X-ray studies of supernova remnants: A different view of supernova explosions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7141-7146

  Badenes, Carles ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Nucleosynthesis; Supernova remnants; Supernovae; X rays

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; EXPLOSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SPACE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952153614     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914189107     Document Type: Review

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