A Survey for OH (1720 MHz) Maser Emission Toward Supernova Remnants

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Apr 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aj....111.1651f&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal v.111, p.1651

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

150

Supernova Remnants, Masers, Circumstellar Matter, Ism: Clouds

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The satellite line of the hydroxyl radical (OH) at 1720.5 MHz has been searched for in the direction of 66 supernova remnants in our Galaxy with the Green Bank 43-m and Parkes 64-m telescopes. We detect OH emission toward 20 supernova remnants. Follow-up observations with the VLA and ATCA resulted in the detection of compact emission from 8 supernova remnants. We argue that these features are masers and that they are physically associated with the supernova remnants. A model in which the masers are collisionally excited by the passage of the supernova remnant shock through a molecular cloud best describes the data. Thus, in addition to the stellar masers and the masers found in star forming regions, there is now a new and growing class of masers found in supernova remnants. The OH(1720 MHz) line provides a powerful new diagnostic for finding and studying the interaction of supernova remnants with molecular clouds.

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