A deep H-alpha image of faint Balmer-line filaments in the northeast Cygnus Loop supernova remnant

Details A deep H-alpha image of faint Balmer-line filaments in the northeast Cygnus Loop supernova remnant A deep H-alpha image of faint Balmer-line filaments in the northeast Cygnus Loop supernova remnant

Apr 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apj...303l..17h&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters to the Editor (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 303, April 1, 1986, p. L17-L19.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

36

Balmer Series, Filaments, H Alpha Line, Supernova Remnants, Brightness, Emissivity, Shock Waves

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A deep H-alpha image of a field outside the optically bright northeast limb of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant is presented. Two filaments which are just visible on the red POSS print form part of two long and unbroken lines of filaments which generally bound a region of diffuse emission and fainter filaments. However, the diffuse emission extends out to a newly detected line of extremely faint filaments 3 arcmin to the northeast. The brightest filaments are resolved into multiple components with widths less than 2 arcsec. Comparison with the POSS print leads to a rough estimate of the proper motion of 6 arcsec per century, although temporal variations in the relative brightnesses of the components of a filament could confuse attempts to more accurately measure the true proper motion. The morphology of the emission strongly suggests that it arises in a single large sheet. No direct evidence is found favoring the existence of the dense cloud cores which have been hypothesized as a way of evaporatively enhancing the X-ray emissivity and producing forbidden line emission in the filaments.

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