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Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds III: An X-ray Atlas of LMC Supernova Remnants

Rosa Murphy Williams, You-Hua Chu, John R. Dickel, Robert Petre, R. Chris Smith, Maritza Tavarez

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9905073

Abstract

We have used archival ROSAT data to present X-ray images of thirty-one supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have classified these remnants according to their X-ray morphologies, into the categories of Shell-Type, Diffuse Face, Centrally Brightened, Point-Source Dominated, and Irregular. We suggest possible causes of the X-ray emission for each category, and for individual features of some of the SNRs.

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