著者

Tamagawa Toru Hayato Asami Nakamura Satoshi TERADA Yukikatsu BAMBA Aya HIRAGA Junko S. HUGHES John P. HWANG Una KATAOKA Jun KINUGASA Kenzo KUNIEDA Hideyo TANAKA Takaaki TSUNEMI Hiroshi UENO Masaru HOLT Stephen S. KOKUBUN Motohide MIYATA Emi SZYMKOWIAK Andrew TAKAHASHI Tadayuki TAMURA Keisuke UENO Daisuke MAKISHIMA Kazuo

出版者

社団法人日本天文学会

雑誌

PASJ : publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (ISSN:00046264)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.61, no.1, pp.S167-S174, 2009-01-30

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Tycho's supernova remnant was observed by the XIS and HXD instruments onboard the Suzaku satellite on 2006 June 26-29 for 92 ks. The spectrum up to 30 keV was well fitted with a two-component model, consisting of a power-law with photon index of 2.7 and a thermal bremsstrahlung model with temperature of 4.7 keV. The former component can alternatively be modeled as synchrotron emission from a population of relativistic electrons with an estimated roll-off energy of around 1 keV. In the XIS spectra, in addition to the prominent Fe K_alpha line (6.445 keV), we observe for the first time significant K_alpha line emission from the trace species Cr and Mn at energies of 5.48 keV and 5.95 keV, respectively. Faint K_beta lines from Ca (4.56 keV) and Fe (7.11 keV) are also seen. The ionization states of Cr and Mn, based on their line centroids, are estimated to be similar to that of Fe K_alpha (Fe XV or XVI).