Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-07-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 postscript figures, 1 postscript table, latex uses epsfig.sty, aipproc.sty, to appear in the proc. of the 4th COMPT
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.53930
We report the results of extracting the hard X-ray continuum spectrum of Cas A SNR from RXTE/PCA Target of Opportunity (TOO) observations and CGRO/OSSE observations. The data can rule out the single thermal bremsstrahlung model for Cas A continuum between 2 and 150 keV. The single power law model gives a mediocre fit (~5%) to the data with a power-law index, $\Gamma$ = 2.94$\pm$0.02. A model with two component (bremsstrahlung + bremsstrahlung or bremsstrahlung + power law) gives a good fit. The power law index is quite constrained suggesting that this continuum might not be the X-ray thermal bremmstrahlung from accelerated MeV electrons at shock fronts (Asvarov et al. 1989) which would have $\Gamma\simeq$2.26. With several SNRs detected by ASCA showing a hard power-law nonthermal X-ray continuum, we expect a similar situation for Cas A SNR which has $\Gamma$=2.98$\pm$0.09. We discuss the implication of the hardest nonthermal X-rays detected from Cas A to the synchrotron radiation model.
Bhattacharya Dipen
Blanco Philip
Hartmann Dieter H.
Kurfess James D.
Leising Mark D.
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