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MUSE-based emission-line maps of the spiral galaxy NGC 4030 reveal the existence of unresolved sources with forbidden line emission enhanced with respect to those seen in its own HII regions. This study reports our efforts to detect and…

A combination of archival multi-frequency radio observations with narrow-band HAlpha optical imagery and new confirmatory optical spectroscopy have shown that candidate supernova remnant G6.31+0.54 can now be confirmed as part of a Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker , D. J. Frew

Determination of the explosion type of supernova remnants (SNRs) can be challenging, as SNRs are hundreds to thousands of years old and supernovae (SNe) are classified based on spectral properties days after explosion. Previous studies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Charee L. Peters , Laura A. Lopez , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Keivan G. Stassun , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

The supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443 is one of the best-studied Galactic SNRs at many wavelengths. It is interacting with a very complex environment, including the SNR G189.6+3.3 and HII regions. In this paper, we observed IC 443 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Hicran Bakis , Gunay Payli , Ebru Aktekin , Hidetoshi Sano , Aytap Sezer

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. The detection of non-thermal emission from SNRs demonstrates the presence of energetic particles, but direct signatures of protons and other ions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) data have provided another window to search for supernova remnants (SNRs). In reexamining this data archive, a list of unidentified extended X-ray objects have been suggested as promising SNR candidate. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Y. Hui , K. A. Seo , R. H. H. Huang , L. Trepl , Y. J. Woo , T. -N. Lu , A. K. H. Kong , F. M. Walter

3C 396 is a composite supernova remnant (SNR), consisting of a central pulsar wind nebula (PWN) and a bright shell in the west, which is known to be interacting with molecular clouds (MCs). We present a study of X-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Aytap Sezer , Tulun Ergin , Nergis Cesur , Shuta J. Tanaka , Shota Kisaka , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the late stages of supernovae before their merging into the surrounding medium. Oxygen-rich supernova remnants represent a rare subtype with strong visible light oxygen emission. Aims. We present a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Timo Kravtsov , Joseph P. Anderson , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Keiichi Maeda , Seppo Mattila

We use observations of the continuum radio emission at 1420, 820, 408, 34.5 and 22 MHz to estimate the mean brightness temperatures of the HB 21 supernova remnant (SNR) at five frequencies. We also presented mean spectral index of HB 21.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-09 D. Borka , V. Borka Jovanović , D. Urošević

We present and interpret new X-ray data for M33SNR21, the brightest X-ray supernova remnant (SNR) in M33. The SNR is in seen projection against (and appears to be interacting with) the bright HII region NGC592. Data for this source were…

CTB 80 (G69.0+2.7) is a relatively old (50--80 kyr) supernova remnant (SNR) with a complex radio morphology showing three extended radio arms and a radio and X-ray nebula near the location of the pulsar PSR B1951+32. We report on a study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 M. Araya , C. Herrera

We present results from deep Chandra observations of the young Type Ia supernova remnant (SNR) 0509-68.7, also known as N103B, located in the Large Magellanic cloud (LMC). The remnant displays an asymmetry in brightness, with the western…

We aim to study the spatial distribution of the physical and chemical properties of the X-ray emitting plasma of the supernova remnant G272.2-3.2, in order to get important constraints on its ionization stage, on the progenitor supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Sánchez-Ayaso , J. A. Combi , F. Bocchino , J. F. Albacete-Colombo , J. López-Santiago , J. Martí , E. Castro

We present the Chandra results of AX J1843.8-0352, a supernova remnant (SNR) recently identified with ASCA. Chandra spatially resolved two components from this SNR: non-thermal and thermal ones. The morphology of the non-thermal component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaru Ueno , Aya Bamba , Katsuji Koyama , Ken Ebisawa

During a detailed search for optical counterparts of known Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) using the Anglo Australian Observatory/United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (AAO/UKST) HAlpha survey of the southern Galactic plane we have found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker

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

Most supernova remnants (SNRs) are old, in the sense that their structure has been profoundly modified by their interaction with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). Old SNRs are very heterogenous in terms of their appearance,…

We calculate synchrotron radio emission and gamma-ray emission due to bremsstrahlung, inverse-Compton scattering and $pi^0$-decay from the remnant of supernova which exploded in the circumstellar matter (CSM) formed by the progenitor's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Takafumi Shimizu , Kuniaki Masai , Katsuji Koyama

Less than half of the SNRs within 5 kpc have identified central sources, and only three are identified as the remnants of Type Ia SNe. Here, we report a systematic effort to search for compact central sources in the remaining 23 SNRs of…

We report here on the first pointed X-ray observation of the supernova remnant (SNR) G330.2+1.0. The X-ray morphology is characterized by an extended shell. Its X-ray spectrum is well represented by a single power-law function with a photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Torii , H. Uchida , K. Hasuike , H. Tsunemi , Y. Yamaguchi , S. Shibata