A sheet description of the emission from middle-aged supernova remnants
A sheet description of the emission from middle-aged supernova remnants
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中年超新星遗迹发射的表格描述
DOI:
10.1086/165049
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发表时间:
1987
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通讯作者:
J. J. Hester
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作者:
J. J. Hester
The hypothesis that sheetlike shock fronts propagating into large clouds immersed in a fairly uniform intercloud medium can provide a consistent picture accounting for essentially all the observational data for the Cygnus Loop SNR is considered. Filaments are interpreted as line-of-sight projections of portions of the sheet. Variations in the projection of the shock velocity along the line of sight lead naturally to turbulent velocities consistent with observation. An analog model of a large, distorted, bumpy shock front is presented and shown to produce the observed morphology of the remnant's prominent optical filaments. Comparison with the observed morphology supports the idea that regions of optical emission lie on the local outer boundary of the shell and have not been engulfed by the blast wave. Bright X-ray emission arises when the blast wave encounters a preshock medium with an intermediate density higher than average for the adiabatic portion of the remnant, but still lower than that required for the shock to become radiative. 43 references.