Tycho: ambient medium structure by analysis of the supernova remnant

BESHLEY, V.; DUBNER, G.; KUZYO, T.; MICELI, M.; ORLANDO, S.; OSTROWSKI, M.; PETRUK, O.

Madrid

Workshop; XMM-Newton: The Next Decade; 2016

ESAC

The radio (VLA) and X-ray (Chandra) maps of the remnant of the Tycho supernova (SN1572) are used to study the interstellar medium (ISM) density and magnetic field gradients in the ambient medium surrounding the remnant. The analysis uses also the GeV gamma-ray spectrum derived from the recent Fermi data, the radio fluxes from different radio instruments, X-ray spectrum from Suzaku and TeV gamma-ray spectrum from VERITAS. The inferred orientation of ISM density gradient is verified by comparing it to the VLA maps of interstellar medium surrounding the remnant, while the revealed orientation of the magnetic field gradient is checked by measurements of the magnetic field strength in a number of local regions around the shock. The two approaches are applied in order to estimate the magnetic field strength, involving analysis of the temporal variations of the X-ray synchrotron radiation from the shock and modeling the radial X-ray external shock profiles. As a result we reveal that the magnetic field gradient in vicinity of Tycho is almost parallel to the Galactic plane while the interstellar plasma density gradient is almost perpendicular to it. One should note that different approaches adopted in this study lead to fully compatible results.