Probing the Central Engine of the Plerionic SNR CTB 87

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Sep 2009

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Chandra proposal ID #11500078

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Pulsar wind nebulae (or plerions) are an ideal laboratory to study the physics of neutron stars and particle acceleration; and Chandra is the ideal satellite to probe their powering engines and image their X-ray emission with an unprecedented resolution. Among the plerionic SNRs, nearly a dozen have properties that differ from the Crab nebula, and are therefore dubbed as plerions of the `second kind'. We propose to explore CTB 87, the least studied member of this class in X-rays, in order to study the putative pulsar and perform a high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic study of the plerion, including the search for structures associated with the deposition of the neutron star's energy into its surroundings.

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