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A SPATIALLY RESOLVED STUDY OF THE SYNCHROTRON EMISSION AND TITANIUM IN TYCHO’S SUPERNOVA REMNANT USING NuSTAR

  • Authors: Laura A. Lopez, Brian W. Grefenstette, Stephen P. Reynolds, Hongjun An, Steven E. Boggs, Finn E. Christensen, William W. Craig, Kristoffer A. Eriksen, Chris L. Fryer, Charles J. Hailey, Fiona A. Harrison, Kristin K. Madsen, Daniel K. Stern, William W. Zhang, and Andreas Zoglauer

2015 The Astrophysical Journal 814 132.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 12.

Rolloff energy Erolloff vs. post-shock density no (left) and shock velocity vs (right) derived by Williams et al. (2013) adopting a distance of D = 2.3 kpc. The velocities scale linearly with the assumed distance, but the trend of Erolloff with vs is independent of distance. Overplotted on the right panel are three curves that represent different dependences of Erolloff on shock velocity vs: ﹩{E}_{{\rm{rolloff}}}\propto {v}_{{\rm{s}}}^{2}﹩ (cyan solid line), ﹩{E}_{{\rm{rolloff}}}\propto {v}_{{\rm{s}}}^{4}﹩ (red dashed line), and ﹩{E}_{{\rm{rolloff}}}\propto {v}_{{\rm{s}}}^{7}﹩ (blue dotted line). The former two trends are those expected if the maximum energy of the electrons is limited by the age of the SNR or by the timescale of the radiative losses, respectively. The latter curve represents the loss-limited case if the B-field strength is not constant (and instead Bvs). The ﹩{E}_{{\rm{rolloff}}}\propto {v}_{{\rm{s}}}^{2}﹩ trend does not match the data, and the age-limited scenario is more consistent with our results. We note that the three n0 > 1 cm−3 points correspond to regions #12, 10, and 21 (in order of increasing n0). The two vs ≲ 2200 km s−1 points correspond also to regions #12 and 21, which are located where the forward shock is interacting with the dense clump known as knot g (Kamper & van den Bergh 1978; Ghavamian et al. 2000).

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