Point-symmetry in SNR G1.9+0.3:A Supernova that Destroyed its Planetary Nebula Progenitor

I analyze a new X-ray image of the youngest supernova remnant(SNR)in the Galaxy,which is the type Ia SNR G1.9+0.3,and reveal a very clear point-symmetrical structure.Since explosion models of type Ia supernovae(SNe Ia)do not form such morphologies,the point-symmetrical morphology must come from the circumstellar material(CSM)into which the ejecta expands.The large-scale point-symmetry that I identify and the known substantial deceleration of the ejecta of SNR G1.9+0.3 suggest a relatively massive CSM of■1M⊙.I argue that the most likely explanation is the explosion of this SN Ia into a planetary nebula.The scenario that predicts a large fraction of SN Ia inside PNe(SNIPs)is the core degenerate scenario.Other SN Ia scenarios might lead to only a very small fraction of SNIPs or none at all.

Scintillation Dynamic Spectra and Transverse Velocities ofSeven Pulsars

Using a pulsar timing system developed at Urumqi Astronomical Observatory's 25-m telescope, we observed scintillation dynamic spectra for seven pulsars at the relatively high frequency of 1540 MHz over a wide frequency band of 320 MHz. Averaging observations at different epochs, we obtain time scales and decorrelation bandwidths for diffractive scintillation and show that these imply a power-law index for the electron density fluctuation close to 4.0. Assuming this value and that the scattering disk is approximately midway between the pulsar and the earth, we compute transverse velocities for the seven pulsars. These values are generally in good agreement with the proper motion velocities.

Energy Conservation in the Thin Layer Approximation: II. The Asymmetric Classic Case for Supernovae Remnant

Here we extend the conservation of energy in the framework of the thin layer approximation to the asymmetrical case. Four types of interstellar mediums are analysed, in which the density follows an inverse square profile, a power law profile, an exponential profile and a toroidal profile. An analytical solution for the radius as a function of time and the polar angle in spherical coordinates is derived in the case of the inverse square profile. The analytical and numerical results are applied to two supernova remnants: SN 1987A and SN 1006. The back reaction due to the radiative losses is evaluated in the case of the inverse square profile for the surrounding medium. Two models for the image formation are presented, which explain the triple ring visible in SN 1987A and the jet feature of SN 1006.

LAMOST medium-resolution spectral survey of Galactic nebulae(LAMOST-MRS-N):subtraction of geocoronal Hαemission

We introduce a method of subtracting geocoronal Hαemissions from the spectra of LAMOST medium-resolution spectral survey of Galactic nebulae(LAMOST-MRS-N).The flux ratios of the Hαsky line to the adjacent OHλ6554 single line do not show a pattern or gradient distribution in a plate.More interestingly,the ratio is well correlated to solar altitude,which is the angle of the Sun relative to the Earth’s horizon.It is found that the ratio decreases from 0.8 to 0.2 with the decreasing solar altitude from–17 to–73 degree.Based on this relation,which is described by a linear function,we can construct the Hαsky component and subtract it from the science spectrum.This method has been applied to the LAMOST-MRSN data,and the contamination level of the Hαsky to nebula is reduced from 40%to less than 10%.The new generated spectra will significantly improve the accuracy of the classifications and the measurements of physical parameters of Galactic nebulae.

Extragalactic dispersion measures of fast radio bursts

Fast radio bursts show large dispersion measures, much larger than the Galactic dispersion measure foreground. Therefore, they evidently have an extragalac- tic origin. We investigate possible contributions to the dispersion measure from host galaxies. We simulate the spatial distribution of fast radio bursts and calculate the dis- persion measures along the sightlines from fast radio bursts to the edge of host galaxies by using the scaled NE2001 model for thermal electron density distributions. We find that contributions to the dispersion measure of fast radio bursts from the host galaxy follow a skew Gaussian distribution. The peak and the width at half maximum of the dispersion measure distribution increase with the inclination angle of a spiral galaxy, to large values when the inclination angle is over 70~. The largest dispersion measure produced by an edge-on spiral galaxy can reach a few thousand pc cm-3, while the dispersion measures from dwarf galaxies and elliptical galaxies have a maximum of only a few tens of pc cm-3. Notice, however, that additional dispersion measures of tens to hundreds of pc cm-3 can be produced by high density clumps in host galaxies. Simulations that include dispersion measure contributions from the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Andromeda Galaxy are shown as examples to demonstrate how to ex- tract the dispersion measure from the intergalactic medium.

Preface: Stars and interstellar medium

This issue presents proceedings of the ＂Stars and Interstellar Medium＂ section of the All- Russian Astronomical Conference VAK-2017. Sixteen papers （selected from about 70 talks） cover dif- ferent problems related to stars, pulsars, interstellar gas and dust, and star formation. The preface briefly reviews these papers.

The Data Processing of the LAMOST Medium-resolution Spectral Survey of Galactic Nebulae(LAMOST MRS-N Pipeline)

The Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST) medium-resolution spectral survey of Galactic Nebulae(MRS-N) has conducted for more than three years since 2018 September and observed more than190 thousand nebular spectra and 20 thousand stellar spectra.However,there is not yet a data processing pipeline for nebular spectra.To significantly improve the accuracy of nebulae classification and their physical parameters,we developed the MRS-N Pipeline.This article presented in detail each data processing step of the MRS-N Pipeline,such as removing cosmic rays,merging single exposure,fitting sky light emission lines,wavelength recalibration,subtracting skylight,measuring nebular parameters,creating catalogs and packing spectra.Finally,a description of the data products,including nebular spectra files and parameter catalogs,is provided.

On the photoevaporation,dust polarization and kinematics of two nebulae in Sh2-236

In the work presented here,the impact of magnetic field on the dynamical evolution of cometary globules Sim 129 and Sim 130 in the Sh2-236 HⅡregion and the ionized gas streaming out of their surfaces is investigated.The magnetic field morphology in the region associated with these globules is inferred using optical polarization measurements with the Sampurnanand Telescope at ARIES.The nebular emission is probed through radio continuum mapping at 1.4 GHz with the archival National Radio Astronomy Observatory(NRAO)Very Large Array(VLA)Sky Survey(NVSS)data.The correlation of these measurements suggests that photoevaporated gas from the surfaces of Sim 129 and Sim 130 accumulates in clouds and starts streaming along the magnetic field lines.The ^(12)CO(J=1-0)molecular line observations are performed towards NGC 1893 from the 14-m single dish radio telescope in Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory(TRAO).The velocity dispersion in the ^(12)CO(J=1-0)molecular line and the dispersion in polarization angles are considered in the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi formulation to estimate the magnetic field strength towards two Sim nebulae.The average value of field strength is found to be~60μG with uncertainty of 0.5 times the estimated value.

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J1303-631 with 14 yr of Fermi-LAT Data

HESS J1303-631 is an extended TeV pulsar wind nebula powered by the pulsar PSR J1301-6305 detected with the High Energy Stereoscopic System. We present an analysis of the GeV γ-ray region of HESS J1303-631 with about14 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The GeV γ-ray emission, coincident with the very-high-energy source,has a photon index of 1.69 ± 0.09 in 10–500 GeV band, and the GeV morphology has an extension to the same direction as indicated in the TeV band. Moreover, the observed multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution of the nebula is studied with a one-zone time-dependent leptonic model, in which the electrons/positrons injected into the nebula are assumed to have a broken power-law spectrum. The result indicates that the multi-wavelength nonthermal emission can be well reproduced via synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering of the particles.

On the radial velocity calibrations in the LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic survey of nebulae

Accurate radial velocity determinations of optical emission lines(i.e.,[NⅡ]λλ6548,6584,Hαand[SⅡ]λλ6717,6731)are very important for investigating the kinematic and dynamic properties of nebulae.The second stage survey program of Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope(LAMOST)has started a sub-survey of nebulae(MRS-N)which will spectroscopically observe the optical emission lines of a large sample of nebulae near the Galactic plane.Until now,15 MRS-N plates have been observed from September 2017 to June 2019.Based on fitting the sky emission lines in the red band spectra of MRS-N,we investigate the precision of wavelength calibration and find there are systematic deviations of radial velocities(RVs)from~0.2 to 4 km s^(-1) for different plates.Especially for the plates obtained in March 2018,the systematic deviations of RVs can be as large as~4 km s^(-1),which then go down to~0.2-0.5 kms^(-1) at the end of 2018 and January 2019.An RV calibration function is proposed for these MRS-N plates,which can simultaneously and successfully calibrate the systematic deviations and improve the precision of RVs.

DEFPOS and Its First Results

A spectrometer was built to examine the interstellar medium (ISM) using the hydrogen Balmer α line. It is called Dual Etalon Fabry-Perot Optical Spectrometer (DEFPOS). DEFPOS will be coupled to coudé exit of the 150 cm telescope (RTT150) installed at TüBITAK National Observatory (TUG). DEFPOS was ready for observations about two years ago, but work was still continuing on the RTT150 coudé exit alignment. So we have started observing HII regions with DEFPOS without the RTT150. We present here some characteristics of the instrument and some of the results obtained.

LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectral Survey of Galactic Nebulae(LAMOST MRS-N):An overview of scientific goals and survey plan

Since Sep.2018,LAMOST has started the medium-resolution(R~7500)spectral survey(MRS).We proposed the spectral survey of Galactic nebulae,including HⅡregions,HH objects,supernova remnants,planetary nebulae and the special stars with MRS(LAMOST MRS-N).LAMOST MRS-N covers about 1700 square degrees of the northern Galactic plane within 40°<l<215°and-5°<b<5°.In this 5-year survey,we plan to observe about 500 thousand nebulae spectra.According to the commissioning observations,the nebulae spectra can provide precise radial velocity with uncertainty less than 1 km s^(-1).These high-precision spectral data are of great significance to our understanding of star formation and evolution.

Possible Contribution of Mature γ-ray Pulsars to Cosmic-ray Positrons

We restudy the possible contribution of mature gamma-ray pulsars to cosmic ray positrons based on the new version of outer gap model. In this model, the inclination angle and average properties of the outer gap are taken into account, and more mature pulsars can have the outer gap and emit high energy photons. Half of the primary particles in the outer gaps will flow back toward the star surface and emit synchrotron photons, which can produce electron/positron pairs by the cascade of pair production. Some of these pairs will escape from the light cylinder and be accelerated to relativistic energies in the pulsar wind driven by low-frequency electromagnetic waves. Using a Monte Carlo method, we obtain a sample of mature gamma-ray pulsars and then calculate the production of the positrons from these pulsars. The observed excess of cosmic positrons can be well explained by this model.

Two-fluid Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies

We develop a theoretical formulation for the large-scale dynamics of galaxy clusters involving two spherical 'isothermal fluids' coupled by their mutual gravity and derive asymptotic similarity solutions analytically. One of the fluids roughly approximates the massive dark matter halo, while the other describes the hot gas, the relatively small mass contribution from the galaxies being subsumed in the gas. By properly choosing the self-similar variables, it is possible to consistently transform the set of time-dependent two-fluid equations of spherical symmetry with self-gravity into a set of coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We focus on the analytical analysis and discuss applications of the solutions to galaxy clusters.

A New Statistical Distance Scale for Planetary Nebulae,Based on Gaia EDR3

The present work aims to build a new statistical distance scale for planetary nebulae(PNe)based on a rigorous calibration sample.The distances of the calibration sample are derived from the trigonometric parallax method using the recent measurements of Gaia Early Data Release 3(Gaia EDR3).The new distance scale is created by applying the well-known linear relationship between the radio surface brightness temperature and the nebular radius.The calibration sample is made up of 96 PNe of accurately computed distances with uncertainties less than20%.Earlier ground-and space-based trigonometric parallaxes of PNe display inconsistency with those of Gaia,particularly the Hipparcos results.In addition,these measurements have appreciably lower precision than those of Gaia.When compared to the trigonometric technique,the expansion and kinematic methods exhibited more consistency than the spectroscopic,extinction,gravity,and photoionization methods.Furthermore,contrary to earlier results in the literature,the extinction and gravity methods,on average,underestimate and slightly overestimate the PN distances respectively.As a byproduct of extracting the Gaia parallaxes,we detect the radial velocity and variability for 14 and 3 PN central stars(CSs),respectively.To our knowledge,the variability of Hen 2-447 CS has been determined for the first time.

Global Axisymmetric Stability Analysis for a Composite System of Two Gravitationally Coupled Scale-Free Discs

For a composite system of gravitationally coupled stellar and gaseous discs, we have carried out a linear stability analysis for axisyrnmetric coplanar perturbations using the two-fluid formalism. The background stellar and gaseous discs are taken to be scale-free with all physical variables varying as powers of the cylindrical radius r with compatible exponents. The unstable modes set in as neutral modes or stationary perturbation configurations with angular frequency f33 = 0. The axisyrnmetric stable range is bounded by two marginal stability curves derived from stationary perturbation configurations. Because of the gravitational coupling between the stellar arid the gaseous discs, one only needs to consider the parameter regime of the stellar disc. There exist two unstable regimes in general: a collapse regime corresponding to large-scale perturbations and a ring-fragmentation regime corresponding to short-wavelength perturbations. The composite system will collapse if it rotates too slowly and will succumb to ring-fragmentation instabilities if it rotates sufficiently fast. The overall stable range against axisyrnmetric perturbations is determined by a necessary D-criterion involving the effective Mach number squared Ds2 (the squared ratio of the stellar disc rotation speed to the stellar velocity dispersion up to a numerical factor). Different mass ratio S and sound speed ratio η of the gaseous and stellar disc components will alter the overall stability. For spiral galaxies or circumnuclear discs, we further include the dynamical effect of a massive dark matter halo. Astrophysical applications to disc galaxies, proto-stellar discs and circumnuclear discs are given as examples.

Spatial dependence of high energy electrons and their radiations in pulsar wind nebulae

We investigate the spatial dependence of high energy electrons and their radiations in pulsar wind nebulae （PWNe）. By assuming a time-dependent broken power-law injection and spatial dependence of convection velocity, magnetic field strength and diffusion coefficient on the radial distance of an expand- ing system, we numerically solve the Fokker-Planck transport equation including convection, diffusion, adiabatic loss and radiative loss in spherical coordinates, and investigate the effects of magnetic field, PWN age, maximum energy of electrons, and diffusion coefficient on electron spectra and non-thermal photon emissions. Our results indicate that （1） electron spectra and the corresponding photon spectra are a function of radial distance r of the expanding system; （2） for a given expansion velocity, the increase of the PWN age causes a slower decrease of the convection velocity （V ∝ r-β） and a more rapid decrease of the magnetic field strength （B ∝ r-1＋β）, but a more rapid increase of the diffusion coefficient （k∝ r1-β） because the index β decreases with the PWN age; and （3） the lower energy part of the electron spectra is dominated by convection and adiabatic loss, but the higher energy part is dominated by the competition between syn- chrotron loss and diffusion, and such a competition is a function of radial distance. Therefore the diffusion effect has an important role in the evolution of electron spectra as well as non-thermal photon spectra in a PWN.

Fallback in bipolar planetary nebulae?

The subclass of bipolar Planetary Nebulae(PNe)exhibits well-defined low-power outflows and some shows shock-related equatorial spiderweb structures and hourglass structures surrounding these outflows.These structures are distinctly different from the phenomena associated with spherical and elliptical PNe and suggest a non-standard way to simultaneously energise both kinds of structures.This paper presents evidence from the published literature on bipolar PN Hb 12 and other sources in support of an alternative scenario for energising these structures by means of accretion from material shells deposited during earlier post-AGB and pre-PNe evolutionary stages.In addition to energising the bipolar outflow,a sub-Eddington accretion scenario could hydrodynamically explain the spiderweb and outer hourglass structures as oblique shockwaves for guiding the accreting material into the equatorial region of the source.Estimates of the accretion rate resulting from fallback-related spherical accretion could indeed help to drive a low-power outflow and contribute to the total luminosity of these sources.

X-ray Emission Lines in GRB Afterglows: Evidence for a Two-component Jet Model

X-ray emission lines have been observed in X-ray afterglows of several T-ray bursts （GRBs）. It is a major breakthrough for understanding the nature of the progenitors. It has been proposed that the X-ray emission lines can be well explained by the Geometry-Dominated models, but in these models the illuminat- ing angle is much larger than that of the collimated jet of the GRB. For GRB 011211, we have obtained an illuminating angle of about 0 - 45°, while the angle of the GRB jet is only 3.6°. So we propose that the outflow of GRBs with emission lines should have two distinct components： a wide component that illuminates the reprocessing material and produces the emission lines and a narrow one that produces the GRB. Observations show the energy for producing the emission lines is higher than that of the GRB. In this case, when the wide component dominates the afterglows, a bump should appear in the GRB afterglow. For GRB 011211, the bump should occur within 0.05 days of the GRB, which is obviously too early for the observation to catch it. Alongside the X-ray emission lines there should also be a bright emission component between the UV and the soft X-rays. These features can be tested by the Swift satellite in the near future.