Small-scale structure of non-thermal X-rays in historical SNRs

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1439-1442

  Bamba, Aya ^a   Yamazaki, Ryo ^b   Yoshida, Tatsuo ^c   Terasawa, Toshio ^d   Koyama, Katsuji ^e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Cosmic rays; Supernova remnants

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; SHOCK WAVES; SPACE RESEARCH;

NON-THERMAL EMISSION; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURE; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS;

X RAYS;

EID: 33646847297     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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