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Modelling the Galactic Centre Snake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Jennifer Nicholls  and
A.D. Gray
Jennifer Nicholls
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
A.D. Gray
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
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Abstract

High resolution imaging at radio frequencies has revealed several long, filamentary, non-thermal sources in the Galactic Centre region. One of these, known as the Snake, is unique in that it lies outside the Galactic Centre Lobe, and has two kinks along its length, one of which appears to be associated with a small, resolved source. For this work the Snake is assumed to be embedded in a region where both the magnetic field and the particle energy spectrum are uniform. The Snake is then modelled as an enhancement over the background of the particle energy spectrum. Some preliminary results from this model are presented here.

Type
Galactic and Stellar
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 233 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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