Wednesday, August 29, 2012

1208.5560 (Shigeo Yamauchi et al.)

Evidence for Recombining Plasma in the Supernova Remnant G346.6-0.2    [PDF]

Shigeo Yamauchi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Katsuji Koyama, Manami Yonemori
We present the Suzaku results of the supernova remnant (SNR) G346.6-0.2. The X-ray emission has a center-filled morphology with the size of 6' x 8' within the radio shell. Neither an ionization equilibrium nor non-equilibrium (ionizing) plasma can reproduce the spectra remaining shoulder-like residuals in the 2-4 keV band. These structures are possibly due to recombination of free electrons to the K-shell of He-like Si and S. The X-ray spectra are well fitted with a plasma model in a recombination dominant phase. We propose that the plasma was in nearly full ionized state at high temperature of 5 keV, then the plasma changed to a recombining phase due to selective cooling of electrons to lower temperature of 0.3 keV. G346.6-0.2 would be in an epoch of the recombining phase.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5560

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