A physical interpretation of the jet-like X-ray emission from supernova remnant W49B

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 390-395

  Miceli, M ^a,b,c   Decourchelle, A ^a   Ballet, J ^a   Bocchino, F ^c   Hughes, J ^d   Hwang, U ^e,f   Petre, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PALERMO   (Italy)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ISM: individual object: W49B; ISM: supernova remnants; X rays: ISM

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MASS TRANSFER; X RAY ANALYSIS;

INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; SUPERNOVA; X-RAY SPECTRUM;

STARS;

EID: 37849046151     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.030     Document Type: Article

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