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The Central X‐Ray Point Source in Cassiopeia A

The Central X‐Ray Point Source in Cassiopeia A

The spectacular "first light" observation by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed an X-ray point source near the center of the 300 yr old Cas A supernova remnant. We present an analysis of the public X-ray spectral and timing data. No coherent pulsations were detected in the Chandra/HRC data. The 3 …