Note: this is an archived version which has been superseded. The current SNR catalogue is at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/

G111.7-2.1 Cassiopeia A, 3C461

Notes: Presumably the remnant of a late 17th century SN.

Radio: Bright shell with compact knots and extended plateau of emission.
Optical: Fast knots and quasi-stationary flocculli, with many filaments at large radii.
X-ray: Incomplete shell, with hard spectral component.
Distance: Optical expansion, plus proper motions indicate 2.8 kpc.

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Last updated: 17 AUG 1998


Dave Green/MRAO, Cambridge, UK/D.A.Green@mrao.cam.ac.uk