Note: this is an archived version which has been superseded.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

G120.1+1.4 Tycho, 3C10, SN1572

Notes: This is the remnant of the Tycho's SN of AD1572.

Radio: Shell, brightest to the NE.
Optical: Faint filaments/knots to the NNW, NE and E.
X-ray: Shell, coincident with the radio shell, brighter to the NE.
Point sources: Faint radio source near centre of the remnant, thought to be extragalactic.
Distance: HI absorption gives 4--5 kpc, optical proper motion and modelled shock velocity gives 2.3 kpc.

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Last updated: 13 AUG 1998


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