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Ghosts of Eruptions Past: Searching for Historical Galactic Supernovae using Variable Thermal Dust Echoes and Machine Learning

  • Authors: Justin Vega, Kishalay De, Ashish Mahabal, Jacob E. Jencson, Viraj R. Karambelkar, Armin Rest, Megan Masterson

Justin Vega et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

(Left) All-sky map of the test statistic Z (color bar; see text) quantifying the statistical excess of echo candidates in each sky pixel of ≈2 deg2. The location of the Cas A remnant is marked. (Right) Histogram of the estimated surface brightness of echo candidates within ≈3 of Cas A (Figure 5) in the W1 and W2 bands. The distributions drop off sharply at ≈21 Vega mag arcsec−2 and ≈20 Vega mag arcsec−2 in the W1 and W2 bands, respectively.

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