Abstract

We present the 2‐ 60 keV spectrum of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A measured using the Proportional Counter Array and the High Energy X-Ray Timing Experiment on the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite. In addition to the previously reported strong emission-line features produced by thermal plasmas, the broadband spectrum has a high-energy “tail” that extends to energies at least as high as 120 keV. This tail may be described by a broken power law that has photon indices of G1 5 1.820.6

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