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2025PASP..137k4201S - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 137, part no 11, 4201 (2025/November-0)

Attributing the Supernova Remnant RCW 89 to the Jittering Jets Explosion Mechanism.

SOKER N.

Abstract (from CDS):

I examine recent radio observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 89 and identify a point-symmetric morphology composed of two main symmetry axes. I attribute this morphology to a jet-driven explosion in the framework of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). To reach this conclusion, I argue that the MSH 15-52 nebula associated with the pulsar PSR B1509-58, the X-ray hand-like-shaped nebula, and RCW 89 are two separate core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnants that interact with each other. Namely, the nebula SNR G320.4-1.2 contains two CCSN remnants (CCSNRs). In essence, I utilize the recent successes of the JJEM to account for the morphologies of point-symmetric CCSNRs, thereby explaining the morphology of RCW 89 and identifying it as a separate CCSNR. I suggest a process by which somewhat more energetic pairs of jets in the JJEM have a positive feedback on the accreted gas onto the newly born neutron star, thereby prolonging the life of the jets and explaining the occurrence of two or three energetic pairs of jets in some CCSNe. This study adds RCW 89 to the growing list of point-symmetric CCSNRs. The JJEM naturally explains these morphologies as shaped by misaligned pairs of jets that exploded these CCSNe.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Journal keyword(s): Core-collapse supernovae - Supernova remnants - Stellar jets - Massive stars

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