The evolution of supernova remnants in different galactic environments, and its effects on supernova statistics

Details The evolution of supernova remnants in different galactic environments, and its effects on supernova statistics The evolution of supernova remnants in different galactic environments, and its effects on supernova statistics

May 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980stin...8026236k&link_type=abstract

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Galaxies, Interstellar Matter, Nebulae, Supernova Remnants, Clouds, Inhomogeneity, Shock Waves, Stellar Mass Ejection, Supernovae

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Examination of the interaction between supernova (SN) ejecta and the various environments in which the explosive event might occur shows that only a small fraction of the many SNs produce observable supernova remnants (SNRs). This fraction, which is found to depend weakly upon the lower mass limit of the SN progenitors, and more strongly on the specfic characteristics of the associated interstellar medium, decreases from approximately 15 percent near the galctic center to 10 percent at Rgal approximately 10 kpc and drops nearly to zero for Rgal 15 kpc. Generally, whether a SNR is detectable is determined by the density of the ambient interstellar medium in which it is embeeede. The presence of large, low density cavities around stellar associations due to the combined effects of stellar winds and supernova shells strongly suggests that a large portion of the detectable SNRs have runway stars as their progenitors. These results explain the differences between the substantially larger SN rates in the galaxy derived both from pulsar statistics and from observations of SN events in external galaxies, when compared to the substantially smaller SN rates derived form galactic SNR statistics.

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