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Supernova remnants (SNRs) exert strong influence on the physics and chemistry of the nearby molecular clouds (MCs) through shock waves and the cosmic rays (CRs) they accelerate. To investigate the SNR-cloud interaction in the prototype…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-21 Tian-Yu Tu , Yang Chen , Ping Zhou , Samar Safi-Harb

Distances are found for four supernova remnants without previous distance measurements. H I spectra and H I channel maps are used to determine the maximum velocity of H I absorption for the four supernova remnants (SNRs). We examined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-28 S. Ranasinghe , D. A. Leahy , Wenwu Tian

We present a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray emission from the middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) S147 (G180.0$-$1.7) using approximately 16.5 years of Fermi-LAT data. Spatially, a new extended $\gamma$-ray component distinct from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Huan Yang , Bing Liu , Houdun Zeng , Xiaoyuan Huang

G15.9+0.2 is a Galactic shell-type supernova remnant (SNR), which was detected in radio and has been confirmed in X-rays based on Chandra observations. An X-ray point source CXOUJ181852.0-150213 has been detected and suggested to be an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Manami Sasaki , Minja M. Maäkelaä , Dmitry Klochkov , Andrea Santangelo , Valery Suleimanov

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The strong SNR shocks provide ideal acceleration sites for particles of at least 10^14 eV/nucleon. Radio continuum studies of SNRs carried out with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 G. Dubner

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 provide a new distance estimate to the supernova remnant (SNR) Kes 73 and its associated anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 1E 1841-045. 21 cm HI images and HI absorption/ emission spectra from new VLA observations, and 13CO emission spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-15 Wenwu Tian , Denis A. Leahy

We present a comprehensive view of the W51B HII region complex and the W51C supernova remnant (SNR) using new radio observations from the VLA, VLBA, MERLIN, JCMT, and CSO along with archival data from Spitzer, ROSAT, ASCA, and Chandra. Our…

Supernova remnant Kes 17 (SNR G304.6+0.1) is one of a few but growing number of remnants detected across the electromagnetic spectrum. In this paper, we analyze recent radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of this object, determining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-28 Joseph D. Gelfand , Daniel Castro , Patrick O. Slane , Tea Temim , John P. Hughes , Cara Rakowski

Observations of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants (SNR) established them as sources of accelerated particles up to energies of 100 TeV. The dominant process - leptonic or hadronic - responsible for the VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-23 Stephanie Häffner , Ira Jung , Christian Stegmann

The shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 86, possibly associated with the historical supernova SN 185, with its relatively large size (about 40' in diameter) and the presence of non-thermal X-rays is a promising target for gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

The Kepler supernova remnant (SNR) is the only historic supernova remnant lacking a detection at GeV and TeV energies which probe particle acceleration. A recent analysis of Fermi-LAT data reported a likely GeV gamma-ray candidate in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Fabio Acero , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Jean Ballet

During an [O III] survey for planetary nebulae, we identified a region in Sagittarius containing several candidate Supernova Remnants and obtained deep optical narrow-band images and spectra to explore their nature. The images of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-06 J. Alikakos , P. Boumis , P. E. Christopoulou , C. D. Goudis

The Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) IC443 is one of the most studied core-collapse SNRs for its interaction with molecular clouds. However, the ambient molecular clouds with which IC443 is interacting have not been thoroughly studied and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Jae-Joon Lee , Bon-Chul Koo , Ronald L. Snell , Min S. Yun , Mark H. Heyer , Michael G. Burton

The middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) N49B in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been observed with the {\it Chandra X-Ray Observatory}. The superb angular resolution of {\it Chandra} resolves the complex structure of X-ray emitting filaments…

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) hosts a rich and varied population of supernova remnants (SNRs). Optical, X-ray, and radio observations are required to identify these SNRs, as well as to ascertain the various processes responsible for the…

We report the results of our investigation on the possible existence of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearby galaxy, NGC 1569, using the CCD imaging and spectroscopic observations from the RTT150 telescope of TUG-TUBITAK in Antalya,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-10 E. Nihal Ercan , Ebru Aktekin , Nergis Cesur , Ayşegül Tümer

We search for fast-expanding Hi shells associated with Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) in the longitude range l \approx 32\arcdeg to 77\arcdeg using 21-cm line data from the Inner-Galaxy Arecibo L-band Feed Array (I-GALFA) Hi survey.…

More than 90% of the known Milky Way supernova remnants are within 5 degrees of the Galactic Plane. We present the discovery of the supernova remnant G181.1+9.5, a new high-latitude SNR, serendipitously discovered in an ongoing survey of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 R. Kothes , P. Reich , T. J. Foster , W. Reich

We reanalyze the Fermi-LAT GeV $\gamma$-ray emission in the region of supernova remnant (SNR) G51.26+0.11 and investigate its interstellar molecular environment with the CO-line data. At GeV energies, based on 13.2 years of Fermi-LAT data,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Wen-Juan Zhong , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen , Qian-Qian Zhang