Hubble Space Telescope Observations of High-velocity Ly α and H α Emission from Supernova Remnant 1987A: the structure and development of the reverse shock.

Michael, Eli; McCray, Richard; Chevalier, Roger A; Filippenko, Alexei; Lundqvist, Peter; Challis, Peter M; Sugerman, Ben; Lawrence, Stephen; Pun, Chun J S; Garnavich, Peter M; Kirshner, Robert P; Crotts, A P S; Fransson, Claes; Li, Weidong; Panagia, Nino; Phillips, Matthew R; Schmidt, Brian; Sonneborn, George; Suntzeff, Nicholas B; Wang, Lifan; Wheeler, J Craig

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of High-velocity Ly α and H α Emission from Supernova Remnant 1987A: the structure and development of the reverse shock.

Date

2003

Authors

Michael, Eli

McCray, Richard

Chevalier, Roger A

Filippenko, Alexei

Lundqvist, Peter

Challis, Peter M

Sugerman, Ben

Lawrence, Stephen

Pun, Chun J S

Garnavich, Peter M

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present two-dimensional line profiles of high-velocity (∼±12,000 km s-1) Lyα and Hα emission from supernova remnant 1987A obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph between 1997 September and 2001 September (days 3869-5327 after the ex