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Cassiopeia A (Cas A) as the nearby young remnant of a core-collapse supernova is the best candidate for astrophysical studies in supernova explosion and its environment. We studied hard X-ray emissions from Cas A using the ten-year data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Wei Wang , Zhuo Li

Further analysis of X-ray spectroscopy results recently obtained from the MOS CCD cameras on-board XMM-Newton provides a detailed description of the hot and cool X-ray emitting plasma in Cas A. Measurement of the Doppler broadening of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Willingale , J. A. M. Bleeker , K. J. van der Heyden , J. S. Kaastra

We present spectroscopy of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) observed at infrared wavelengths from 10 - 40 micron with the Spitzer Space Telescope and at millimeter wavelengths in 12CO and 13CO J = 2 - 1 (230 and 220 GHz) with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Charles D. Kilpatrick , John H. Bieging , George H. Rieke

We present the first X-ray expansion measurement of the SNR Cas A. We compared new ROSAT to archived Einstein HRI images with a separation of 17 years. The remnant is seen to be expanding, on average, at a rate of 0.20 %/yr, which is twice…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Barron Koralesky , L. Rudnick , E. V. Gotthelf , J. W. Keohane

Broadband optical and narrowband Si XIII X-ray images of the young Galactic supernova remnant Cas A obtained over several decades are used to investigate spatial and temporal correlations on both large and small scales. The data consist of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel J. Patnaude , Robert A. Fesen

We present a survey of the X-ray emitting ejecta in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant based on an extensive analysis of over 6000 spectral regions extracted on 2.5-10" angular scales using the Chandra 1 Ms observation. We interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Una Hwang , J. Martin Laming

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…

The observed shock wave positions and expansion in Cas A can be interpreted in a model of supernova interaction with a freely expanding stellar wind with a mass loss rate of ~3e-5 Msun/yr for a wind velocity of 10 km/s. The wind was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roger A. Chevalier , Jeffrey Oishi

Supernova remnants (SNRs) provide crucial information of yet poorly understood mechanism of supernova explosion. Here we present XRISM high-resolution spectroscopy of the intermediate-mass-element (IME) ejecta in the SNR Cas A to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Shunsuke Suzuki , Haruto Sonoda , Yusuke Sakai , Yuken Ohshiro , Shinya Yamada , Manan Agarwal , Satoru Katsuda , Hiroya Yamaguchi

We used the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph to map nearly the entire extent of Cassiopeia A between 5-40 micron. Using infrared and Chandra X-ray Doppler velocity measurements, along with the locations of optical ejecta…

Images from the High Resolution Camera on the Chandra X-ray Observatory were used to measure the proper motion of the neutron star in Cassiopeia A over a baseline of 10 years (1999-2009). One background source and 13 quasi-stationary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-15 Tracey DeLaney , Joseph Satterfield

We have for the first time measured the overall expansion rate of the supernova remnant Cas A as seen in X-rays using ROSAT and Einstein HRI images with time differences up to almost 17 years. The overall expansion timescale of Cas A is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacco Vink , Hans Bloemen , Jelle Kaastra , Johan Bleeker

We used the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph to create a high resolution spectral map of the central region of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, allowing us to make a Doppler reconstruction of its 3D structure. The ejecta…

We present the global distribution of fine structure infrared line emission in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph. We identify emission from ejecta materials in the…

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…

Observations of the SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) show asymmetries in the reverse shock that cannot be explained by models describing a remnant expanding through a spherically symmetric wind of the progenitor star. We investigate whether a past…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 S. Orlando , A. Wongwathanarat , H. -T. Janka , M. Miceli , S. Nagataki , M. Ono , F. Bocchino , J. Vink , D. Milisavljevic , D. J. Patnaude , G. Peres

We measure the expansion of the forward shock of the Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant 1E\,0102.2-7219 in X-rays using Chandra X-Ray Observatory on-axis Advanced CCD Imaging Spectromete(ACIS) observations from 1999-2016. We estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Long Xi , Terrance J. Gaetz , Paul P. Plucinsky , John P. Hughes , Daniel J. Patnaude

Late on July 23, 2012, the STEREO-A spacecraft encountered a fast forward shock driven by a coronal mass ejection launched from the Sun earlier that same day. The estimated travel time of the disturbance ($\sim 20$ hrs), together with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Pete Riley , Ronald M. Caplan , Joe Giacalone , David Lario , Ying Liu

Cassiopeia A is one of the best-studied supernova remnants. Its shocked ejecta emits brightly in radio and X-rays. Its unshocked ejecta can be studied through infrared emission, the radio-active decay of $^{44}$Ti, and low frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-09 M. Arias , J. Vink , F. de Gasperin , P. Salas , J. B. R. Oonk , R. J. van Weeren

Recently, the GeV--sub-PeV spectrum of supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A (Cas A), one of the youngest and most well-studied SNRs in our Galaxy, has been updated by observations of Fermi-LAT and LHAASO. We revisit Cas A with our previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Bo-Tao Li , Wei Wang , Zhuo Li