Discovery of X-rays from the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1

Details Discovery of X-rays from the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 Discovery of X-rays from the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1

1997-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712255v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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4 pages, 1 figure. Uses espcrc2.sty (included). To appear in The Active X-ray Sky: Results from BeppoSAX and Rossi-XTE, Nuclea

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During the $BeppoSAX$ survey of the Galactic Center region, we have discovered X-ray emission from the central region of the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. The high interstellar absorption (N_H about 3 times 10^{23} cm^-2) is consistent with a distance of order of 10 kpc and, correspondingly, an X-ray luminosity of about 10^{35} erg s^{-1}. Although we cannot completely rule out a thermal origin of the X-ray emission, its small angular extent (radius of about 2'), the good fit with a power law, the presence of a flat spectrum radio core, and the estimated SNR age of a few thousand years, favour the interpretation in terms of synchrotron emission powered by a young, energetic pulsar.

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