W50A

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Description

This is 20cm total intensity map. The highly unusual compact object SS 433 appears to be located near the center of W 50, a large nonthermal galactic radio source postulated to be a SNR.
The map was made from a mosaic of 58 different pointings.

Creator

Legacy Astronomical Images

Rights

NRAO/AUI/NSF does not hold full copyright for this image. Contact the archivist for details.

Type

Legacy Astronomical Image

Object Name

W50

Investigators

Gloria Dubner, Mark Holdaway, Miller Goss, Felix Mirabel

Telescope

Very Large Array (VLA)

Observation Date

1996-00-00

Type of Observation

continuum

Center of Image

RA 19:11:49.000, Dec: 4:59:12.000 (J2000)

Field of View

3.000000 x 1.700000 degrees

Notes

Contact the archivist for a high resolution tif of this image.

Series

Galactic Sources Series

Unit

Supernova Remnants Unit

Citation

Legacy Astronomical Images, “W50A,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed November 27, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/33513.