We report on the results of our monitoring program of SNR 1987A with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The high resolution images and the spectra from the latest Chandra data suggest that the blast wave has reached the dense inner ring in the western side of the SNR, as well as in the east. The observed soft X-ray flux is increasing more rapidly than ever, and the latest flux is four times brighter than three years ago.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310374,
title = {Monitoring The Evolution of SNR 1987A with Chandra},
author = {Sangwook Park and David N. Burrows and Gordon P. Garmire and Svetozar A. Zhekov and Dick McCray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310374},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages including 4 figures. To appear in "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments" (IAU Symposium 218, ASP Conference Proceedings), eds F. Camilo and B. M. Gaensler