The Bird: A Pressure-Confined Explosion in the Interstellar Medium
01 January 1986
The non-thermal radio continuum source G5.3-1.0, mapped at 20 cm with the VLA by Becker and Helfand (1985,Nature 313, 115), has an unusual bird-like shape (see figure below). In order to determine possible interaction of this source with adjacent cold gas, we have mapped this region in the J=1-0 line of CO using the AT&T Bell Laboratories 7m antenna and the FCRAO 14m antenna.