Proceedings of the Workshop
"The Magellanic Clouds and Other Dwarf Galaxies"
of the Bonn/Bochum-Graduiertenkolleg

Hot Gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud

You-Hua Chu


[Fig. 1]
Fig. 1. Halpha image of the supergiant shell LMC 4. A number of superbubbles, bubbles, and SNRs are located along the periphery of LMC 4. The field of view is 1600 pc × 1800 pc. This Halpha image is reproduced from a PDS scan of Kennicutt & Hodge's (1986) Curtis Schmidt plate

[Fig. 2]
Fig. 2. X-ray image of the LMC in the R5 band (0.56-1.21 keV). This ROSAT PSPC mosaic was made by Snowden & Petre (1994). Courtesy of Steve Snowden

[Fig. 3]
Fig. 3. Halpha image of the LMC. The field of view is the same as that of Fig. 2. Courtesy of Sungeun Kim (1998)

[Fig. 4]
Fig. 4. Top: A mosaic of the HRI survey data centered on the 30 Doradus region. The field of view is 140' × 110', or 2100 pc × 1650 pc.
Bottom: An Halpha image of the same field, reproduced from a PDS scan of Kennicutt & Hodge's (1986) Curtis Schmidt plate

[Fig. 5]
Fig. 5 Halpha (left) and X-ray (right) images of the SNR DEM L 316, presented by Williams et al. (1997). The Halpha image was taken with the Curtis Schmidt Telescope by Chris Smith. The X-ray image is extracted from the ROSAT HRI observation rh500232 in the 0.1-2.0 keV band

[Fig. 6]
Fig. 6. HST WFPC2 Halpha image of the SNR N63A overlaid by X-ray contour. The X-ray contours are derived from the ROSAT HRI observation rh500173

[Fig. 7]
Fig. 7. Halpha (left) and X-ray (right) images of N44. The Halpha image was taken with the Curtis Schmidt Telescope by Chris Smith. The X-ray image is extracted from the ROSAT PSPC observation rp500093 in the 0.1-2.4 keV band

[Fig. 8]
Fig. 8. Left: X-ray image of the central 9' × 9' of 30 Dor, extracted from the ROSAT PSPC observation rp500131 in the 0.1-2.4 keV band. The bright point source at the center is within a few arcsec from R136.
Right: Long-slit Halpha echellograms of the same region, reproduced from Chu & Kennicutt (1994). The wavelength increases upwards. The separation between adjacent slits corresponds to 45" in sky or 600 km s-1 in velocity

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