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We report new Chandra observations of one of the few Galactic supernova remnants whose X-ray spectrum is dominated by nonthermal synchrotron radiation, G330.2+1.0. We find that between 2006 and 2017, some parts of the shell have expanded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Stephen P. Reynolds , Brian J. Williams , Robert Petre

Using the unprecedented spectral resolution of the reflection grating spectrometer (RGS) onboard XMM-Newton, we reveal dynamics of X-ray--emitting ejecta in the oxygen-rich supernova remnant Puppis A. The RGS spectrum shows prominent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Satoru Katsuda , Yutaka Ohira , Koji Mori , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Hiroyuki Uchida , Katsuji Koyama , Toru Tamagawa

We present analysis of Chandra X-ray Observatory data detailing a galactic supernova remnant, G272.2-3.2. A clear shell of emission has been resolved for the first time as a series of filaments and knots around the entire rim of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-07 Randall L. McEntaffer , Nolan Grieves , Thomas Brantseg

We investigate the interaction between relativistic jets and supernova (SN) ejecta as a potential origin of X-ray knots in radio galaxies, employing knot A in M 87 as a test case. By modeling the dynamical evolution of the interaction, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Jia-Chun He , Xiao-Na Sun , Hao-Qiang Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Da-Bin Lin , En-Wei Liang

The central strong activities in core-collapse supernovae expect to produce the overturning of the Fe- and Si/O-rich ejecta during the supernova explosion based on multi-dimensional simulations. X-ray observations of the supernova remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Tomoya Tsuchioka , Toshiki Sato , Shinya Yamada , Yasunobu Uchiyama

In this paper, we present the first direct measurement of the proper motion of the neutron star (NS) in the supernova remnant (SNR) G18.9-1.1 using a 15-year Chandra baseline. After correcting the observations' astrometric solutions using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Tyler Holland-Ashford , Brian Williams , Patrick Slane , Xi Long

Aims: We present a study of the Galactic supernova remnant SNR G15.9+0.2 with archival XMM-Newton observations. Methods: EPIC data are used to investigate the morphological and spectral properties of the remnant, searching in particular for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Pierre Maggi , Fabio Acero

Optical CCD imaging with H$\alpha$ and [SII] filters and spectroscopic observations of the galactic supernova remnant G85.9-0.6 have been performed for the first time. The CCD image data are taken with the 1.5m Russian-Turkish Telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 F. Gok , A. Sezer , E. Aktekin , T. Guver , N. Ercan

We report the first detection of optical emission from the shell-type Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G108.2$-$0.6. We obtained H$\alpha$ images and long-slit spectra using the 1.5-m RTT150 telescope to examine the morphological and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 Gunay Payli , Hicran Bakis , Ebru Aktekin , Hidetoshi Sano , Aytap Sezer

We introduce a deep (670 ks) X-ray survey of the SN1006 remnant from Chandra, plus a deep H-alpha image from the 4m telescope at CTIO. Comparison with Chandra images from 2003 gives the first measurement of X-ray proper motions around the…

Aims: We study the supernova remnant G20.0-0.2 and its surroundings in order to look for the high energy counterpart of the radio nebula and to find evidence of interaction between the shock front and the interstellar medium. Methods: We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alberto Petriella , Sergio Paron , Elsa Giacani

We examine the relation between presupernova stellar structure and the distribution of ejecta in core-collapse supernovae, assuming adiabatic, spherically symmetric flow. We develop a simple yet accurate formula for the blastwave shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher D. Matzner , Christopher F. McKee

The distribution of ejecta in young supernova remnants offers a powerful observational probe of their explosions and progenitors. Here we present a 3D reconstruction of the ejecta in SNR 0540-69.3, which is an O-rich remnant with a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 J. Larsson , J. Sollerman , J. D. Lyman , J. Spyromilio , L. Tenhu , C. Fransson , P. Lundqvist

Many supernova remnants (SNRs) are characterized by a knotty ejecta structure. The Vela SNR is an excellent example of remnant in which detached clumps of ejecta are visible as X-ray emitting bullets that have been observed and studied in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Miceli , S. Orlando , F. Reale , F. Bocchino , G. Peres

We present moderately deep (125 ks) {\it XMM-Newton} observations of supernova remnant G330.2$+$1.0. This remnant is one of only a few known that fall into "synchrotron-dominated" category, with the emission almost entirely dominated by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Brian J. Williams , John W. Hewitt , Robert Petre , Tea Temim

We present Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/IR images of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant that survey its high-velocity, S-rich debris in the NE jet and SW counterjet regions through [S III] 9069, 9531 and [S II] 10,287 - 10,370 line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Robert A. Fesen , Dan Milisavljevic

We present the first direct ejecta velocity measurements of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR). Chandra's high angular resolution images reveal a patchy structure of radial velocities in the ejecta that can be separated into distinct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Toshiki Sato , John P. Hughes

We present an update on the results of our monitoring observations of the X-ray remnant of supernova (SN) 1987A with the {\it Chandra X-Ray Observatory}. As of 2002 December, we have performed a total of seven observations of SN 1987A. The…

We report on our initial analysis of a deep 510 ks observation of the Galactic oxygen-rich supernova remnant (SNR) G292.0+1.8 with the {\it Chandra X-ray Observatory}. Our new {\it Chandra} ACIS-I observation has a larger field of view and…

We present results from {\it XMM-Newton/RGS} observations of prominent knots in the southest portion of Tycho's supernova remnant, known to be the remnant of a Type Ia SN in 1572 C.E. By dispersing the photons from these knots out of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Brian J. Williams , Satoru Katsuda , Renata Cumbee , Robert Petre , John C. Raymond , Hiroyuki Uchida