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The Spectral Turnover of the “Filled-Center” Supernova Remnant 3C 58: Implications for When Acceleration Occurs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. A. Green
D. A. Green*
Affiliation:
Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OHE, UK

Abstract

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IRAS observations the “filled-center” supernova remnant 3C 58 are used to derived upper limits of 0.4, 0.4, 0.8, and 1.5 Jy for its infrared flux density at 12, 25, 60, and 100 μm, respectively. These values imply a break in the spectrum of 3C58 above a few tens of gigahertz—two orders of magnitude below the break in the spectrum of the Crab Nebula—with a change of spectral index across the break for 3C 58 of more than 0.5. This is similar to previous results for another “filled-center” remnant, G74.9+1.2, from radio observations alone. This implies that their emission is not dominated by a constant injection rate of particles with a power-law distribution. Either the break is due to synchrotron losses in the past, with little particle injection in recent times or it is intrinsic to the acceleration mechanism at work (presumably from a central neutron star).

Subject headings: acceleration of particles — ISM: individual (3C 58) — radiation mechanisms: nonthermal — supernova remnants

Type
Pulsars, Supernovae, and Supernova Remnants
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 142: Particle Acceleration Phenomena in Astrophysical Plasmas , 1994 , pp. 817 - 821
Copyright
Copyright © The American Astronomical Society 1994

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