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We report on our analysis of the 1 Ms Chandra observation of the supernova remnant Cas A in order to localize, characterize and quantify its non-thermal X-ray emission. More specifically, we investigated whether the X-ray synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-02 E. A. Helder , J. Vink

Some young supernova remnants exhibit thin filaments of X-ray synchrotron radiation coinciding with the forward shock due to accelerated electrons interacting with the local magnetic field. The two main models accounting for the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Adrien Picquenot , Brian J. Williams , Fabio Acero , Benson T. Guest

We have studied the supernova remnant G67.7+1.8 with the Chandra X-ray observatory. The remnant's X-ray morphology correlates well with the double-arc structure seen at radio wavelength. The X-ray spectra of the northern and southern rim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Y. Hui , W. Becker

Over the last 3 yrs, the Galactic center (GC) region has been monitored with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. With 11 Chandra observations through 2002 June, the total effective exposure reaches ~590 ks, providing significant photon…

We report on Chandra X-ray observations of ASASSN-18tb/SN 2018fhw, a low luminosity Type Ia supernova that showed a H line in its optical spectrum. No X-ray emission was detected at the location of the SN. Upper limits to the luminosity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Vikram V. Dwarkadas

We report re-analyses of the Suzaku observations of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), G272.2$-$3.2, for which the previous studies were limited below 3 keV. With careful data reduction and background subtraction, we discover the K-shell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Fumiyoshi Kamitsukasa , Katsuji Koyama , Hiroshi Nakajima , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Koji Mori , Satoru Katsuda , Hiroyuki Uchida , Hiroshi Tsunemi

The distribution of elements produced in the inner-most layers of a supernova explosion is a key diagnostic for studying the collapse of massive stars. Here we present the results of a 2.4 Ms \textit{NuSTAR} observing campaign aimed at…

While Tycho's supernova remnant is one of the most studied type Ia Galactic supernova remnants, a global view of the physical properties of its ejecta is lacking, to understand its mysteries. In particular, the spatial distribution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 L. Godinaud , F. Acero , A. Decourchelle , J. Ballet

The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is a prime candidate for accelerating cosmic ray protons and ions. Gamma rays have been observed at GeV and TeV energies, which indicates hadronic interactions, but they could also be caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-19 A. Summa , D. Elsaesser , K. Mannheim

The supernova remnant (SNR) 3C 397 is thought to originate from a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion of a near-Chandrasekhar-mass ($M_{\rm Ch}$) progenitor, based on the enhanced abundances of Mn and Ni revealed by previous X-ray study…

For supernova powered by the conversion of kinetic energy into radiation due to the interactions of the ejecta with a dense circumstellar shell, we show that there could be X-ray analogues of optically super-luminous SNe with comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Tony Pan , Daniel J. Patnaude , Abraham Loeb

Infrared continuum observations provide a means of investigating the physical composition of the dust in the ejecta and swept up medium of the Cas A supernova remnant. Using low resolution Spitzer IRS spectra (5-35 $\mu$m), and broad-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Richard G. Arendt , Eli Dwek , Gladys Kober , Jeonghee Rho , Una Hwang

We present observations of the young, Oxygen-rich supernova remnant 1E0102.2-7219 taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory during Chandra's Orbital Activation and Checkout phase. The boundary of the blast wave shock is clearly seen for the…

We present a spatial and spectral analysis of arcsecond-scale X-ray emission in SS 433 using zeroth-order data from Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observations. The analysis is based on 24 observations acquired between 1999…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Yusuke Sakai , Shinya Yamada , Haruka Sakemi , Mami Machida , Taichi Igarashi , Ryota Hayakawa , Miho Tan , Taisei Furuyama

Cassiopeia A, a well-observed young core-collapse supernova remnant (SNR), is considered as one of the best candidates for studying very high-energy particle acceleration up to PeV via the diffusive shock mechanism. Recently, MAGIC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Xiao Zhang , Siming Liu

The core-dominated radio-loud quasar PKS 0637-752 (z = 0.654) was the first celestial object observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, offering the early surprise of the detection of a remarkable X-ray jet. Several observations with a…

We describe results from our initial study of the diffuse X-ray emission structures in NGC 5128 (Cen A) using the Chandra X-ray Observatory observations. The high-angular resolution Chandra images reveal multi-scale X-ray struct ures with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Karovska , G. Fabbiano , F. Nicastro , M. Elvis , R. P. Kraft , S. S. Murray

We report the Chandra detection of resolved X-ray emission of luminosity 3.5 \times 10^{40} ergs s^{-1} (0.4--4.5 keV) and power-law energy spectral index alpha = 1.5 \pm 0.7 from a roughly 10 arcsec length of the north-west radio jet in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , M. J. Hardcastle

We report new Chandra hard X-ray ($>2\rm~keV$) and JVLA C-band observations of the nuclear superbubble of NGC 3079, an analog of the "Fermi bubble" in our Milky Way. We detect extended hard X-ray emission on the SW side of the galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Jiang-Tao Li , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Yelena Stein , Joel N. Bregman , Judith A. Irwin , Ralf-Jurgen Dettmar

We present the first three-dimensional measurements of the velocity of various ejecta knots in Tycho's supernova remnant, known to result from a Type Ia explosion. Chandra X-ray observations over a 12-year baseline from 2003 to 2015 allow…