{
  "id": "0910.3208",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-10-19T18:06:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-10-19T18:06:10.000Z",
  "title": "Typing Supernova Remnants Using X-ray Line Emission Morphologies",
  "authors": [
    "Laura A. Lopez",
    "Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz",
    "Carles Badenes",
    "Daniela Huppenkothen",
    "Tesla E. Jeltema",
    "David A. Pooley"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in ApJL",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a new observational method to type the explosions of young supernova remnants (SNRs). By measuring the morphology of the Chandra X-ray line emission in seventeen Galactic and Large Magellanic Cloud SNRs with a multipole expansion analysis (using power ratios), we find that the core-collapse SNRs are statistically more asymmetric than the Type Ia SNRs. We show that the two classes of supernovae can be separated naturally using this technique because X-ray line morphologies reflect the distinct explosion mechanisms and structure of the circumstellar material. These findings are consistent with recent spectropolarimetry results showing that core-collapse SNe are intrinsically more asymmetric.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-10-19T18:06:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "morphology",
      "x-ray line emission morphologies",
      "typing supernova remnants",
      "x-ray line morphologies reflect",
      "chandra x-ray line emission"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/L106",
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 706,
      "number": 1
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 834265,
      "adsabs": "2009ApJ...706L.106L"
    }
  }
}