A JWST Survey of the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

We present initial results from a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) survey of the youngest Galactic core-collapse supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A), made up of NIRCam and MIRI imaging mosaics that map emission from the main shell, interior, and surrounding circumstellar/interstellar material (...

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Published in:	The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Main Authors:	Dan Milisavljevic, Tea Temim, Ilse De Looze, Danielle Dickinson, J. Martin Laming, Robert Fesen, John C. Raymond, Richard G. Arendt, Jacco Vink, Bettina Posselt, George G. Pavlov, Ori D. Fox, Ethan Pinarski, Bhagya Subrayan, Judy Schmidt, William P. Blair, Armin Rest, Daniel Patnaude, Bon-Chul Koo, Jeonghee Rho, Salvatore Orlando, Hans-Thomas Janka, Moira Andrews, Michael J. Barlow, Adam Burrows, Roger Chevalier, Geoffrey Clayton, Claes Fransson, Christopher Fryer, Haley L. Gomez, Florian Kirchschlager, Jae-Joon Lee, Mikako Matsuura, Maria Niculescu-Duvaz, Justin D. R. Pierel, Paul P. Plucinsky, Felix D. Priestley, Aravind P. Ravi, Nina S. Sartorio, Franziska Schmidt, Melissa Shahbandeh, Patrick Slane, Nathan Smith, Niharika Sravan, Kathryn Weil, Roger Wesson, J. Craig Wheeler
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Subjects:	Core-collapse supernovae Supernova remnants Neutron stars
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad324b

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