Iron Needles in Supernova Remnants?

Details Iron Needles in Supernova Remnants? Iron Needles in Supernova Remnants?

2005-05-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505557v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, 2 figures, accepted to MNRAS, replacement due to updated references

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It has been suggested by Dwek (2004) that iron needles could explain the submillimetre emission from the Cas A supernova remnant (SNR) with only a very small total mass. We investigate whether a similar model holds for the Kepler supernova remnant, and find that its emission could indeed be explained by a dust mass of less than 10^-2 M_sun dependent on the axial ratio (l/a) of the needles - which we constrain to be less than 700. But the implied needle model for Kepler is inconsistent with that suggested for Cas A since either the needles would have to have a resistivity one or two orders of magnitude greater than those in Cas A or the electron density in Kepler's shocked plasma must be 40 times greater than suggested by X-ray observations. An additional problem with the needle model is that the implied thickness of the needles seems to be implausibly small, if the emission properties are calculated under the usual approximations.

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