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Brian J. Williams et al. 2008 ApJ 687 1054 doi:10.1086/592139

Ejecta, Dust, and Synchrotron Radiation in SNR B0540–69.3: A More Crab-Like Remnant than the Crab

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Brian J. Williams1, Kazimierz J. Borkowski1, Stephen P. Reynolds1, John C. Raymond2, Knox S. Long3, Jon Morse4, William P. Blair5, Parviz Ghavamian5, Ravi Sankrit6, Sean P. Hendrick7, R. Chris Smith8, Sean Points8 and P. Frank Winkler9

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We present near- and mid-infrared observations of the pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) SNR B0540–69.3 and its associated supernova remnant made with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We report detections of the PWN with all four IRAC bands, the 24 μm band of MIPS, and the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). We find no evidence of IR emission from the X-ray/radio shell surrounding the PWN resulting from the forward shock of the supernova blast wave. The flux of the PWN itself is dominated by synchrotron emission at shorter (IRAC) wavelengths, with a warm dust component longward of 20 μm. We show that this dust continuum can be explained by a small amount [~(1–3) × 10−3 Msun] of dust at a temperature of ~50-65 K, heated by the shock wave generated by the PWN being driven into the inner edge of the ejecta. This is evidently dust synthesized in the supernova. We also report the detection of several lines in the spectrum of the PWN and present kinematic information about the PWN as determined from these lines. Kinematics are consistent with previous optical studies of this object. Line strengths are also broadly consistent with what one expects from optical line strengths. We find that lines arise from slow (~20 km s−1) shocks driven into oxygen-rich clumps in the shell swept up by an iron-nickel bubble, which have a density contrast of ~100-200 relative to the bulk of the ejecta, and that faster shocks (~250 km s−1) in the hydrogen envelope are required to heat dust grains to observed temperatures. We infer from estimates of heavy-element ejecta abundances that the progenitor star was likely in the range of 20-25 Msun.

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dust, extinction; Magellanic Clouds; pulsars: individual (SNR 0540–69.3); supernova remnants


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Issue 2 (2008 November 10)

Received 2008 April 25, accepted for publication 2008 July 25



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