Thermal Structure and Chemical Enrichment of the North and South Polar Spurs: Supersolar N/O and Ne/O in the X-ray Plasma

Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Joshua Kingsbury +5

The North Polar Spur (NPS) is a prominent diffuse X-ray feature whose origin has remained uncertain for decades. Using a uniform analysis of archival \textit{Suzaku} and \textit{XM…