SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 41066 DR. KAZUO MAKISHIMA UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO TOKYO JAPAN 113 BUNKYO-KU 7-3-1 HONGO E-mail: MAXIMA@MIRANDA.PHYS.S.U-TOKYO.AC.JP Tel: 03-3812-2111 EX.4171 Fax: 03-3812-6938 Medium: 2.5GB8MM Subject: SUPERNOVA REMNANTS AND GALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION Title: FRACTAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS OF THE GALACTIC RIDGE BRIGHTNESS Abstract: We propose to perform a deep pointing on the Galactic ridge, to obtain high-quality data on the Galactic ridge emission. The brightness data will be subjected to a standard fractal dimension analysis, to examine wheter the ridge emission comes >from hot plasmas confined within numerous magnetic tubes. Co-Is: 1 HIDEHIRO KANEDA UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO JAPAN KANEDA@MIRANDA.PHYS.S.U-TOKYO.AC.JP 03-3812-2111 EX4171 2 KEIICHI MATSUZAKI UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO JAPAN 3 TSUNEFUMI MIZUNO UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO JAPAN 4 SAKU TSUNETA UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO JAPAN 5 KAZUNARI SHIBATA NAOJ JAPAN 6 RYOJI MATSUMOTO CHIBA UNIVERSITY JAPAN 7 TOSHIKI TAJIMA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS USA 8 AZITA VALINIA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS USA Target Name PRI RA Dec Time TC Off GIS SIS_Cts Obs ------------------- --- -------- -------- ---- -- --- --- ------- --- GALACTIC RIDGE 3 280.9000 -3.0000 40 N Y P 0.10000 2 REMARKS: THE 90 KS WILL BE SPLIT INTO A 10 KS PILOT OBSERVATION AND A 80 KS MAIN OBSERVATION, THE FORMER USED TO CONFIRM THERE IS NO BRIGHT OBJECT.