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X-ray synchrotron emission tells us of the highest energy reached by accelerated electrons. In a few supernova remnants (SN 1006, G347.3-0.5) this is the dominant form of X-ray radiation, but in most it is superposed to the dominant thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean Ballet

We present a broad band X-ray observation of the Cas A supernova remnant, obtained with the 4 narrow field instruments on board the BeppoSAX satellite. The X-ray spectrum thus obtained spans more than two decades in energy, from ~0.5 to ~80…

The shell type supernova remnant (SNR) Cas A exhibits structures at nearly all angular scales. Previous studies show the angular power spectrum $(C_{\ell})$ of the radio emission to be a broken power law, consistent with MHD turbulence. The…

Using deep Chandra ACIS observation data for Cygnus A, we report evidence of non-thermal X-ray emission from radio lobes surrounded by a rich intra-cluster medium (ICM). The diffuse X-ray emission, which are associated with the eastern and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Yaji , M. S. Tashiro , N. Isobe , M. Kino , K. Asada , H. Nagai , S. Koyama , M. Kusunose

We performed a time-resolved spectral analysis of 53 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by \textit{Fermi}/GBM. Our sample consists of 908 individual spectra extracted from the finest time slices in each GRB. We fitted them with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Dao-Zhou Wang , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Zhao Zhang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Zhao-Yang Peng

Models for characterization of laser-accelerated electron via its produced bremsstrahlung are provided for both thin and thick targets. An effective temperature functional is proposed to overcome the so-called cold and hot "temperatures" in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Guillermo Hernández , Francisco Fernández

The bremsstrahlung cross section for relativistic electrons in a crystal is split into the sum of coherent and incoherent parts (the last is due to a thermal motion of atoms in the crystal). Although the spectrum of incoherent radiation in…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 N. F. Shul'ga , V. V. Syshchenko , A. I. Tarnovsky

High energy observations of Cas A suggested the presence of synchrotron radiation, implying acceleration of cosmic rays by young supernova remnants. We detect synchrotron emission from Cas A in the near-infrared using Two Micron All Sky…

We consider in more detail a model previously proposed for the hard X-ray (>10 keV) emission observed from the supernova remnant Cas A, whereby electrons are accelerated by lower-hybrid waves and radiate bremsstrahlung. We consider both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Martin Laming

We present the results from ASCA observations of the centrally enhanced supernova remnant 3C 391 (G31.9+0.0). We use the ASCA SIS data to carry out an investigation of the spatial and spectral properties of the X-ray emission from this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yang Chen , Patrick Slane

Strong shocks occurring in supernova remnants (SNRs), and their interaction with an often anisotropic surrounding medium, make SNRs ideal laboratories for studying the production and acceleration of cosmic rays (CRs). Due to their complex…

We study the effects of redistributing superthermal electrons on Bremsstrahlung radiation from hot relativistic plasma. We consider thermal and nonthermal distribution of electrons with an energy cutoff in the phase space and explore the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Vadim R. Munirov , Nathaniel J. Fisch

In a hybrid thermal-nonthermal plasma, we find that the dominant emission and absorption mechanisms are synchrotron by nonthermal electrons and bremsstrahlung by thermal electrons. These two processes significantly change the spectrum from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Lin , E. P. Liang

We discuss the X-ray emission observed from Supernova Remnant 1987A with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We analyze a high resolution spectrum obtained in 1999 October with the high energy transmission grating (HETG). From this spectrum we…

The shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to accelerate particles to cosmic ray (CR) energies. The amplification of the magnetic field due to CRs propagating in the shock region is expected to have an impact on both the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Daniel Castro , Laura A. Lopez , Patrick O. Slane , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

We perform kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Bohm-like diffusion assumed, and simple models for Alfvenic drift and dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang

Low frequency observations at 330 and 74 MHz can provide new insights into supernova remnants (SNR). We can test theoretical predictions for spectral index variations. Nonlinear models of shock acceleration predict that the spectra from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristy K. Dyer , Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazik J. Borkowski

We report on NuSTAR observations of the mixed morphology supernova remnant (SNR) W49B, focusing on its nonthermal emission. Whereas radio observations as well as recent gamma-ray observations evidenced particle acceleration in this SNR,…

We present evidence of non-excimer-based secondary scintillation in gaseous xenon, obtained using both the NEXT-White TPC and a dedicated setup. Detailed comparison with first-principle calculations allows us to assign this scintillation…

We discuss the synchrotron emission of fast cooling electrons in shocks. The fast cooling electrons behind the shocks can generate a position-dependent inhomogeneous electron distribution if they do not have enough time to mix…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-27 Xiao-hong Zhao , Jin-ming Bai