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L. Townsley, P. Broos, E. Feigelson, D. Burrows (Penn State University), Y.-H. Chu (UIUC), G. Garmire (PSU), R. Griffiths (CMU), Y. Maeda, Y. Tsuboi (PSU)
We present the first high-spatial-resolution X-ray spectra of constituents of the 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Our continuing efforts to remove the spectral effects of CCD charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) due to radiation damage are described.
The central cluster of young high-mass stars, R136, is resolved at the arcsecond level by ACIS, allowing spectral analysis of several constituents. Other Wolf-Rayet stars and multiple systems (e.g. R139, R140) are also detected. Spatially-resolved spectra are presented for N157B, the plerion SNR recently shown by X-ray observations to contain a 16-msec pulsar (Marshall et al., ApJ 499, L179). The spectrally soft superbubble structures seen by ROSAT are visible in the Chandra image; a composite spectrum, improved with CTI correction, is presented.
Support for this effort was provided by NASA contract NAS8-38252 to Gordon Garmire, the ACIS Principal Investigator.
The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: townsley@astro.psu.edu