Vortical amplification of magnetic field at inward shock of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
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astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SRphysics.plasm-ph
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fluxtimeamplificationcassiopeiafieldinwardmagneticremnant
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We present an interpretation of the time variability of the $X$-ray flux recently reported from a multi-epoch campaign of $15$ years observations of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A by {\it Chandra}. We show for the first time quantitatively that the $[4.2-6]$ keV non-thermal flux increase up to $50\%$ traces the growth of the magnetic field due to vortical amplification mechanism at a reflection inward shock colliding with inner overdensities. The fast synchrotron cooling as compared with shock-acceleration time scale qualitatively supports the flux decrease.
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