Evidence of shock modification in SN 1006

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cfdd.confe.159m&link_type=abstract

Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Proceedings of the conference held 22-25 September, 2009 in Boston, MA. Edited by Scott Wo

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Recent theoretical studies have shown that X-ray thermal emission from modified shocks in SNRs can be a powerful diagnostic tool of particle acceleration processes. By using XMM-Newton archive and proprietary data, we present the first complete description of the thermal X-ray emission at the rim of SN 1006, separating it from the non-thermal contribution. We find that thermal X-ray emission is not associated with shocked ISM, but with the the ejecta, and we identify anisotropies in their temperature and chemical composition. We trace the position of the contact discontinuity over the entire shell and we test our results by analyzing a Chandra archive observation of the north-eastern part of the rim. We compare the observed distance between shock front and contact discontinuity with that expected from 3-D MHD models of SNRs with an unmodified shock, concluding that the shock is modified everywhere in the rim.

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