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We present an X-ray analysis on the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G298.6-0.0 with Suzaku. The X-ray image shows a center-filled structure inside the radio shell, implying this SNR is categorized as a mixed-morphology (MM) SNR. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Aya Bamba , Makoto Sawada , Yuto Nakano , Yukikatsu Terada , John Hewitt , Robert Petre , Lorella Angelini

Aims. We report the first detailed X-ray study of the supernova remnant (SNR) G304.6+0.1, achieved with the XMM-Newton mission. Methods. The powerful imaging capability of XMM-Newton was used to study the X-ray characteristics of the…

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are complex, three-dimensional objects; properly accounting for this complexity when modeling the resulting X-ray emission presents quite a challenge and makes it difficult to accurately characterize the properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Kari A. Frank , Vikram Dwarkadas , Aldo Panfichi , Ryan Matthew Crum , David N. Burrows

We present a detailed X-ray investigation of a region (S1) exhibiting non-thermal X-ray emission within the supernova remnant (SNR) CTB 37B hosting the magnetar CXOU J171405.7$-$381031. Previous analyses modeled this emission with a power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Chanho Kim , Jaegeun Park , Hongjun An , Kaya Mori , Stephen P. Reynolds , Samar Safi-Harb , Shuo Zhang

Using detailed 3D hydrodynamic simulations we study the nature of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) CTB 109 (G109.1-1.0), which is well-known for its semicircular shape and a bright diffuse X-ray emission feature inside the SNR. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Jan Bolte , Manami Sasaki , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We present the analysis of archival X-ray observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) G21.5-0.9. Based on its morphology and spectral properties, G21.5-0.9 has been classified as a Crab-like SNR. In their early analysis of the CHANDRA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Safi-Harb , I. M. Harrus , R. Petre , G. P. Pavlov , A. B. Koptsevich , D. Sanwal

We present high spatial resolution X-ray spectroscopy of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the {\sl Chandra} observations. The X-ray emitting region of this remnant was divided into 38 $\times$ 34 pixels with a scale of 10$\arcsec$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xue-juan Yang , Fang-jun Lu , Li Chen

We report on the discovery of two supernova remnants (SNRs) designated G152.4-2.1 and G190.9-2.2, using Canadian Galactic Plane Survey data. The aims of this paper are, first, to present evidence that favours the classification of both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-01-15 Tyler Foster , Brendan Cooper , Wolfgang Reich , Roland Kothes , Jennifer West

Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MMSNRs) are characterized by a shell-like morphology in the radio and centrally-peaked thermal emission in the X-ray band. The nature of this peculiar class of supernova remnants (SNRs) remains a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexandros Chiotellis , Emmanouil Zapartas , Dominique M. -A. Meyer

Kes 79 (G33.6+0.1) is an aspherical thermal composite supernova remnant (SNR) observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and showing an unusual highly-structured morphology, in addition to harboring a central compact object (CCO). Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Ping Zhou , Yang Chen , Samar Safi-Harb , Xin Zhou , Ming Sun , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Gao-Yuan Zhang

The problem of missing Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) refers to the issue that the currently known Galactic SNRs are significantly incomplete compared to the theoretical prediction. To expand the sample of Galactic SNRs, we use GLEAM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Tian-Xian Luo , Ping Zhou , Hao-Ning He

Star-forming and starburst galaxies are considered as one of the viable candidate sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrino background detected in IceCube. We revisit contributions of supernova remnants (SNRs) and hypernova remnants (HNRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 Di Xiao , Peter Mészáros , Kohta Murase , Zi-gao Dai

We report on spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy of the north-eastern part of the mixed morphology supernova remnant (SNR) W28 with {\it XMM-Newton}. The observed field of view includes a prominent and twisted shell emission forming the…

We present the results of GBT observations of all four ground-state hydroxyl (OH) transitions toward 15 supernova remnants (SNRs) which show OH(1720 MHz) maser emission. This species of maser is well established as an excellent tracer of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Hewitt , F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle

Recent studies on the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G344.7-0.1 have commonly claimed its origin to be a core-collapse supernova (SN) explosion, based on its highly asymmetric morphology and/or proximity to a star forming region. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Hiroya Yamaguchi , Masaomi Tanaka , Keiichi Maeda , Patrick O. Slane , Adam Foster , Randall K. Smith , Satoru Katsuda , Rie Yoshii

We present an X-ray study of the GeV gamma-ray supernova remnant (SNR) HB 21 with Suzaku. HB 21 is interacting with molecular clouds and the faintest in the GeV band among known GeV SNRs. We discovered strong radiative recombination…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yoshihiro Furuta , Makoto Sawada , Ryo Yamazaki , Katsuji Koyama

G272.2-3.2 is a supernova remnant (SNR) characterized by an apparent centrally brightened X-ray morphology and thermally dominated X-ray emission. Because of this combination of Sedov-type (thermal emission) and non-Sedov type (non-shell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. M. Harrus , P. O. Slane , R. Smith , J. P. Hughes

The outer shells of young supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most plausible acceleration sites of high-energy electrons with the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. We studied spatial and spectral properties close to the shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Tatsuo Yoshida , Toshio Terasawa , Katsuji Koyama

Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MM SNRs) are a mysterious class of objects that display thermal X-ray emission within their radio shell. They are an older class of SNRs, and as such are profoundly affected by the environment into which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 M. Arias , J. Vink , M. Iacobelli , V. Domcek , M. Haverkorn , J. B. R. Oonk , I. Polderman , W. Reich , G. J. White , P. Zhou

Results from the 327-MHz Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations of four fields - three fields containing Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) (G001.4-0.1, G003.8+0.3, and G356.3-1.5) and one field containing a candidate SNR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sanjay Bhatnagar