A synchrotron superbubble in the IC10 galaxy: a hypernova remnant?
Abstract
The nature of the synchrotron superbubble in the IC10 galaxy is discussed using the results of our investigation of its ionized gas structure, kinematics and emission spectrum from observations made with the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and based on our analysis of the radio emission of the region. The hypernova explosion is shown to be a more plausible mechanism of formation of the synchrotron superbubble compared with the earlier proposed model of multiple supernova explosions. A compact remnant of this hypernova may be identified with the well-known X-ray binary X-1 - an accreting black hole.
- Publication:
-
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00359.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0708.0626
- Bibcode:
- 2007MNRAS.381L..26L
- Keywords:
-
- ISM: bubbles;
- ISM: kinematics and dynamics;
- supernova remnants;
- galaxies: individual: IC10;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 EPS figures, Accepted to MNRAS (in Letters)