A Galactic Dust Devil: Far-Infrared Observations Of The Tornado Supernova Remnant Candidate
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY(2020)
摘要
We present complicated dust structures within multiple regions of the candidate supernova remnant (SNR) the 'Tornado' (G357.7-0.1) using observations with Spitzer and Herschel. We use point process mapping, PPMAP, to investigate the distribution of dust in the Tornado at a resolution of 8 arcsec, compared to the native telescope beams of 5-36 arcsec. We find complex dust structures at multiple temperatures within both the head and the tail of the Tornado, ranging from 15 to 60 K. Cool dust in the head forms a shell, with some overlap with the radio emission, which envelopes warm dust at the X-ray peak. Akin to the terrestrial sandy whirlwinds known as `dust devils', we find a large mass of dust contained within the Tornado. We derive a total dust mass for the Tornado head of 16.7 M-circle dot, assuming a dust absorption coefficient of kappa(300) = 0.56 m(2) kg(-1), which can be explained by interstellar material swept up by a SNR expanding in a dense region. The X-ray, infrared, and radio emission from the Tornado head indicate that this is a SNR. The origin of the tail is more unclear, although we propose that there is an X-ray binary embedded in the SNR, the outflow from which drives into the SNR shell. This interaction forms the helical tail structure in a similar manner to that of the SNR W50 and microquasar SS 433.
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ISM: supernova remnants, infrared: ISM, submillimetre: ISM
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