Aaron Tran (supervisors: Rob Petre, Brian J. Williams)
CRESST, NASA GSFC
Summer 2014
Analysis of thin synchrotron emitting filaments in historical supernova remnants. Pipeline to generate and fit radial intensity profiles from Chandra observations of Tycho's SNR. Model code (Sean Ressler and Steve Reynolds) to compute magnetic fields and diffusion coefficients/scaling consistent with observed rim width - energy relationships.
Work largely follows Ressler, Katsuda, Reynolds et al., ApJ, in press., preprint at arXiv:1406.3630.
Many necessary files (image files, raw Chandra data, energy spectra) are not under version control and need to be redownloaded / regenerated to retrace or extend this work.
Contact: forename.surname@berkeley.edu (substitute appropriately).
Most important folders are:
code\
code-profiles\
code-models\
data\
The file pipeline.md sketches out how to use the code pipeline to create
derived measurement products and run models for filament synchrotron emission.