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Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the aftermath of massive stellar explosions or of a white dwarf in a binary system, representing critical phases in the life cycle of stars and playing an important role in galactic evolution. Physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 I. Chousein-Basia , A. Zezas , I. Leonidaki , M. Kopsacheili

By combining the photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric information of the stars in the sightline of SNRs, the distances to and the extinctions of 32 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are investigated. The stellar atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 He Zhao , Biwei Jiang , Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Bin Yu , Ye Wang

We present compiled radio continuum spectra for 200 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) from 220 known and included in Green's (1998) catalog. These spectra include most of the measurements available in literature, as well as multi-frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Trushkin

We present the first public database of high-energy observations of all known Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). In section 1 we introduce the rationale for this work motivated primarily by studying particle acceleration in SNRs, and which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Gilles Ferrand , Samar Safi-Harb

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 an analytical model of $\Sigma-D$ relation for supernova remnants (SNRs) evolving in a clumpy medium. The model and its approximations were developed using the hydrodynamic simulations of SNRs in environments of low-density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-13 Petar Kostić , Bojan Arbutina , Branislav Vukotić , Dejan Urošević

We present results from a study of optically emitting Supernova Remnants (SNRs) in six nearby galaxies (NGC 2403, NGC 3077, NGC 4214, NGC 4395, NGC 4449 and NGC 5204) based on deep narrow band H{\alpha} and [SII] images as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. Leonidaki , P. Boumis , A. Zezas

Distance measurements of supernova remnants (SNRs) are essential and important. Accurate estimates of physical size, dust masses, and some other properties of SNRs depend critically on accurate distance measurements. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Shu Wang , Chengyu Zhang , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Bingqiu Chen , Xiaodian Chen , Jian Gao , Jifeng Liu

We take advantage of the red clump stars to build the relation of the optical extinction (AV) and distance in each direction of supernova remnants (SNRs) with known extinction in the fourth Galactic quadrant. The distances of 9 SNRs are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Su-Su Shan , Hui Zhu , Wen-Wu Tian , Hai-Yan Zhang , Ai-Yuan Yang , Meng-Fei Zhang

We analyze the results of recent measurements of Galactic cosmic ray (GCRs) energy spectra and the spectra of nonthermal emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) in order to determine their consistency with GCR origin in SNRs. It is shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-30 E. G. Berezhko

We compile radio supernova remnant (SNR) samples from the literature for 19 nearby galaxies ranging from the SMC to Arp 220, and use this data to constrain the SNR luminosity function (LF) at 20 cm. We find that radio SNR populations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Laura Chomiuk , Eric M. Wilcots

The study of supernova remnants (SNRs) is fundamental to understanding the chemical enrichment and magnetism in galaxies, including our own Milky Way. In an effort to understand the connection between the morphology of SNRs and the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 J. L. West , S. Safi-Harb , T. Jaffe , R. Kothes , T. L. Landecker , T. Foster

We report the detection of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) in the mid-infrared (at 24 and 70 {\mu}m), in the coordinate ranges 10 < l < 65 deg and 285 < l < 350 deg, |b| < 1 deg, using the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) aboard the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Pinheiro Goncalves , A. Noriega-Crespo , R. Paladini , P. G. Martin , S. J. Carey

We present a multi-wavelength study of the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearby Sculptor Group Sd galaxy NGC 7793. Using our own Very Large Array radio observations at 6 and 20 cm, as well as archived ROSAT X-ray data,…

We report the discovery of up to 35 new supernova remnants (SNRs) from a 42 arcsec resolution 90cm multi-configuration Very Large Array survey of the Galactic plane covering 4.5 deg< l <22.0 deg and |b| < 1.25 deg. Archival 20cm, 11cm, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Brogan , J. D. Gelfand , B. M. Gaensler , N. E. Kassim , T. J. Lazio

The explosion of a supernova releases almost instantaneously about 10^51 ergs of mechanic energy, changing irreversibly the physical and chemical properties of large regions in the galaxies. The stellar ejecta, the nebula resulting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-29 Gloria Dubner , Elsa Giacani

We have carried out a study of the X-ray properties of the supernova remnant (SNR) population in M33 with XMM-Newton, comprising deep observations of 8 fields in M33 covering all of the area within the D$_{25}$ contours, and with a typical…

Using observations from the literature, we show that the non-thermal radio luminosity (L) of supernova remnants (SNRs) is a strong function of the average gas surface density (Sigma) of the galaxy in which the remnants reside, from normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

We have investigated three SNRs in the LMC using multi-wavelength data. These SNRs are generally fainter than the known sample and may represent a previously missed population. One of our SNRs is the second LMC remnant analyzed which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Matthew D. Klimek , S. D. Points , R. C. Smith , R. L. Shelton , R. Williams

Young Supernova remnants (SNRs) with smaller angular sizes are likely missing from existing radio SNR catalogues, caused by observational constraints and selection effects. In order to find new compact radio SNR candidates, we searched the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-16 S. Ranasinghe , D. Leahy , J Stil