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Kinematics of the Filaments in the Crab Nebula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

G. Münch
G. Münch*
Affiliation:
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

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The Crab Nebula, remnant of the supernova of 1054, may be observed today in the recombination spectrum of the filamentary component, or in the continuous spectrum of the central amorphous mass. The recent optical discovery of a high degree of polarization in the amorphous component has led to a striking confirmation and general acceptance of the hypothesis first advanced by Shklovsky, which considers the continuous spectrum as emitted by relativistic electrons moving in a magnetic field.

Type
Part V: Kinematic Structure of Gaseous Envelopes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 8: Cosmical Gas Dynamics , July 1958 , pp. 1042 - 1046
Copyright
Copyright © American Physical Society 1958 

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