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Title: Unveiling Vela – variability of interstellar lines in the direction of the Vela supernova remnant – III. Na D and Ca II K
Authors: Kameswara Rao, N
Lambert, D. L
Reddy, A. B. S
Gupta, R
Muneer, S
Singh, H. P
Keywords: ISM: lines and bands
ISM: supernova remnants
Issue Date: Mar-2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
Citation: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 493, No. 1, pp. 497-517
Abstract: High-resolution optical spectra were obtained in 2017–2019 with The Southern African Large Telescope of 15 stars in the direction of the Vela supernova remnant. Interstellar Ca II H & K and Na I D lines are discussed in this paper. In particular, the line profiles are compared with profiles at a comparable spectral resolution obtained in 1993–1996 by Cha and Sembach. Ten of the lines of sight show changes to one or more of the components in that line of sight. Changes include small changes (1–2 km s−1) in radial velocity and/or increases/decreases in equivalent width over the two decades between the periods of observation. Changes are more obvious in the Ca K line than in the Na D lines. These changes are attributed to gas disturbed by interactions between the supernova ejecta and the surrounding interstellar medium. A representative time-scale may be 20–50 yr. Small-scale variations in line profiles across the face of the remnant suggest, as previously remarked, that a linear scale for interactions is a small fraction of the 40 pc size of the present remnant.
Description: Restricted Access
URI: http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/7393
ISSN: 1365-2966
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