Serbian Astronomical Journal (Dec 2008)

Radio-Continuum Study of the Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud - An SNR with a Highly Polarised Breakout Region - SNR J0455-6838

  • Crawford, E. J.,
  • Filipović, M. D.,
  • De Horta, A. Y.,
  • Stootman, F. H.,
  • Payne, J. L.

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 177
pp. 61 – 66

Abstract

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We present the results of new moderate resolution ATCA observations of SNR. We found that this SNR exhibits a mostly typical appearance with rather steep and curved $alpha$=--0.81$pm$0.18 and D=43$imes$31$pm$1~pc. Regions of high polarisation were detected, including unusually strong ($sim$70\%) region corresponding to the northern breakout. Such a strong polarisation in breakout regions has not been observed in any other SNR.

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