SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
UW Astronomer: Joni Johnson
Observations of several supernova remnants were made by HUT and UIT.
The targets (which are the hot gas blown out of the star, and
gas swept along in the interstellar medium) were too
faint for WUPPE to obtain polarimetry, but
some spectra were gotten.
Some of the spectra of the Vela supernova remnant were used in a
paper
written by HUT team members with collaboration by Dick Edgar & Wilt Sanders
of the WUPPE team.
Other spectra may be
used in future papers by members of WUPPE or the other teams.
For the UIT observation of the remnant of SN1987A WUPPE (and HUT) observed
a star nearby. This will be analyzed along with observations of
other LMC stars.