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We have performed the first detailed spatially resolved spectroscopy of Cas A in the 1.6-10 keV energy range, using data taken with the MECS spectrometer on board the BeppoSAX Observatory. We performed a spatial deconvolution of the data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. C. Maccarone , T. Mineo , A. Preite-Martinez

We report the localization of the forward and reversed shock fronts in the young supernova remnant Cas-A using X-ray data obtained with the Chandra Observatory. High resolution X-ray maps resolve a previously unseen X-ray feature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. V. Gotthelf , B. Koralesky , L. Rudnick , T. W. Jones , U. Hwang , R. Petre

We present Chandra ACIS X-ray observations of the Galactic supernova remnant Cassiopeia A taken in December 2007. Combining these data with previous archival Chandra observations taken in 2000, 2002, and 2004, we estimate the remnant's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel J. Patnaude , Robert A. Fesen

We present a study of the CCSN rate in nuclei A and B1 of the luminous infrared galaxy Arp299, based on 11 years of Very Large Array monitoring of their radio emission at 8.4 GHz. Significant variations in the nuclear radio flux density can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cristina Romero-Canizales , Seppo Mattila , Antxon Alberdi , Miguel Angel Perez-Torres , Erkki Kankare , Stuart D. Ryder

We present new evidence that the bright non-thermal X-ray emission features in the interior of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (SNR) are caused by inward moving shocks based on Chandra and NuSTAR observations. Several bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Toshiki Sato , Satoru Katsuda , Mikio Morii , Aya Bamba , John P. Hughes , Yoshitomo Maeda , Manabu Ishida , Federico Fraschetti

The observed anomalous steady decrease in surface temperature of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), which was reported about ten years ago, has generated much debate. Several exotic cooling scenarios have been proposed using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 Lev B. Leinson

Cassiopeia A is a nearby young supernova remnant that provides a unique laboratory for the study of core-collapse supernova explosions. Cassiopeia A is known to be a Type IIb supernova from the optical spectrum of its light echo, but the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Bon-Chul Koo , Hyun-Jeong Kim , Heeyoung Oh , John C. Raymond , Sung-Chul Yoon , Yong-Hyun Lee , Daniel T. Jaffe

Recently, Elshamounty et al. performed a reanalysis of the surface temperature of the neutron star in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A on the basis of Chandra data measured during last decade, and added a new data point. We show that all…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-18 D. Blaschke , H. Grigorian , D. N. Voskresensky

Asymmetry is required by most numerical simulations of stellar core-collapse explosions, but the form it takes differs significantly among models. The spatial distribution of radioactive 44Ti, synthesized in an exploding star near the…

The central pointlike X-ray source of the Cas A supernova remnant was discovered in the Chandra First Light Observation and found later in the archival ROSAT and Einstein images. The analysis of these data does not show statistically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. G. Pavlov , V. E. Zavlin , B. Aschenbach , J. Truemper , D. Sanwal

We present the results of extinction measurements toward the main ejecta shell of the Cassiopeia A supernova (SN) remnant using the flux ratios between the two near-infrared (NIR) [Fe II] lines at 1.26 and 1.64 $\mu {\rm m}$. We find a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Yong-Hyun Lee , Bon-Chul Koo , Dae-Sik Moon , Jae-Joon Lee

The study on the dynamic evolution of young supernova remnants (SNRs) is an important way to understand the density structure of the progenitor's circumstellar medium. We have reported the acceleration or deceleration, proper motion and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Xianhuan Lei , Hui Zhu , Haiyan Zhang , Wenwu Tian

The spatial and velocity distributions of nuclear species synthesized in the innermost regions of core-collapse supernovae can yield important clues about explosion asymmetries and the operation of the still disputed explosion mechanism.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 A. Wongwathanarat , H. -Th. Janka , E. Mueller , E. Pllumbi , S. Wanajo

X-ray observations of the neutron star in the Cas A supernova remnant over the past decade suggest the star is undergoing a rapid drop in surface temperature of $\approx$ $2-5.5\%$. One explanation suggests the rapid cooling is triggered by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 William G. Newton , Kyleah Murphy , Joshua Hooker , Bao-An Li

G306.3$-$0.9 is an asymmetric Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), whose progenitor has been thought to be a Type Ia supernova (SN), but its high Ca abundance appears inconsistent with the Type Ia origin. Hoping to uncover the reason for its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Jianbin Weng , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen , Shing-Chi Leung , Silvia Toonen , Hagai B. Perets , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Yossef Zenati , Jacco Vink

MeV nuclear de-excitation lines serve as a unique tool to study low-energy cosmic rays (CRs), containing both spectral and elemental information of the interacting material. In this paper, we estimated the possible nuclear de-excitation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-04 Bing Liu , Rui-zhi Yang , Xin-yu He , Felix Aharonian

The escape of accelerated particles from supernova remnants remains one of the central and yet least understood aspects of the origin of cosmic rays. Here we use the results of the recent LHAASO observation of gamma rays from a region of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-11 P. Blasi

The observed rapid cooling of the neutron star (NS) located at the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) can be explained in the minimal NS cooling scenario. This consequence may be changed if there exists an extra cooling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Koichi Hamaguchi , Natsumi Nagata , Keisuke Yanagi , Jiaming Zheng

Using data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, we revisited the reverse shock in the supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A.Based on the spectroscopic of a series of annuli in the northwest (NW) and southeast (SE), we get the radial profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-29 Yin Wu , Xuejuan Yang

Cassiopeia A is one of the youngest supernova remnants known in the Milky Way and a unique laboratory for supernova physics. We present an optical spectrum of the Cassiopeia A supernova near maximum brightness, obtained from observations of…