Modern X-ray telescopes have revealed the exquisite detail and complexity of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies. The metals synthesized in explosions are X-ray bright for many thousands of years, and Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and NuSTAR have offered an up-close view of the nucleosynthetic products and their dispersal into the interstellar medium (ISM). In this talk, I will review...
The interstellar medium (ISM) is heated and ionized by radiation, by stellar winds, and finally, by supernova explosions of massive stars. Since these processes are often correlated in space and time, they can form large interstellar structures called superbubbles, which are filled with hot thin plasma. Supernova remnants and superbubbles can be studied best in soft X-ray line and continuum...
Supernova remnants are prominent candidates for the acceleration of the Galactic cosmic rays. SNRs are well-known sources of thermal X-ray emission originated from the shock-heated gas and non-thermal (synchrotron) emission caused by very high-energy electrons moving in the magnetic fields. Non-thermal X-ray synchrotron emission provides important information about particle acceleration...
We will present a full-color X-ray view of the radio nebula W50 which harbors the remarkable Galactic microquasar SS 433 provided by SRG/eROSITA. This system is a unique showcase of the impact that sources with hyper Eddington accretion rates might have on their environments, featuring jets, shocks, particle acceleration to Very High Energies and more. An unprecedentedly sensitive and complete...
