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Anisotropic thermal conduction plays an important role in various astrophysical systems. One of the most stringent tests of thermal conduction can be found in supernova remnants. In this paper we study anisotropic thermal conduction and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-14 D. S. Balsara , D. A. Tilley , J. C. Howk

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

We study the stochastic electron acceleration by fast mode waves in the turbulent downstream of weakly magnetized collisionless astrophysical shocks. The acceleration is most efficient in a dissipative layer, and the model characteristics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Siming Liu , Zhong-Hui Fan , Christopher L. Fryer , Jian-Min Wang , Hui Li

Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) play an important role in our understanding of supernovae and their feedback on the interstellar environment. SNR G352.7$-$0.1 is special for its thermal composite morphology and double-ring structure. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-24 Qian-Qian Zhang , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Wen-Juan Zhong , Xin Zhou , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Jacco Vink

The mixed morphology class of supernova remnants has centrally peaked X-ray emission along with a shell-like morphology in radio emission. White & Long proposed that these remnants are evolving in a cloudy medium wherein the clouds are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Jonathan D. Slavin , Randall K. Smith , Adam Foster , Henry D. Winter , John C. Raymond , Patrick O. Slane , Hiroya Yamaguchi

Over the past decade, $\gamma$-ray observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and accurate cosmic-ray (CR) spectral measurements have significantly advanced our understanding of particle acceleration in SNRs. In combination with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-10 Xiao Zhang , Siming Liu

We study the escape of cosmic-ray protons accelerated at a supernova remnant (SNR). We are interested in their propagation in interstellar medium (ISM) after they leave the shock neighborhood where they are accelerated, but when they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Fumio Takahara

Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) is well-established as a source of particle acceleration to very high energies. Constraints from numerous studies indicate that the observed gamma-ray emission results primarily from hadronic processes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Slane , S. -H. Lee , D. C. Ellison , D. J. Patnaude , J. P. Hughes , K. A. Eriksen , D. Castro , S. Nagataki

We model the thermal dust emission from dust grains heated by synchrotron radiation and by particle collisions, under conditions appropriate for four different shocked and unshocked gas components of the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 F. D. Priestley , M. J. Barlow , I. De Looze

We use the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the region in the Tycho supernova remnant between the blast wave and the shocked ejecta interface or contact discontinuity. This zone contains all the history of the shock-heated gas and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gamil Cassam-Chenai , John P. Hughes , Jean Ballet , Anne Decourchelle

Aims: We study the supernova remnant G20.0-0.2 and its surroundings in order to look for the high energy counterpart of the radio nebula and to find evidence of interaction between the shock front and the interstellar medium. Methods: We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alberto Petriella , Sergio Paron , Elsa Giacani

The supernova explosion increases cosmic ray and x-ray fluxes in the surrounding interstellar medium. Cosmic ray particles and x-ray radiation penetrate nearby molecular clouds and affect the chemical and thermal evolution of the gas. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 A. V. Nesterenok

Aims. The properties of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) RX J0852.0-4622 are theoretically analysed. Methods. An explicitly time-dependent, nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs is used to describe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. G. Berezhko , G. Pühlhofer , H. J. Völk

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants is the most widely invoked paradigm to explain the Galactic cosmic ray spectrum. Cosmic rays escaping supernova remnants diffuse in the interstellar medium and collide with the ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Casanova , D. I. Jones , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Fukui , S. Gabici , A. Kawamura , T. Onishi , G. Rowell , H. Sano , K. Torii , H. Yamamoto

We present an analytical model of $\Sigma-D$ relation for supernova remnants (SNRs) evolving in a clumpy medium. The model and its approximations were developed using the hydrodynamic simulations of SNRs in environments of low-density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-13 Petar Kostić , Bojan Arbutina , Branislav Vukotić , Dejan Urošević

This paper reports the first discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission from a supernova remnant made with the CANGAROO 3.8 m Telescope. TeV gamma rays were detected at the sky position and extension coincident with the north-east (NE) rim of…

A number of supernova remnants (SNRs) show nonthermal X-rays assumed to be synchrotron emission from shock accelerated TeV electrons. The existence of these TeV electrons strongly suggests that the shocks in SNRs are sources of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald C. Ellison , Anne Decourchelle , Jean Ballet

The instability in the cosmic-ray precursor of a supernova shock moving in interstellar medium is studied. The level of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in this region determines the maximum energy of particles accelerated by the diffusive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 V. S. Ptuskin , V. N. Zirakashvili

The very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission observed from a number of Supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates particle acceleration to high energies at the shock of the remnants and a potentially significant contribution to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Iurii Sushch , Robert Brose , Martin Pohl , Pavlo Plotko , Samata Das

Since 1996 the blast wave driven by SN 1987A has been interacting with the dense circumstellar material, which provides us with a unique opportunity to study the early evolution of a newborn supernova remnant (SNR). Based on the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Lei Sun , Jacco Vink , Yang Chen , Ping Zhou , Dmitry Prokhorov , Gerd Puhlhofer , Denys Malyshev
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