The nature of bilateral supernova remnants

Details The nature of bilateral supernova remnants The nature of bilateral supernova remnants

1997-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707149v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

35 pages (requires aaspp4.sty), 11 JPG figures, 2 PS figures. Accepted to "The Astrophysical Journal"

Scientific paper

10.1086/305146

We present high-resolution radio images at 1.4 GHz of two Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs), G003.8--00.3 (formerly G003.7--00.2) and G350.0--02.0 (formerly G350.0-01.8). Although the two objects are very different in appearance, in both cases the radio emission shows a clear bilateral (or ``barrel'') morphology for which the axis is parallel to the Galactic Plane. The majority of Galactic SNRs have now been observed at high resolution, and one can define a clear bilateral subset of the population. We consider a sample of 17 such SNRs, and find a highly significant tendency for the bilateral axes of these SNRs to be aligned with the Galactic Plane. We interpret this as indicating that ``extrinsic'' effects dominate the morphology of such remnants. Specifically, we argue that the Galactic magnetic field causes these SNRs to appear bilateral, either directly, in the form of magnetic field compression and/or quasi-perpendicular acceleration of electrons in the supernova shock, or more likely indirectly, by pre-processing the interstellar medium to produce density stratifications extended along the Plane.

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