Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted. Version with high resolution figures available at http://www.phys.uu.nl/~schure/CasA_jet.pdf
Scientific paper
10.1086/591432
We present hydrodynamical models for the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant and its observed jet / counter-jet system. We include the evolution of the progenitor's circumstellar medium, which is shaped by a slow red supergiant wind that is followed by a fast Wolf-Rayet (WR) wind. The main parameters of the simulations are the duration of the WR phase and the jet energy. We find that the jet is destroyed if the WR phase is sufficiently long and a massive circumstellar shell has formed. We therefore conclude that the WR phase must have been short (a few thousand yr), if present at all. Since the actual jet length of Cas A is not known we derive a lower limit for the jet energy, which is ~10^{48} erg. We discuss the implications for the progenitor of Cas A and the nature of its explosion.
Achterberg Abraham
Schure Klara M.
Segura García G.
Vink Jacco
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