sample the inner 10 pc (4') of the Galaxy and have a velocity coverage of -140 to +130 km/s. The velocity integrated NH_3(3,3)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robeson M. Herrnstein , Paul T. P. Ho

The formation of the massive young stars surrounding SgrA* is still an open question. In this paper, we simulate the infall of a turbulent molecular cloud towards the Galactic Center (GC). We adopt two different cloud masses (4.3x10^4 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Mapelli , T. Hayfield , L. Mayer , J. Wadsley

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

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

In recent works, through observations of molecular lines, we found that the supernova remnant (SNR) G18.8+0.3 is interacting with a molecular cloud towards its southern edge. Also it has been proven the presence of several neighboring HII…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-02 M. Celis Peña , Sergio Paron

Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergei Nayakshin , Alexander Hobbs

We probe the environmental properties of X-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) at various points along their evolutionary journey, especially the S-T phase, and their conformance with theoretically derived models of SNR evolution. The remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Chris Albert , Vikram V Dwarkadas

The origin of the molecular clouds orbiting SgrA* is one of the most debated questions about our Galactic Centre. Here, we present the hydrodynamic simulation of a molecular cloud infalling towards SgrA*, performed with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Alessandro Ballone , Michela Mapelli , Alessandro Alberto Trani

Deposition of a massive ($10^4$ to $10^5 \msun$) giant molecular cloud (GMC) into the inner parsec of the Galaxy is widely believed to explain the origin of over a hundred unusually massive young stars born there $\sim 6$ Myr ago. An…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin

Fast radio burst (FRB) 191001 is localised at the spiral arm of a highly star-forming galaxy with an observed dispersion measure (DM) of 507 pc cm$^{-3}$. Subtracting the contributions of the intergalactic medium and our Milky Way Galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Esha Kundu