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Supernova Remnants in Giant HII Regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

You-Hua Chu  and
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.
You-Hua Chu
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Illinois, 1011 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street, S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455

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Giant HII regions contain large numbers of massive stars, and hence are expected to contain large numbers of SNRs. Until recently, however, only a few SNRs have been identified in extragalactic giant HII regions. Moreover, most of these SNRs are located at the outskirts of HII regions, instead of the core where most of the stars are located. The low detection rate and the outlying locations of the SNRs may be due to: 1) observational difficulties - the background HII regions are much more luminous than the SNRs in both optical line emission and radio continuum; 2) intrinsic invisibility of SNRs - stellar wind and SNRs may have created a supershell (Mac Low and McCray 1987), and the core of a giant HII region is filled with hot tenuous coronal gas; or 3) a genuine deficiency of supernovae and SNRs in the HII regions (Sramek and Weedman 1986).

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and the Interstellar Medium , 1988 , pp. 201 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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