Abstract

We present the preliminary results of a Chandra X-ray study of N132D, a young shell-like supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The equivalent width maps of emissions from O, Ne, Mg, Si, and S are provided. Spatially resolved spectral analysis for the small-scale regions were tentatively performed. X-ray spectra of the interior can be described with a single-thermal model. The faint interior regions have lower density, higher temperature above 1 keV than that of bright interior regions. The X-ray spectra along the shell can be phenomenally fitted with either a double- vpshock model or a vpshock + powerlaw model. If the non-thermal component is true, N132D would be listed as another X-ray synchrotron SNR.

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