The SN 1006 Remnant: Optical Proper Motions, Deep Imaging, Distance, and Brightness at Maximum

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2002-08-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208415v1

Astrophys.J. 585 (2003) 324-335

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures. Uses AASTeX5.02 and emulateapj5

Scientific paper

10.1086/345985

We report the first measurement of proper motions in the SN1006 remnant (G327.6+14.6) based entirely on digital images. CCD images from three epochs spanning a period of 11 years are used: 1987 from Las Campanas, and 1991 and 1998 from CTIO. Measuring the shift of delicate Balmer filaments along the northwest rim of the remnant, we obtain proper motions of 280 +/- 8 mas/yr along the entire length where the filaments are well defined, with little systematic variation along the filaments. We also report very deep Halpha imaging observations of the entire remnant that clearly show very faint emission surrounding almost the entire shell, as well as some diffuse emission regions in the (projected) interior. Combining the proper motion measurement with a recent measurement of the shock velocity based on spectra of the same filaments by Ghavamian et al. leads to a distance of 2.17 +/- 0.08 kpc to SN1006. Several lines of argument suggest that SN1006 was a Type Ia event, so the improved distance measurement can be combined with the peak luminosity for SNeIa, as determined for events in galaxies with Cepheid-based distances, to calculate the apparent brightness of the spectacular event that drew wide attention in the eleventh century. The result, V_max = -7.5 =/- 0.4, lies squarely in the middle of the wide range of estimates based on the historical observations.

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