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Mar 2008
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Spitzer Proposal ID #50698
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The bright guest star of AD185 is the earliest recorded historical supernova (SN), but its remnant has only recently been firmly identified with RCW 86 with help of X-rays and very high energy (VHE) Gamma-rays. RCW 86 is unlike any other historical SN, implicating a Type Ia explosion within a wind-blown bubble. X-ray synchrotron emission and VHE Gamma-rays are produced by relativistic particles accelerated in fast (several thousand km/s) shocks that are present in RCW 86, while slower radiative and nonradiative shocks are driven into the dusty shell swept up by the SN progenitor. We propose Spitzer observations of RCW 86, that will allow us to determine dust properties and physical conditions within both slow and fast shocks. We will determine shock densities in the whole remnant using MIPS imaging at 24 and 70 microns. This will allow us to finally determine whether VHE emission arises from relativistic electrons or from cosmic ray protons accelerated by the SN shock. We will also determine how acceleration of synchrotron-emitting electrons to TeV energies depends on the shock density. We propose IRS spectral mapping in two very different regions of the remnant to perform a more detailed and sensitive study of dust emission and dust destruction under differing plasma conditions, and of line emission produced by radiative shocks. This will also verify the results of the imaging observations, and will allow for quantitative comparison with models for dust emission and destruction in SN shocks. We request imaging with IRAC in the brightest region of the remnant to map emission from the hottest, transiently heated small grains, and to determine their destruction rates. Physical properties and dust content within the shell swept up by the RCW 86 progenitor will help us to constrain the pre-SN evolution of a Type Ia progenitor, a significant step toward understanding of progenitors of thermonuclear explosions.
Blair William
Borkowski Kazimierz
Ghavamian Parviz
Long Knox
Raymond John
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