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}
}
Comments
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)