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Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is the youngest known core-collapse supernova remnant (SNR) in the Galaxy and is perhaps the best-studied SNR in X-rays. Cas A has a line-rich spectrum dominated by thermal emission and given its high flux, it is an…

VERITAS observed the supernova remnants Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and IC 443 during 2007, resulting in strong TeV detections of both sources. Cas A is a young remnant, and bright in both the radio and nonthermal X-rays, both tracers of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Thomas Brian Humensky

We present 1"-resolution ALMA observations of the circumnuclear disk (CND) and the environment around SgrA*. The images unveil the presence of small spatial scale CO (J=3-2) molecular "cloudlets" within the central pc of the Milky Way,…

Thin non-thermal X-ray filaments are often seen in young supernova remnants. We used data from the 1 Ms Chandra observation of Cassiopeia A to study spectral properties of some of the filaments in this remnant. For all the cases that we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Miguel Araya , David Lomiashvili , Chulhoon Chang , Maxim Lyutikov , Wei Cui

We present high-resolution X-ray spectra from the young supernova remnant Cas A using a 70-ks observation taken by the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). Line emission, dominated by Si and S ions, is used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. S. Lazendic , D. Dewey , N. S. Schulz , C. R. Canizares

We have made sensitive milliarcsecond-resolution radio images of the nearby merger galaxy Arp 299 at four epochs spread over 18 months between 2003 and 2005. The combined data revealed a total of 30 point sources in the two primary merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 James S. Ulvestad

We mapped molecular gas toward the supernova remnant W44 in the HCO+ J=1-0 line with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope and in the CO J=3-2 line with the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment 10 m telescope. High-velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Tomoro Sashida , Tomoharu Oka , Kunihiko Tanaka , Kazuya Aono , Shinji Matsumura , Makoto Nagai , Masumichi Seta

We present new reddening measurements towards the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, using two techniques not previously applied to this object. Our observations of the near-infrared [Fe II] 1.257 micron and 1.644 micron lines show the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Kristoffer A. Eriksen , David Arnett , Donald W. McCarthy , Patrick Young

We present the first results of an XMM-Newton observation of the central X-ray source in the Cas A supernova remnant. The spectrum can be fit equally well with an absorbed steep power law (alpha~3, N_H~1.5x10^22 cm^-2) or with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo , G. L. Israel

Carbon Radio Recombination Lines (CRRLs) at decametre wavelengths trace the diffuse phase of the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Galaxy. Their observation allows to measure physical parameters of this phase. We observed CRRLs with the…

Supernova remnants act as particle accelerators, providing the cosmic-ray protons that permeate the interstellar medium and initiate the ion-molecule reactions that drive interstellar chemistry. Enhanced fluxes of cosmic-ray protons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 Nick Indriolo

We present a three-year series of observations at 24 microns with the Spitzer Space Telescope of the interstellar material in a 200 x 200 arcmin square area centered on Cassiopeia A. Interstellar dust heated by the outward light pulse from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yeunjin Kim , G. H. Rieke , O. Krause , K. Misselt , R. Indebetouw , K. E. Johnson

We study cosmic-ray acceleration in a supernova remnant (SNR) and the escape from it. We model nonthermal particle and photon spectra for the hidden SNR in the open cluster Westerlund 2, and the old-age mixed-morphology SNR W 28. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

A comparison of X-ray observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant taken in 2000, 2002, and 2004 with the Chandra ACIS-S3 reveals the presence of several small scale features (<= 10 arcsec) which exhibit significant intensity changes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. J. Patnaude , R. A. Fesen

We propose a model to account for the bolometric light curve, quasi-continuum and the Ca II emission features of the peculiar type Ia supernova (SN) 2002ic, which exploded in a dense circumstellar envelope. The model suggests that the SN Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. N. Chugai , R. A. Chevalier , P. Lundqvist

We present a detailed study of molecular gas toward the supernovae remnant G347.3-0.5 (J1713.7-3946) obtained with the 4m mm/sub-mm telescope NANTEN . This study has revealed that several intensity peaks and the overall distribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Moriguchi , K. Tamura , Y. Tawara , H. Sasago , K. Yamaoka , T. Onishi , Y. Fukui

Hubble Space Telescope images of the young Galactic supernova remnant Cassiopeia A reveal a far larger population of outlying, high-velocity knots of ejecta with a broader range of chemical properties than previously suspected. We identify…

Whether or not supernovae contribute significantly to the overall dust budget is a controversial subject. Submillimetre (submm) observations, sensitive to cold dust, have shown an excess at 450 and 850 microns in young remnants Cassiopeia A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 H. L. Gomez , L. Dunne , R. Ivison , E. M. Reynoso , M. A. Thompson , B. Sibthorpe , S. A. Eales , T. M. DeLaney , S. Maddox , K. Isaak

Context. Observing supernova remnants (SNRs) and modelling the shocks they are associated with is the best way to quantify the energy SNRs re-distribute back into the Interstellar Medium (ISM). Aims. We present comparisons of shock models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Gusdorf , S. Anderl , R. Guesten , J. Stutzki , H-W. Huebers , P. Hartogh , S. Heyminck , Y. Okada

We investigate the optical shock emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 0540-69.3 (SNR 0540) using MUSE integral-field-unit data from the VLT. The observations cover the spectral range 4650-9300 $\r{A}$ and provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 L. Tenhu , J. Larsson , P. Lundqvist , I. Saathoff , J. D. Lyman , J. Sollerman