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Heating of the Interstellar Medium by Supernova Remnants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Donald P. Cox
Donald P. Cox*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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We observe the heating of interstellar material in young supernova remnants (SNR). In addition, when analyzing the soft X-ray background we find evidence for large isolated regions of apparently hot, low density material. These, we infer, may have been heated by supernovae. One such region seems to surround the Sun. This has been modeled as a supernova remnant viewed from within. The most reasonable parameters are ambient density no ~ 0.004 cm−3, radius of about 100 pc, age just over 105 years (Cox and Anderson 1982).

Type
IV. Old Supernova Remnants - Heating of the Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and Their X-Ray Emission , 1983 , pp. 385 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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