@article{ebd85bd1d4e6485faf0bc6195e8d0985,
title = "The X-Ray remnant of SN 1987A",
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.",
author = "Burrows, {David N.} and Eli Michael and Una Hwang and Richard McCray and Chevalier, {Roger A.} and Robert Petre and Garmire, {Gordon P.} and Holt, {Stephen S.} and Nousek, {John A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by NASA contract NAS8-38252 and NASA grant NGT5-80. Support was also provided by NASA through grant GO-08243 from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. We are grateful to Bryan Gaensler and to Peter Challis and the SINS team for providing their data for comparison with our Chandra observations, and to the HETG team at MIT for assistance with the analysis of the dispersed spectrum. The superb performance of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is the result of years of work by thousands of scientists, engineers, and managers, and we are deeply indebted to their efforts. Finally, we acknowledge the very useful comments of our referee, which resulted in significant improvements to this Letter. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2000. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2000",
month = nov,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1086/428653",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "543",
pages = "L149--L152",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal Letters",
issn = "2041-8205",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "2",
}