A Complete X-ray View of Supernova Remnant W28 with Einstein Probe: Spatial Distribution of Parameters and Origin of the Thermal-Composite Morphology

Abstract

It has been an unsolved question what leads a supernova remnant (SNR) to a thermal composite rather than a typical shell-like morphology, and what causes recombining plasma inside it. With the 13-ks observation of the Following-up X-ray Telescope onboard the Einstein Probe, we give an overall X-ray picture of W28, one of the prototypical thermal composite SNRs. The observation revealed a shell-like structure west of W28 in radio, optical, and X-ray images, which may revise the known extent of the SNR to $72^{\prime }\times 45^{\prime }$. Spectral analysis explicitly maps that the special relationship where the plasma experiences recombination in the interior of the remnant, spatially coincident with H$\alpha$ emissions, while in the other regions, the plasma is ionization-dominated. We found that W28 is generally isobaric from its center to the newly discovered shell, and it is even isothermal with a temperature of $\sim 0.6$-0.7 keV in the center before the cooling of the plasma. Saturated thermal conduction and cloud evaporation may cool down the plasma within $\sim 3$ kyr, the estimated recombination timescale. We revised the SNR dynamical age to $\sim 8$ kyr, much younger than previous estimates. The complex structure and complex ionization state distribution may suggest that centrally filled and shell-like morphologies coexist in W28. This state may depend on the environment in which the SNR evolves.

Accepted by A&A. 12 pages, 7 figures, 1 long table. 6 pages of Appendices inluding 4 figures and 3 tables

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