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Dust Production and Particle Acceleration in Supernova 1987A Revealed with ALMA

  • Authors: R. Indebetouw, M. Matsuura, E. Dwek, G. Zanardo, M. J. Barlow, M. Baes, P. Bouchet, D. N. Burrows, R. Chevalier, G. C. Clayton, C. Fransson, B. Gaensler, R. Kirshner, M. Lakićević, K. S. Long, P. Lundqvist, I. Martí-Vidal, J. Marcaide, R. McCray, M. Meixner, C.-Y. Ng, S. Park, G. Sonneborn, L. Staveley-Smith, C. Vlahakis, and J. van Loon

Indebetouw et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 782 L2.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Top row: continuum images of SN 1987A in ALMA Bands 3, 6, 7, and 9 (2.8 mm, 1.4 mm, 870 μm and 450 μm respectively). The spatial resolution is marked by dark blue ovals. In Band 9 it is 0.33 × 0 farcs25, 15% of the diameter of the equatorial ring. At Bands 7, 6, and 3 the beams are 0.69 × 0 farcs42, 0.83 × 0 farcs61, and 1.56 × 1 farcs12, respectively. At long wavelengths, the emission is a torus associated with the supernova shock wave; shorter wavelengths are dominated by the inner supernova ejecta. The bottom row shows images of the continuum at 6.8 mm imaged with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA; Zanardo et al. 2013, 0 farcs25 beam), the hydrogen Hα line imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST; Image courtesy of R. Kirshner and the SAINTS collaboration; see also Larsson et al. 2013), and the soft X-ray emission imaged with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Helder et al. 2013).

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