HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM THE COMPOSITE SUPERNOVA REMNANT MSH 15-56

MSH 15-56 (G326.3–1.8) is a composite supernova remnant (SNR) that consists of an SNR shell and a displaced pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the radio. We present XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray observations of the remnant that reveal a compact source at the tip of the radio PWN and complex structures that...

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Main Authors: Temim, Tea, Slane, Patrick, Castro, Daniel, Plucinsky, Paul P., Gelfand, Joseph D., Dickel, John R.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93204
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-727X