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仙后座A内部喷出物的高光谱三维结构

The Three-Dimensional Structure of Interior Ejecta in Cassiopeia A at High Spectral Resolution

Karl Isensee, Lawrence Rudnick, Tracey DeLaney, J. D. Smith, Jeonghee Rho, William T. Reach, Takashi Kozasa, Haley Gomez

摘要:

我们使用斯皮策太空望远镜的红外光谱仪来创建仙后座A超新星遗迹中心区域的高分辨率光谱图,使我们能够对其3D结构进行多普勒重建。负责这次发射的喷出物尚未遇到残骸的反向冲击或星周介质,使其成为探索超新星爆炸本身动力学的理想实验室。我们观察到,O,Si和S喷出物可以形成片状结构以及细丝。来自恒星不同核合成层的Si和O在某些区域的速度空间中是重合的,而在另一些区域则相隔500 km/s或更远。向我们飞来的喷出物平均比远离我们的物质慢约900公里/秒。我们将我们的观测结果与最近的超新星爆炸模型进行比较,发现没有一个模型可以同时再现所有观测到的特征。然而,不同超新星爆炸的模型可以共同产生观测到的内部发射的几何形状和结构。我们使用模型的结果来解决超新星爆炸期间的条件,集中在冲击波结构的不对称性。我们还预测仙后座A的背面将在30年内开始变亮,正面将在100年内开始变亮。

英文摘要:

We used the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph to create a high resolution spectral map of the central region of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, allowing us to make a Doppler reconstruction of its 3D structure. The ejecta responsible for this emission have not yet encountered the remnant's reverse shock or the circumstellar medium, making it an ideal laboratory for exploring the dynamics of the supernova explosion itself. We observe that the O, Si, and S ejecta can form both sheet-like structures as well as filaments. Si and O, which come from different nucleosynthetic layers of the star, are observed to be coincident in velocity space in some regions, and separated by 500 km/s or more in others. Ejecta traveling toward us are, on average, ~900 km/s slower than the material traveling away from us. We compare our observations to recent supernova explosion models and find that no single model can simultaneously reproduce all the observed features. However, models of different supernova explosions can collectively produce the observed geometries and structures of the interior emission. We use the results from the models to address the conditions during the supernova explosion, concentrating on asymmetries in the shock structure. We also predict that the back surface of Cassiopeia A will begin brightening in ~30 years, and the front surface in ~100 years.

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