Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-30T17:24:14.150Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Kinematics of Oxygen-Rich Filaments in Puppis A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. Frank Winkler ,
John H. Tuttle ,
Robert P. Kirshner  and
Michael J. Irwin
P. Frank Winkler
Affiliation:
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
John H. Tuttle
Affiliation:
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Robert P. Kirshner
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Michael J. Irwin
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We have measured proper motions for fast, oxygen-rich knots in Puppis A, which we demonstrate are probably uncontaminated ejecta from the progenitor star’s core. Typical fast knots show motions of 0.1-0.2 arcsec yr-1 diverging from a point 4’ northeast of the center of the radio shell. A model assuming constant expansion fits the data well and gives an age of 3700 ± 300 yr for Puppis A. We also present new spectra which indicate the presence of neon along with oxygen in the fast knots.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium , 1988 , pp. 65 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

References

Baade, W., and Minkowski, R. 1954, Ap. J., 119, 206.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Canizares, C.R., and Winkler, P.F. 1981, Ap. J.(Letters), 246, L33.Google Scholar
Culhane, J.L. 1977, in Supernovae, Schramm, D.N., ed. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel), pp. 29–51.Google Scholar
Dopita, M.A., Mathewson, D.S., and Ford, V.L. 1977 Ap. J., 214, 179.Google Scholar
Elliott, K.H. 1979, Mem. della Soc. Astr. Italiana, 49, 477.Google Scholar
Kibblewhite, E., Bridgeland, M., Bunclark, P., Cawson, M., and Irwin, M. 1984, in Astronomy with Schmidt-Type Telescopes, Capaccioli, M., ed. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel), 89.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nittmann, J., Falle, S.A.E.G., and Gaskell, P.H. 1982, M.N.R.A.S., 201, 833.Google Scholar
Shull, P. Jr., 1983, Ap. J., 269, 218.Google Scholar
Winkler, P.F., and Kirshner, R.P. 1985, Ap. J., 299, 981.Google Scholar
Winkler, P.F., Kirshner, R.P., and Irwin, M.J. 1988, in preparation for Ap. J. Google Scholar