Bibcode
Ruiz-Lapuente, P.; González Hernández, J. I.; Mor, Roger; Romero-Gómez, Mercè; Miret-Roig, Núria; Figueras, Francesca; Bedin, Luigi R.; Canal, Ramon; Méndez, Javier
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 870, Issue 2, article id. 135, 13 pp. (2019).
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SN 1572 (Tycho Brahe’s supernova) clearly belongs to the Ia
(thermonuclear) type. It was produced by the explosion of a white dwarf
(WD) in a binary system. Its remnant has been the first of this type to
be explored in search of a possible surviving companion, the mass donor
that brought the WD to the point of explosion. A high peculiar motion
with respect to the stars at the same location in the Galaxy, mainly due
to the orbital velocity at the time of the explosion, is a basic
criterion for the detection of such companions. Radial velocities from
the spectra of the stars close to the geometrical center of
Tycho’s supernova remnant, plus proper motions of the same stars,
obtained by astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), have been
used so far. In addition, a detailed chemical analysis of the
atmospheres of a sample of candidate stars had been made. However, the
distances to the stars remained uncertain. Now, the Second Gaia Data
Release (DR2) provides unprecedented accurate distances, and new proper
motions for the stars can be compared with those obtained from the HST.
We consider the Galactic orbits that the candidate stars to the SN
companion would have in the future. We do this to explore any kinematic
peculiarity. We also locate a representative sample of candidate stars
in the Toomre diagram. Using the new data, we re-evaluate the status of
the candidates suggested thus far, as well as the larger sample of the
stars seen in the central region of the remnant.
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