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A Review of X-ray Observations of Supernova Remnants

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

I present a review of X-ray observations of supernova remnants with an emphasis on shell-type remnants. The topics discussed are the observation of fresh nucleosynthesis products, shock heating and cosmic ray acceleration.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0311406,
  title  = {A Review of X-ray Observations of Supernova Remnants},
  author = {Jacco Vink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0311406},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of the conference: "The restless high energy universe", held in Amsterdam, May 2003. To be published in: Nucl. Physics B. Suppl. Ser., E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.J.M. in 't Zand, and R.A.M.J. Wijers (eds.). 10 pages, 7 figures (15 ps files, of which 6 in color)