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Name: Is the Eagle Nebula powered by a hidden supernova remnant ?
Published: 2010-11-21T00:00:00Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo

Proposal ID	060513
Title	Is the Eagle Nebula powered by a hidden supernova remnant ?
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0605130101
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-0bnaqbm
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Francois Boulanger
Abstract	Spitzer observations of the Eagle nebula (M16) reveal the presence of a large (8pc diameter) shell of dust heated to anomalously high temperatures. Modeling ofdust excitation shows that the shell emission cannot be powered by the clusterUV radiation but that it can be accounted for by collisionally heated dust in ayoung (a few 1000 yrs) supernova remnant. We have re-analyzed deep Chandraobservations that show diffuse emission consistent with this hypothesis, butalso with galactic ridge emission. We propose a 50 ksec XMM observation to probethe spatial extent of the diffuse X-ray emission beyond the Spitzer shell.Absence of emission outside of this shell will strongly support the supernovaremnant interpretation
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Instrument	EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage	2009-10-10T23:11:03Z/2009-10-11T14:56:22Z
Version	21.51_20241115_1113
Mission Description	The European Space Agencys (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESAs second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earths atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis.
Creator Contact	https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Date Published	2010-11-21T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2026-07-09
Keywords	"dust excitation", "M16", "yrs supernova remnant", "spitzer shell", "shell emission", "eagle nebula powered", "supernova remnant", "XMM", "pc diameter shell", "galactic ridge emission", "collisionally heated dust", "dust heated", "diffuse emission", "cluster uv radiation", "eagle nebula m16", "diffuse xray emission", "spatial extent"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Francois Boulanger, 2010, 'Is the Eagle Nebula powered by a hidden supernova remnant ?', 21.51_20241115_1113, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-0bnaqbm
Rights	Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.