Abstract

AbstractIRAS additional observations show that luminous (104−105 L⊙) far-IR sources are associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) supernova remnants N63A, N49, N49B, and N186D. Comparison of the IRAS and X-ray data shows that a substantial fraction of the IR emission from three of the SNRs can be accounted for by collisionally heated dust. The ratio of dust-grain cooling to total atomic cooling is ~10 in X-ray emitting gas (T~106 K). We show why dust cooling does not dominate, but probably speeds SNR evolution in an inhomogeneous interstellar medium.

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