Temperature, brightness and spectral index of the Cygnus radio loop

Details Temperature, brightness and spectral index of the Cygnus radio loop Temperature, brightness and spectral index of the Cygnus radio loop

2011-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/1103.2224v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 tables, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in RevMexAA

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The estimated brightness of the Cygnus loop supernova remnant (SNR) at 2720, 1420, 820, 408 and 34.5 MHz are presented. The observations of the continuum radio emission are used to calculate the mean brightness temperatures and surface brightnesses of this loop at the five frequencies in wide spectral range, using the method we have previously developed for large radio loops. The spectrum for mean temperatures versus frequency between the five frequencies is estimated and the spectral index of Cygnus loop is also obtained. Also, from our results can be concluded that Cygnus loop evolves in the low density environment and the initial energy of supernova explosion was relatively low. The obtained results confirm non-thermal origin of the Cygnus radio loop and show that our method is applicable to almost all remnants.

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