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CHANDRA SPECTROSCOPY OF SUPERNOVA REMNANT 3C 391

  • CHEN YANG (Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University) ;
  • SU YANG (Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University) ;
  • SLANE PATRICK O. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) ;
  • WANG Q. DANIEL (Department of Astronomy, B619E-LGRT, University of Massachusetts)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

We performed a spatially resolved spectroscopic study of the thermal composite supernova remnant 3C 391 by the Chandra observation. Broad- and narrow-band X-ray images show a southeast-northwest elongated morphology and unveil a highly clumpy structure of the remnant. The spectral analysis for. the small-scale features indicates normal metal abundance and uniform temperature for the interior gas. The properties of the hot gas are largely in agreement with the cloudlet evaporation model as a main mechanism for the 'thermal composite' X-ray appearance, though radiative rim and thermal conduction may also be effective. An unresolved X-ray source, with a power-law spectrum, is observed on the northwest border. The equivalent width images reveal a faint finger-like protrusion in Si and S lines out of the southwest radio border.

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