MULTIFREQUENCY RADIO OBSERVATIONS OF SNR J0536-6735 (N 59B) WITH ASSOCIATED PULSAR

SUMMARY: We present a study of new Australian Telescope Compact Array(ATCA) observations of supernova remnant, SNR J0536–6735. This remnant ap-pears to follow a shell morphology with a diameter of D =36 × 29 pc (with 1 pcuncertainty in each direction). There is an embedded H ii region on the northernlimb of the remnant which made various analysis and measurements (such as fluxdensity, spectral index and polarisation) difficult. The radio-continuum emissionfollowed the same structure as the optical emission, allowing for extent and fluxdensity estimates at 20 cm. We estimate a surface brightness for the SNR at 1 GHzof 2.55 × 10 −21 Wm −2 Hz −1 sr −1 . Also, we detect a distinctive radio-continuumpoint source which confirms the previous suggestion of this remnant being associ-ated with a pulsar wind nebulae (PWN). The tail of this remnant isn’t seen in theradio-continuum images and is only seen in the optical and X-ray images.Key words. ISM: supernova remnants – Magellanic Clouds – Radio Continuum:ISM – ISM: individual objects – SNR J0536–6735