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2018ApJ...864...85L - Astrophys. J., 864, 85-85 (2018/September-1)

Spatially resolved broadband synchrotron emission from the nonthermal limbs of SN1006.

LI J.-T., BALLET J., MICELI M., ZHOU P., VINK J., CHEN Y., ACERO F., DECOURCHELLE A. and BREGMAN J.N.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present ∼400 ks NuSTAR observations of the northeast (NE) and southwest (SW) nonthermal limbs of the Galactic SNR SN1006. We discovered three sources with X-ray emission detected at >=50 keV. Two of them are identified as background active galactic nuclei. We extract the NuSTAR spectra from a few regions along the nonthermal limbs and jointly analyze them with the XMM-Newton spectra and the radio data. The broadband radio/X-ray spectra can be well described with a synchrotron emission model from a single population of CR electrons with a power-law energy distribution and an exponential cutoff. The power-law index of the electron particle distribution function (PDF) is ≃1.88-1.95 for both the NE and SW limbs, and we do not find significant evidence for a variation of this index at different energy (curvature). There are significant spatial variations of the synchrotron emission parameters. The highest energy electrons are accelerated in regions with the lowest expansion velocity, which is opposite to what has been found in Tycho's supernova remnant. In addition to a gradual steepening of synchrotron emission from the center of the nonthermal limbs to larger azimuthal angles, we also find that both the emission spectrum and the PDF are significantly flatter in three regions in the SW limb where the shock encounters a higher density ambient medium. The NE limb also shows significantly higher cutoff energy in the PDF than the SW limb. By comparing with the roughly symmetric TeV emission and largely asymmetric GeV emission from the two nonthermal limbs, we conclude that the asymmetry in the ambient medium and magnetic fields may have largely modified the acceleration and emission of CR leptons.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): acceleration of particles - cosmic rays - ISM: supernova remnants - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - shock waves - X-rays: ISM

Nomenclature: Fig. 1, Table 1: [LBM2018] WW N (Nos NE, SW 1-SW 2).

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