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The Kinematic Structure of the Supergiant Shell LMC 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Sean Points ,
You-Hua Chu ,
Sungeun Kim ,
Robert Gruendl ,
R. Chris Smith ,
Steve Snowden  and
Wolfgang Brandner
Sean Points
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
You-Hua Chu
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Sungeun Kim
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Robert Gruendl
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
R. Chris Smith
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Steve Snowden
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Wolfgang Brandner
Affiliation:
JPL/IPAC, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

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LMC2 was one of the first supergiant shells in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to be identified, based on the detection of long, curved Hα filaments extending over 900 pc (Goudis & Meaburn 1978). LMC 2 is located to the east of the active star formation region south of 30 Doradus. LMC 2 is a spectacular supergiant shell in the LMC, having the most coherent filamentary structure and the highest X-ray surface brightness. As shown in Fig. 1, the diffuse X-ray emission from LMC 2 is bounded by the Hα filaments in the north and east. A bright X-ray arc is seen in the southwest quadrant, extending from N 158 and N 159.

Type
Part 2. Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 156 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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