Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ accepted, 11 pages, 2 figures embedded, aas style with ecmatex.sty and lscape.sty packages
Scientific paper
10.1086/306700
We propose simple, explicit, analytical approximations for the kinematics of an adiabatic blast wave propagating in an exponentially stratified ambient medium, and for the onset of radiative cooling, which ends the adiabatic era. Our method, based on the Kompaneets implicit solution and the Kahn approximation for the radiative cooling coefficient, gives straightforward estimates for the size, expansion velocity, and progression of cooling times over the surface, when applied to supernova remnants (SNRs). The remnant shape is remarkably close to spherical for moderate density gradients, but even a small gradient in ambient density causes the cooling time to vary substantially over the remnant's surface, so that for a considerable period there will be a cold dense expanding shell covering only a part of the remnant. Our approximation provides an effective tool for identifying the approximate parameters when planning 2-dimensional numerical models of SNRs, the example of W44 being given in a subsequent paper.
Cox Donald P.
Maciejewski Witold
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