Slow Temperature Equilibration Behind the Shock Front of SN 1006

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2003-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303051v1

Astrophys.J. 587 (2003) L31-L34

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal Letters, 4 pages, 4 figures. One of the original figures has been replaced by a color versio

Scientific paper

10.1086/375125

We report on the observation of OVII Doppler line broadening in a compact knot at the edge of SN 1006 detected with the Reflective Grating Spectrometer on board XMM-Newton. The observed line width of sigma = 3.4+/-0.5 eV at a line energy of 574 eV indicates an oxygen temperature of kT = 528+/-150 keV. Combined with the observed electron temperature of 1.5 keV the observed broadening is direct evidence for temperature non-equilibration in high Mach number shocks, and slow subsequent equilibration. The OVII line emission allows an accurate determination of the ionization state of the plasma, which is characterized by a relatively high forbidden line contribution, indicating log(n_e t) ~ 9.2.

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