The Discovery of Balmer-dominated Filaments around the Periphery of the Supernova Remnant RCW 86

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Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.4605s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #46.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1333

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Deep Hα observations of the region around the supernova remnant RCW 86 have revealed a faint complex of filaments stretching along almost the complete periphery of the remnant. The optical observations consist of CCD images made with the UM/CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope using narrow-band Hα , [S II], and red continuum filters. The newly discovered filaments show up only in Hα , providing evidence that these are so-called ``Balmer-dominated'' filaments, which are signatures of non-radiative, collisionless shocks. Comparison of the filaments with radio and X-ray images shows large scale similarities with various interesting small scale differences between the various bands.

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