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In this paper, we investigate the possibility of significant production of thermal bremsstrahlung radiation at radio continuum frequencies that could be linked to some Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). The main targets for this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Onic , D. Urosevic , B. Arbutina , D. Leahy

We study the non-thermal emission from old shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) on the frame of a time-dependent model. In this model, the time-dependent non-thermal spectra of both primary electrons and protons as well as secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Fang , Li Zhang

A systematic study of the synchrotron X-ray emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted. We selected a total of 12 SNRs whose synchrotron X-ray spectral parameters are available in the literature with reasonable accuracy, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ryoko Nakamura , Aya Bamba , Tadayasu Dotani , Manabu Ishida , Ryo Yamazaki , Kazunori Kohri

Based on observations with the $Chandra$ X-ray Observatory, we present the latest spectral evolution of the X-ray remnant of SN 1987A (SNR 1987A). We present a high-resolution spectroscopic analysis using our new deep ($\sim$312 ks)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-09 Aravind P. Ravi , Sangwook Park , Svetozar A. Zhekov , Marco Miceli , Salvatore Orlando , Kari A. Frank , David N. Burrows

Distributions of nonthermal surface brightness of supernova remnants (SNRs) contain important information about the properties of magnetic field and acceleration of charged particles. In the present paper, the synchrotron radio, X-ray, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 O. Petruk , S. Orlando , V. Beshley , F. Bocchino

We used the BIMA array to map the supernova remnant Cas A from 28 to 87 GHz with 2'' to 7'' angular resolution. Data from 75 to 87 GHz, with 19 pointing centers were combined with single dish data to form a completely sampled image. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Melvyn Wright , John Dickel , Barron Koralesky , Lawrence Rudnick

Cassiopeia A (Cas A) as the nearby young remnant of a core-collapse supernova is the best candidate for astrophysical studies in supernova explosion and its environment. We studied hard X-ray emissions from Cas A using the ten-year data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-13 Wei Wang , Zhuo Li

Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) is an approach to measuring the energy of an electron trapped in an externally applied magnetic field. The bare electron can come from different interactions, including photoelectric…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Kareem Kazkaz , Nathan Woollett

Within thunderstorms electrons can gain energies of up to hundred(s) of MeV. These electrons can create X-rays and gamma-rays as Bremsstrahlung when they collide with air molecules. Here we calculate the distribution of angles between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Christoph Köhn , Ute Ebert

By applying a method of virtual quanta we derive formulae for relativistic non-thermal bremsstrahlung radiation from relativistic electrons as well as from protons and heavier particles with power-law momentum distribution $N(p)dp = k…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-19 Vladimir Zeković , Bojan Arbutina , Aleksandra Dobardzić , Marko Pavlović

We present estimates of the angular power spectra of the synchrotron radiation intensity fluctuations at 6 and 20 cm for the shell type supernova remnant Cas A and the filled-centre Crab supernova remnant. We find that the intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-23 Nirupam Roy , Somnath Bharadwaj , Prasun Dutta , Jayaram N. Chengalur

The outer shells of young supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most plausible acceleration sites of high-energy electrons with the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. We studied spatial and spectral properties close to the shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Tatsuo Yoshida , Toshio Terasawa , Katsuji Koyama

The spectral index of synchrotron emission is an important parameter in understanding the properties of cosmic ray electrons (CREs) and the interstellar medium (ISM). We determine the synchrotron spectral index ($\alpha_{\rm nt}$) of four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Aritra Basu , Rainer Beck , Philip Schmidt , Subhashis Roy

In this article the neutrino bremsstrahlung process is considered in presence of strong magnetic field, though the calculations for this process in absence of magnetic field are also carried out simultaneously. The electrons involved in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Indranath Bhattacharyya

The interpretation of Galactic synchrotron observations is complicated by the degeneracy between the strength of the magnetic field perpendicular to the line of sight (LOS), $B_\perp$, and the cosmic-ray electron (CRe) spectrum. Depending…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-28 Marco Padovani , Andrea Bracco , Vibor Jelić , Daniele Galli , Elena Bellomi

Context. Young supernova remnants (SNRs) exhibit narrow filaments of non-thermal X-ray emission whose widths can be limited either by electron energy losses or damping of the magnetic field. Aims. We want to investigate whether or not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-28 Robert Rettig , Martin Pohl

Decomposing an arbitrary electron energy distribution into sums of Maxwellian and power law components is an efficient method to calculate synchrotron emission and absorption. We use this method to study the effect of non-thermal electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 S. Alwin Mao , Jason Dexter , Eliot Quataert

Within a covariant effective one-boson exchange model for the $T$ matrix of $NN$ interactions we present detailed calculations of bremsstrahlung cross sections for proton - proton and proton - neutron reactions at beam energies in the 1 GeV…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Shklyar , B. Kämpfer , B. L. Reznik , A. I. Titov

We revisit the average hard X-ray spectrum from the AGN of Centaurus A (Cen A) using ten years worth of observations with INTEGRAL SPI. This source has the highest flux observed from any AGN in the SPI bandpass (23 keV--8 MeV). The 10 year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark J. Burke , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques , Daniel A. Evans

There has recently been interest in the role of inverse bremsstrahlung, the emission of photons by fast suprathermal ions in collisions with ambient electrons possessing relatively low velocities, in tenuous plasmas in various astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthew G. Baring , Frank C. Jones , Donald C. Ellison
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