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Caption: Fig. 3.
The multiwavelength photon spectrum of Cas A. The four broken lines are estimates of the fluxes from synchrotron radiation (S), nonthermal bremsstrahlung (NB), inverse Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background (IC), and the decay of neutral pions (π0). See text for details.
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