The Central Compact Object in the Cas A SNR

Details The Central Compact Object in the Cas A SNR The Central Compact Object in the Cas A SNR

Sep 2005

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Chandra Proposal ID #07500535

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Chandra Proposal Id #07500535

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The Casiopeia A supernova remnant has been observed many times with Chandra, including the 1 Ms VLP program. However, none of these observations was suitable for an accurate analysis of the Central Compact Object (CCO), discovered in the first-light Chandra observation. In particular, the CCO spectra were substantially distorted by pileup in the full-frame ACIS observations. We propose to observe the Cas A CCO with ACIS using a setup optimized for the spectral, timing, and spatial analyses of this source. The proposed 70 ks observation will be crucial for understanding the nature of this and other CCOs, whose properties are drastically different from those of the well-familiar radio pulsars or accreting neutron stars.

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