Abstract The study of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the X-ray band is greatly benefiting from the availability of the large collecting area, high spatial resolution and good spectral resolution of instruments aboard XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites. The possibility of performing accurate spatially resolved spectra analysis is of course of great importance for the study of extended sources. In this review, I will briefly present a few SNR topics which, on my opinion, have greatly advanced thanks to the current generation X-ray observatories, with the aim to give a general idea on the quality of the data and the kind of research that people are doing with them.
Keywords supernova remnants -- X-rays: supernova remnants
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