scholarly journals HI Supergiant Shells in the Large Magellanic Cloud

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kim ◽  
L. Staveley-Smith ◽  
R. J. Sault ◽  
M. J. Kesteven ◽  
D. McConnell ◽  
...  

AbstractThe recently completed HI mosaic survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (Kim et al. 1997) reveals complex structure in the interstellar medium, including filaments, arcs, holes and shells. We have catalogued giant and supergiant HI shells and searched for correlations with Hα emission, using a new image taken with a camera lens mounted on the 16-inch telescope at Siding Spring Observatory.

1991 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 401-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas S. De Boer

General aspects of ISM studies using absorption line studies are given and available data are reviewed. Topics are: galactic foreground gas, individual fields in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and MC coronae. Overall investigations are discussed. It is demonstrated that the metals in the gas of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are a factor of 3 and 10, respectively, in abundance below solar levels. The depletion pattern in the LMC is similar to that of the Milky Way.


1999 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 154-155
Author(s):  
Adeline Caulet

The interstellar medium of LMC2, a well studied supershell in the Large Magellanic Cloud, has been probed in UV and optical absorption lines. The data allow to derive the kinematics, abundances and depletions of gas clouds in this supershell. The relative gas-phase abundances of observed elements with respect to sulphur are useful to determine the origins of the supershell absorption-line clouds.


1988 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 383-386
Author(s):  
James R. Graham ◽  
A. Evans ◽  
J.S. Albinson ◽  
M.F. Bode ◽  
W.P.S. Meikle

AbstractIRAS additional observations show that luminous (104−105 L⊙) far-IR sources are associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) supernova remnants N63A, N49, N49B, and N186D. Comparison of the IRAS and X-ray data shows that a substantial fraction of the IR emission from three of the SNRs can be accounted for by collisionally heated dust. The ratio of dust-grain cooling to total atomic cooling is ~10 in X-ray emitting gas (T~106 K). We show why dust cooling does not dominate, but probably speeds SNR evolution in an inhomogeneous interstellar medium.


2020 ◽  
Vol 497 (3) ◽  
pp. 3234-3250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego A Farias ◽  
Alejandro Clocchiatti ◽  
Tyrone E Woods ◽  
Armin Rest

ABSTRACT Supersoft X-rays sources (SSSs) have been proposed as potential Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors. If such objects are indeed persistently X-ray luminous and embedded in sufficiently dense interstellar medium (ISM), they will be surrounded by extended nebular emission. These nebulae should persist even long after an SN Ia explosion, due to the long recombination and cooling times involved. With this in mind, we searched for nebular [O iii] emission around four SSSs and three SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using the 6.5-m Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and the imacs camera. We confirm that, out of the four SSS candidates, only CAL 83 can be associated with an [O iii] nebula. The [O iii] luminosity for the other objects is constrained to ≲17 per cent of that of CAL 83 at 6.8 pc from the central source. Models computed with the photoionization code cloudy indicate that either the ISM densities in the environments of CAL 87, RX J0550.0-7151, and RX J0513.9-6951 must be significantly lower than surrounding CAL 83 or the average X-ray luminosities of these sources over the last ≲10  000 yr must be significantly lower than presently observed, in order to be consistent with the observed luminosity upper limits. For the three SNRs we consider (all with ages <1000 yr), our [O iii] flux measurements together with the known surrounding ISM densities strongly constrain the ionizing luminosity of their progenitors in the last several thousand years, independent of the progenitor channel.


1984 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 89-90
Author(s):  
J. V. Feitzinger

Nearly all places in the LMC where ring nebulae or shell structures in the neutral or ionized interstellar medium are observed, an OB association and/or WR-stars can be located (Braunsfurth, Feitzinger, 1983). Several mechanisms have been propsoed to generate shell or bubble structures: stellar winds, supernovae explosions, evolving HII regions, sequential starformation, collapsing hydrogen clouds interacting with stellar winds and radiation pressure. Ordered motions resulting in a shell or bubble structure are the result of almost any point like energy injection into the interstellar medium. Therefore all the mechanisms result in similar morphological structures, thus similar shapes can have heterogeneous origins.


1991 ◽  
Vol 374 ◽  
pp. 475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Wang ◽  
T. Hamilton ◽  
D. J. Helfand ◽  
X. Wu

2015 ◽  
Vol 799 (1) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maša Lakićević ◽  
Jacco Th. van Loon ◽  
Margaret Meixner ◽  
Karl Gordon ◽  
Caroline Bot ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 446 (3) ◽  
pp. 2490-2504 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Naslim ◽  
F. Kemper ◽  
S. C. Madden ◽  
S. Hony ◽  
Y.- H. Chu ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 919-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Bernard ◽  
William T. Reach ◽  
Deborah Paradis ◽  
Margaret Meixner ◽  
Roberta Paladini ◽  
...  

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