Published 1990
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A new boundary for the Vela supernova remnant
Description
The Vela supernova remnant (SNR), at a distance of 0.5 kpc, is one of the closest SNR to Earth. It was first detected as a conglomerate of radio sources, Vela X, Y, and Z. The remnant was surveyed with the Einstein Imaging Proportional Counter (IPC) in 1979-80. 33 fields covered the Vela XYZ radio source. The resultant merged x-ray image shows the rim of the remnant in the north and east, fades below threshold in the west, and in the south, the boundary extends beyond the observed region. This paper describes the Vela SNR from these observations. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press.
- Imprint Place
- Cambridge (UK)
- ISBN
- 0 521 38105 3
- Imprint Title
- Imaging X-ray astronomy: a decade of Einstein Observatory achievements
- Imprint Pagination
- 348 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 241-245.
Conference
- Title
- a decade of Einstein Observatory achievements.
- Acronym
- Symposium on imaging X-ray astronomy
- Dates
- 13-15 Nov 1988.
- Place
- Cambridge, MA (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 22036136
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- GAMMA ASTRONOMY; IMAGE SCANNERS; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TELESCOPES; X-RAY DETECTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY
- Descriptors DEC
- ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract NAS8-30751; JPL957636