5.9-keV Mn K-shell X-ray luminosity from the decay of 55Fe in Type Ia supernova models

Seitenzahl, Ivo; Summa, A; Krauss, F.; Sim, Stuart; Diehl, R; Elsasser, D; Fink, M; Hillebrandt, Wolfgang; Kromer, M; Maeda, Keiichi; Mannheim, K; Seitenzahl, I. R.; Ruiter, A. J.

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5.9-keV Mn K-shell X-ray luminosity from the decay of 55Fe in Type Ia supernova models

Date

2014

Authors

Seitenzahl, Ivo

Summa, A

Krauss, F.

Sim, Stuart

Diehl, R

Elsasser, D

Fink, M

Hillebrandt, Wolfgang

Kromer, M

Maeda, Keiichi

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We show that the X-ray line flux of the Mn Kα line at 5.9 keV from the decay of 55Fe is a promising diagnostic to distinguish between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion models. Using radiation transport calculations, we compute the line flux for two thr