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Spectrophotometry of the Optical Emission from RCW103

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Maria Teresa Ruiz
Maria Teresa Ruiz*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

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Spectra for five different positions in RCW103 were obtained with the 1.5m and 4m telescopes of CTIO equiped with a SIT Vidicon detector.

From the observed Hα/Hβ ratio we found a variation of about 1.5 magnitudes in reddening for different filaments. The minimum value of Av found was 4.4 magnitudes implying a distance of 6.5 kpc.

Temperatures of about 105 K and densities of 70 cm−3 were found. Nitrogen is overabundant at least by a factor 3.

Type
II. Middle Aged and Older Supernova Remnants
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and Their X-Ray Emission , 1983 , pp. 241 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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