Abstract
We have detected 27 new supernova remnants (SNRs) using a new data release of the GLEAM survey from the Murchison Widefield Array telescope, including the lowest surface brightness SNR ever detected, G 0.1 − 9.7. Our method uses spectral fitting to the radio continuum to derive spectral indices for 26/27 candidates, and our low-frequency observations probe a steeper spectrum population than previously discovered. None of the candidates have coincident WISE mid-IR emission, further showing that the emission is non-thermal. Using pulsar associations we derive physical properties for six candidate SNRs, finding G 0.1 − 9.7 may be younger than 10 kyr. Sixty per cent of the candidates subtend areas larger than 0.2 deg2 on the sky, compared to < 25% of previously detected SNRs. We also make the first detection of two SNRs in the Galactic longitude range 220◦-240◦.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e045 |
| Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia |
| Volume | 36 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Astronomical Society of Australia 2019; published by Cambridge University Press.
Keywords
- ISM: individual objects
- ISM: supernova remnants
- radio continuum: ISM
- supernovae: general
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