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Stochastic acceleration of electrons and protons by waves propagating parallel to the large scale magnetic fields of magnetized plasmas is studied with emphasis on the feasibility of accelerating particles from a thermal background to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vahé Petrosian , Siming Liu

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates for the source of cosmic rays, at least to energies up to ~10^14 eV, it is only over the past several years that direct evidence of such energetic particles in SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

Nonlinear model of diffusive shock acceleration is used for investigation of the particle acceleration in old supernova remnants W28 and W44. We modeled the hydrodynamical evolution of the remnants, shock modification and streaming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-17 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin

The end of supernova remnant (SNR) evolution is characterized by a so-called "radiative" stage, in which efficient cooling of the hot bubble inside the forward shock slows expansion, leading to eventual shock breakup. Understanding SNR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Rebecca Diesing , Minghao Guo , Chang-Goo Kim , James Stone , Damiano Caprioli

The model of stochastic acceleration of particles by turbulence has been successful in explaining many observed features of solar flares. Here we demonstrate a new method to obtain the accelerated electron spectrum and important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vahe Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

The broad-band X-ray observations of the youngest known galactic supernova remnant, G1.9+0.3, provide unique information about the particle acceleration at the early stages of evolution of supernova remnants. Based on the publicly available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Rui-zhi Yang , Xiao-na Sun , Felix Aharonian

The shock fronts of supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be significant sites of acceleration of cosmic ray particles. Previous researchers have shown that a particle distribution similar to a log-parabola can be generated when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua J. Ziegler , Justin D. Finke , J. Martin Laming

Collisionless shock waves, found in supernova remnants, interstellar, stellar, and planetary environments, and laboratories, are one of nature's most powerful particle accelerators. This study combines in situ satellite measurements with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Savvas Raptis , Ahmad Lalti , Martin Lindberg , Drew L. Turner , Damiano Caprioli , James L. Burch

The supernova remnant (SNR) RX J0852-4622 (Vela Jr., G266.6-1.2) is one of the most important SNRs for investigating the acceleration of multi-TeV particles and the origin of Galactic cosmic rays because of its strong synchrotron X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Tetsuichi Kishishita , Junko Hiraga , Yasunobu Uchiyama

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to produce the majority of galactic cosmic rays (CRs). SNRs harbor non-relativistic collisionless shocks responsible for acceleration of CRs via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA), in which particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-20 Artem Bohdan

Observations of synchrotron radiation across a wide range of wavelengths provide clear evidence that electrons are accelerated to relativistic energies in supernova remnants (SNRs). However, a viable mechanism for the pre-acceleration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Dieckmann , K. G. McClements , S. C. Chapman , R. O. Dendy , L. O'C. Drury

Diffusive shock acceleration in the environs of a remnant's expanding shell is a popular candidate for the origin of SNR gamma-rays. In this paper, results from our study of non-linear effects in shock acceleration theory and their impact…

We study the acceleration of electrons and protons interacting with localized, multiple, small-scale dissipation regions inside an evolving, turbulent active region. The dissipation regions are Unstable Current Sheets (UCS), and in their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Vlahos , H. Isliker , F. Lepreti

Electron injection at high Mach-number nonrelativistic perpendicular shocks is studied here for parameters that are applicable to young SNR shocks. Using high-resolution large-scale two-dimensional fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Yosuke Matsumoto , Takanobu Amano , Masahiro Hoshino

A supernova (SN) explosion drives stellar debris into the circumstellar material (CSM) filling a region on a scale of parsecs with X-ray emitting plasma. The velocities involved in supernova remnants (SNRs), thousands of km/s, can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Dewey

Cutoff energy in a synchrotron radiation spectrum of a supernova remnant (SNR) contains a key parameter of ongoing particle acceleration. We systematically analyze 11 young SNRs, including all historical SNRs, to measure the cutoff energy,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-18 Naomi Tsuji , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Dmitry Khangulyan , Felix Aharonian

Recent observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite have revealed bright gamma-ray emission from middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) inside our Galaxy. These remnants, which also possess bright non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiu-Hang Lee , Daniel J. Patnaude , John C. Raymond , Shigehiro Nagataki , Patrick O. Slane , Donald C. Ellison

We model strong forward shocks in young supernova remnants with efficient particle acceleration where a nonresonant instability driven by the cosmic ray current amplifies magnetic turbulence in the shock precursor. Particle injection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison

Supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 is well known for its bright TeV gamma-ray emission with shell-like morphology. To constrain the hydrodynamical evolution, we have performed six times observations of the northwestern (NW) shell with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Naomi Tsuji , Yasunobu Uchiyama

Molecular clouds are known to be clumpy, with dense molecular clumps occupying only a few percent of the volume. A supernova remnant then evolves primarily in the interclump medium, and becomes radiative at a radius of about 6 pc, forming a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roger A. Chevalier