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ASCA Observation of the Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

E. Miyata
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)
H. Tsunemi
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

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The Cygnus Loop is the prototype shell-like supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brighest SNRs in X-ray wavelength. We have observed the entire Cygnus Loop with the X-ray satellite, ASCA. Its large apparent size, high surface brightness, and low absorption features have made the Cygnus Loop to be an ideal target for the study of the spatially-resolved spectroscopic structure in detail. Part of this work was summarized in Miyata (1996). Here, we present the first X-ray image of the Cygnus Loop obtained with ASCA.

Type
Session 1: Plasma and Fresh Nucleosynthesis Phenomena
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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