The young supernova remnant CAS-A has been observed with the Beppo SAX NFI
on August 6 1996.
The image on the left shows the smoothed
MECS2 1.5-10 keV intensity image of CAS A
(detector coordinates). The size of the image is 20 x 20 arcmin.
The image on the right shows a smoothed softness ratio obtained by divinding
two images accumulated in narrow bands centred on the Si 1.8 keV and
Fe 6.6 emission lines. Note the considerable amount of structure
recognizable down to a scale of about 2 arcmin.
Maintained by
F.Fiore
Last update: December 16, 1996