Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. III. An X-Ray Atlas of Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnants
Abstract
We have used archival ROSAT data to present X-ray images of 31 supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have classified these remnants according to their X-ray morphologies, into the categories of shell-type, diffuse face, centrally brightened, point-source-dominated, and irregular. We suggest possible causes of the X-ray emission for each category and for individual features of some of the SNRs.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- August 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1086/313246
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9905073
- Bibcode:
- 1999ApJS..123..467W
- Keywords:
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- ATLASES;
- GALAXIES: MAGELLANIC CLOUDS;
- ISM: SUPERNOVA REMNANTS;
- SURVEYS;
- X-RAYS: ISM;
- Atlases;
- Galaxies: Magellanic Clouds;
- ISM: Supernova Remnants;
- Surveys;
- X-Rays: ISM;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 27 pages, 6 figures (9 figure files). To appear in the Supplement Series of the Astrophysical Journal, August 1999 Vol. 123 #2
