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We compare the radio and soft X-ray brightness as a function of position within the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. A moderately strong correlation (r = 0.7) was found between the X-ray emission (corrected for interstellar absorption)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jonathan W. Keohane , Lawrence Rudnick , Martha C. Anderson

We report on results from Suzaku broadband X-ray observations of the southwest part of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 with an energy coverage of 0.4-40 keV. The X-ray spectrum, presumably of synchrotron origin, is…

The radio galaxy Cen A has been detected all the way up to the TeV energy range. This raises the question about the dominant emission mechanisms in the high-energy domain. Spectral analysis allows us to put constraints on the possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Beckmann , P. Jean , P. Lubinski , S. Soldi , R. Terrier

Gamma Cassiopeiae is an enigmatic Be star with unusually strong hard X-ray emission. The Suzaku observatory detected six rapid X-ray spectral hardening events called "softness dips" in a ~100 ksec duration observation in 2011. All the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 K. Hamaguchi , L. Oskinova , C. M. P. Russell , R. Petre , T. Enoto , K. Morihana , M. Ishida

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 remnant of SN 1006 has an X-ray spectrum dominated by nonthermal emission, and pre-ASCA observations were well described by a synchrotron calculation with electron energies limited by escape. We describe the results of a much more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. Dyer , S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski , G. E. Allen , R. Petre

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 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

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

We perform X-ray studies of the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) gamma-Cygni associated with the brightest EGRET unidentified source 3EG J2020+4017. In addition to the thermal emissions with characteristic temperature of kT = 0.5-0.9 keV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasunobu Uchiyama , Tadayuki Takahashi , Felix Aharonian , John Mattox

We revisit the average hard X-ray spectrum from the AGN of Centaurus A (Cen A) using ten years worth of observations with INTEGRAL SPI. This source has the highest flux observed from any AGN in the SPI bandpass (23 keV--8 MeV). The 10 year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark J. Burke , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques , Daniel A. Evans

We present the results of a broad-band X-ray study of the enigmatic Be star Gamma Cassiopeiae (herein gamma Cas) based on observations made with both the Suzaku and INTEGRAL observatories. gamma Cas has long been recognized as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 C. R. Shrader , K. Hamaguchi , S. J. Sturner , L. M. Oskinova , T. Almeyda , R. Petre

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

Combining archival data taken at radio and infrared wavelengths with state-of-the-art measurements at X-ray and gamma-ray energies, we assembled a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of Cas A, a young supernova remnant. Except for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Miguel Araya , Wei Cui

gamma Cas is known for its hard and intense X-ray emission that could trace accretion by a compact companion, wind interaction with a hot sub-dwarf companion, or magnetic interaction between the star and its Be decretion disc. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Gregor Rauw , Yaël Nazé , Christian Motch , Myron A. Smith , Joan Guarro Fló , Raimundo Lopes de Oliveira

We present the results of a joint spectral analysis of RXTE PCA, ASCA SIS, and ROSAT PSPC data of the supernova remnant SN 1006. This work represents the first attempt to model both the thermal and nonthermal X-ray emission over the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. E. Allen , R. Petre , E. V. Gotthelf

I investigate the shape of the electron cosmic ray spectrum in the range up to ~1000 keV, assuming that the acceleration process at the shock results in a power law in momentum, and that downstream of the shock the spectrum is affected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Jacco Vink

We report the detection of both the 67.9 and 78.4 keV 44Sc gamma-ray lines in Cassiopeia A with the INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI instrument. Besides the robustness provided by spectro-imaging observations, the main improvements compared to previous…

We performed a spectral analysis of some Chandra ACIS and RXTE PCA data for the supernova remnant Cas A. A very large (1.1 Ms) ACIS data set is used to identify regions dominated by synchrotron radiation. The best-fit spectral models for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-27 G. E. Allen , M. D. Stage , J. C. Houck

We mapped 12CO J=1-0, 12CO J=2-1, 13CO J=1-0, and 13CO J=2-1 lines toward supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A with the IRAM 30m telescope. The molecular clouds (MCs) along the line of sight of Cas A do not show optically thin,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Ping Zhou , Jiang-Tao Li , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Jacco Vink , Yang Chen , Maria Arias , Daniel Patnaude , Joel N. Bregman