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The Radio Properties of SNRs in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

B. Y. Mills
B. Y. Mills*
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University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia

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An understanding of the radio properties and evolution of Galactic supernova remnants has always been hampered by the difficulty of measuring distances. A conventional wisdom has developed around a set of ‘good’ calibrators but most workers involved have drawn attention to the uncertainties and the possibility of selection effects distorting results. This major difficulty is completely overcome by studying SNRs in the Magellanic Clouds. Although there is uncertainty in the absolute distance scale, relative distances can be determined to better than 10% and differences of this magnitude are not significant when intercomparing SNRs. There is, however, another set of problems associated with sensitivity and resolution. The Clouds are an order of magnitude more distant than the average distance of Galactic SNRs, thus many of the SNRs are close to or below the sensitivity limits of most of the southern radiotelescopes and, until recently, the resolution available has often been inadequate to separate non-thermal sources from thermal HII regions, so that both flux densities and spectra have been subject to error. Also there are ∼ 1000 extragalactic background sources which can mimic the flux density and spectra of SNRs in the Clouds, particularly when close to or behind HII regions; as a result numerous incorrect or doubtful SNR identifications have been suggested.

Type
VI. Supernova Remnants in Other Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and Their X-Ray Emission , 1983 , pp. 551 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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