Observations of the limb solar flare on 1980 April 30 with the SMM X-ray polychromator
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Gabriel, A. H.↗
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Kayat, M. A.
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X-ray image of the Cygnus Loop
An X-ray picture of the Cygnus Loop, recorded with an imaging X-ray telescope, is presented. The results are highly suggestive of a limb-brightened shell of hot gas which results from the expansion of a blast wave into the interstellar medium. Spatial structure is clearly evident on scale sizes down to about 1/4 deg, a likely indication of the inhomogeneities in the interstellar medium. No evidence is found for any discrete X-ray-emitting remnant of the original supernova explosion.
Rappaport, S.↗
A soft X-ray image of the Cygnus Loop SNR
The first true X-ray image of a galactic source is presented. X-ray emission from the Cygnus Loop SNR was recorded with a rocket-borne soft X-ray imaging system having an angular resolution of approximately 10 arcmin (0.1-1.0 keV). The image suggests X-ray production arising from an asymmetrical limb-brightened shell of hot plasma, resulting from a blast wave expanding into the interstellar medium, the inherent inhomogeneity of which is indicated by spatial structure in the image, observed on scale sizes down to approximately 0.25 deg. No evidence for a central, unresolved X-ray source is found and no significant detection made of any of the unresolved radio sources which may be associated with the SNR. Significant spectral variations are observed across the image.
Kayat, M. A.↗