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Jet interaction of SS 433 with the ambient medium
- Source :
- Advances in Space Research. 25:703-708
- Publication Year :
- 2000
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2000.
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Abstract
- SS 433 is a bright X-ray binary with two sided jets moving at 0.26 c. It is located at the center of the supernova remnant W50, suggesting that SS 433 is associated with W50. A large molecular cloud also surrounds the SS 433/W50 system. Recent observations with ROSAT and ASCA have shown X-ray hot spots interpreted as SS 433 jets interacting with the ambient interstellar medium. To verify this hypothesis, we have performed observations of the molecular cloud around SS 433 in the J=1−0 and J=2−1 lines of CO transitions along and perpendicular to the jet axis and have found two clouds with velocities of 32 km/s and 50 km/s respectively. Due to a strong correlation between the 50 km/s map and the X-ray hot spots, we conclude that SS 433 is inside or at the edge of the 50 km/s molecular cloud.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Atmospheric Science
Jet (fluid)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Molecular cloud
Aerospace Engineering
Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Interstellar medium
Geophysics
Space and Planetary Science
0103 physical sciences
ROSAT
Perpendicular
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Supernova remnant
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02731177
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Space Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........44cd5174b35c3de8bd69bf827760fd9b