scholarly journals Classification of Supernova Remnants and HII Regions from their Recombination Line Emission

1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 539 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Dickel ◽  
DK Milne

H109a, recombination line observations are used in an attempt to classify 46 galactic radio sources as either supernova remnants or HII regions. Long integrations at the H109a line frequency on two well-known supernova remnants (IC 443 and 3C 391) provide improved upper limits on the line emission from these objects. From these results the electron temperature in IC 443 is estimated to be in excess of 1�6 � 104 K.

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Dickel ◽  
DK Milne

The galactic source number designations G35'6-0'4 and G35�5-0�0 in Table 1 should be interchanged. Thus G35'6-0'4 is the supernova remnant and G35�5 -0�0 appears to be an HII region. The authors thank Dr. T Velusamy for calling this error to their attention.


1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
MJ Batty

A search for H 2520( recombination line emission was made by scanning the galactic equator region using the Molonglo radio telescope. Upper limits were established over the range of galactic longitude accessible to the instrument. For the region III ;S 40�, estimates of the background thermal continuum brightness temperature were used to derive lower limits of ~ 2000 K for the electron temperature of the gas along the line of sight. Lower limits for the electron density obtained by considering probable non-LTE effects suggest that the thermal emission over this range is due to low surface brightness HII regions. The observed H 2520( upper limit averaged over the range 270� ;S I ;S 320� just admits the line intensity calculated by Shaver (1975) for the cold cloud component of the general interstellar medium.


1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
ER Hill

Radio evidence for two new supernova remnants in the Southern Milky Way is presented. Some new observations of the known supernova remnant, source 1439-62, and of the Rosette nebula, a shell source but not a supernova remnant, are also presented. The problem of finding model shells to fit the radio observations is considered and it is shown that the radio emission from 1439-62 is unlikely to originate in a shell with spherical symmetry.


1973 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. L143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego A. Cesarsky ◽  
Catherine J. Cesarskly

1975 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
DK Milne ◽  
JR Dickel

Polarization observations have been made of 33 galactic radio sources, mostly supernova remnants, at a frequency of 5 GHz using the 64 m telescope at Parkes. Maps of the observed polarization vectors superposed upon total intensity isotherms are presented for each source.


1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. O'Dea ◽  
Frazer N. Owen ◽  
William C. Keel

We present preliminary results of optical spectroscopy of four radio galaxies with jets (3C 75, 3C 465, 3C 31, and 3C 83. 1B (NGC 1265)). We examined selected regions in and around the radio jets for evidence of the interaction of the jets with their external medium (e.g., entrainment or bending through collision with clouds). We searched for the emission lines expected from ionized gas at a temperature of T ~ 104 K (e.g., Hα and [NII]) as well as those expected at higher temperatures (T ~ 106 K, Fe X (λ6374) and Fe XIV (λ5303)).We found no extranuclear emission in the regions searched in 3C 75, 3C 465, and 3C 83.1B. Assuming values for the pressure in the environment of the radio sources, we found the upper limits to the line emission correspond to model-dependent lower limits to the temperature in the range T ≥ 1.5–3 × 106 K and upper limits to the electron density in the range ne ≤ 5 × 10−2−5 × 10−3 cm−3.In 3C 31, we detected extended Hα and [NII] emission that is peaked on the nucleus and exhibits a velocity gradient. The [NII] emission has a total velocity width of ~800 km∙s−1. It is not yet clear whether any of this emission is associated with the jet (e.g., entrained gas) or whether it is associated with a known dust lane in the galaxy NGC 383.


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