Chandra Observations of a Non-Thermal Supernova Remnant Candidate AX J1843.8-0352 and its Surroundings

Details Chandra Observations of a Non-Thermal Supernova Remnant Candidate AX J1843.8-0352 and its Surroundings Chandra Observations of a Non-Thermal Supernova Remnant Candidate AX J1843.8-0352 and its Surroundings

2003-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301514v1

Astrophys.J. 588 (2003) 338-343

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 5 figures; to appear in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/368355

We present the Chandra results of AX J1843.8-0352, a supernova remnant (SNR) recently identified with ASCA. Chandra spatially resolved two components from this SNR: non-thermal and thermal ones. The morphology of the non-thermal component is clumpy and elliptical, elongated from the north to the south with a mean diameter of about 9 arcmin. The spectrum is fitted with a power-law model of photon index 2.1 and the east rim is associated with the non-thermal radio sources C and F (Helfand et al. 1989). Therefore the non-thermal component is probably synchrotron X-rays by energetic electrons accelerated at the shell of the SNR. The thermal component is the brightest clump located within the non-thermal component and shows a spectrum of a thin plasma of about 0.7 keV temperature. Notable discovery is its peculiar morphology; a head of 50 arcsec x 30 arcsec size near the south-east rim of the SNR and a 30 arcsec-long ``jet'' pointing to the southwest. Although this emission is associated with the west part of the radio source F, the absorption is twice larger than that of the non-thermal X-rays, or the bulk of the SNR emission. Therefore, it is unclear whether this peculiar plasma is a thermal component associated with AX J1843.8-0352, a Galactic source located in the far side of our Galaxy, or an extragalactic source.

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