Dust Destruction in Type Ia Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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2006-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602313v1

Astrophys.J.642:L141-L144,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 1 figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/504472

We present first results from an extensive survey of Magellanic Clouds supernova remnants (SNRs) with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We describe IRAC and MIPS imaging observations at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8, 24, and 70 microns of four Balmer-dominated Type Ia SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC): DEM L71 (0505-67.9), 0509--67.5, 0519--69.0, and 0548-70.4. None was detected in the four short-wavelength IRAC bands, but all four were clearly imaged at 24 microns, and two at 70 microns. A comparison of these images to Chandra broadband X-ray images shows a clear association with the blast wave, and not with internal X-ray emission associated with ejecta. Our observations are well described by 1-D shock models of collisionally heated dust emission, including grain size distributions appropriate for the LMC, grain heating by collisions with both ions and electrons, and sputtering of small grains. Model parameters are constrained by X-ray, optical, and far-ultraviolet observations. Our models can reproduce observed 70/24 micron flux ratios only by including sputtering, destroying most grains smaller than 0.03-0.04 microns in radius. We infer total dust masses swept up by the SNR blast waves, before sputtering, of order 0.01 solar masses, several times less than those implied by a dust/gas mass ratio of 0.3 percent as often assumed for the LMC. Substantial dust destruction has implications for gas-phase abundances.

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