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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.

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Caption: Figure 3.

Spatially separated ALMA flux densities of the torus (green) and inner ejecta (red). Previous measurements are marked in black (Potter et al. 2009; Zanardo et al. 2013; Lakićević et al. 2012a, 2012b; Matsuura et al. 2011). Measurements at longer wavelengths dominated by shock emission have been scaled to the epoch of the ALMA observations according to the light curve F ν∝e (( t − 5000)/2231) at 44 GHz (Zanardo et al. 2010); the original flux densities at their epochs of observation are shown as open circles. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of the torus is a power law F ν∝ν α with a single index α = −0.8 ± 0.1 (green dashed line). The SED of the inner ejecta is fit well by a model of dust emission—shown here is 0.23 M of amorphous carbon dust at 26 K (red dashed line), and a combination of amorphous carbon and silicate dust (0.24  M and 0.39 M respectively, both at 22 K, two lower magenta dotted lines sum to the upper dotted line).

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