Formation of the Ring-like Structure in the SN 1987A Nebula due to the Magnetic Pressure of the Toroidal Field

Details Formation of the Ring-like Structure in the SN 1987A Nebula due to the Magnetic Pressure of the Toroidal Field Formation of the Ring-like Structure in the SN 1987A Nebula due to the Magnetic Pressure of the Toroidal Field

1997-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711271v1

Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 48, 23 (1996)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages LaTeX, 3 PostScript figures

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Several weeks after the explosion of supernova (SN) 1987A, the UV flash of the SN illuminated a ring-like structure in the circumstellar material at about 0.65 ly from the SN. The interaction between the stellar winds from the SN progenitor is considered to be the candidate for the formation of the circumstellar structure. In the case that the stellar winds are spherically symmetric, the interaction should result in a shell-like structure. However, in this paper we show that the magnetic field in the winds causes an anisotropy which leads to the formation of a ring-like structure. When the fast wind of the blue supergiant phase of the progenitor sweeps up the surrounding slow wind of the red-supergiant phase, the magnetic field as well as the wind material are piled up in the interaction region. Since the magnetic energy increases in proportion to the square of the amplitude, the magnetic field exhibits its effect prominently at the interaction region; due to the magnetic pressure force the material at lower latitudes is compressed into a ring-like structure. It is suggested that this magnetic process can also explain the newly observed pair of rings of the SN 1987A nebula.

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