The X-Ray remnant of SN 1987A

David N. Burrows; Eli Michael; Una Hwang; Richard McCray; Roger A. Chevalier; Robert Petre; Gordon P. Garmire; Stephen S. Holt; John A. Nousek

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The X-Ray remnant of SN 1987A

David N. Burrows, Eli Michael, Una Hwang, Richard McCray, Roger A. Chevalier, Robert Petre, Gordon P. Garmire, Stephen S. Holt, John A. Nousek

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Abstract

We present high-resolution Chandra observations of the remnant of SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The high angular resolution of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory permits us to resolve the X-ray remnant. We find that the remnant is shell-like in morphology, with X-ray peaks associated with some of the optical hot spots seen in Hubble Space Telescope images. The X-ray light curve has deviated from the linear flux increase observed by ROSAT, with a 0.5-2.0 keV luminosity of 1.5#1035 ergs s21 in 2000 January. We set an upper limit of 2.3#1034 ergs s21 on the observed luminosity of any embedded central source (0.5-2 keV). We also present a high-resolution spectrum and show that the X-ray emission is thermal in origin and is dominated by highly ionized species of O, Ne, Mg, and Si.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	L149-L152
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	543
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/428653
State	Published - Nov 10 2000

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Burrows, D. N., Michael, E., Hwang, U., McCray, R., Chevalier, R. A., Petre, R., Garmire, G. P., Holt, S. S., & Nousek, J. A. (2000). The X-Ray remnant of SN 1987A. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 543(2), L149-L152. https://doi.org/10.1086/428653

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