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May 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995aas...186.2007b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 186th AAS Meeting, #20.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 27, p.835
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We present the first high quality far--ultraviolet spectrum of a filament in the Puppis A supernova remnant (SNR), obtained with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope during the Astro--2 Space Shuttle mission in 1995 March. This observation was made possible by the much higher sensitivity of HUT to diffuse emission in comparison to other ultraviolet telescopes. The 1920 s spectrum covers the 825 -- 1850 Angstroms spectral range with ~ 3 Angstroms resolution and shows numerous lines of C, N, O, Si, Ne, and He, including O VI lambda lambda 1032,1038, and C III lambda 977 in the spectral region below Lyalpha . The filament observed is in the eastern region of Puppis A, near the brightest X-ray region, and corresponds to a shocked interstellar cloud. Optically the filament shows strong [O III] emission, characteristic of a relatively young, ``incomplete" shock. However, the HUT spectrum is basically consistent with a steady flow shock model of V = 160 -- 180 km/s and solar abundances, within uncertainties of the interstellar extinction to the filament. Thus, this filament may have a fairly complete cooling zone with little of the coolest ``recombination" zone yet established. Puppis A is only the fourth galactic SNR to be observed successfully in the far--ultraviolet, after the Cygnus Loop, Vela, and Crab Nebula SNRs. This research is supported by NASA contract NAS 5-27000 to the Johns Hopkins University.
Blair William Patrick
Kriss Gerard Anthony
Long Knox S.
Raymond John C.
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