English
Related papers

Related papers: Probing ISM Magnetic Fields With SNRs

200 papers

Observational evidence for the existence of cosmic magnetic fields in intergalactic space coherent over Mpc scales is presented. Using an unprecedentedly large sample of Faraday rotation measures of radio sources from the NRAO VLA Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 Jounghun Lee , Ue-Li Pen , A. Russell Taylor , Jeroen M. Stil , Caleb Sunstrum

The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , W. van Straten

It is not straightforward to determine the distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galaxy. The two main difficulties are that there are observational selection effects that mean that catalogues of SNRs are incomplete, and distances…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 D. A. Green

We construct the most complete sample of supernova remnants (SNRs) in any galaxy - the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) SNR sample. We study their various properties such as spectral index ($\alpha$), size and surface-brightness. We suggest an…

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

Supernovae (SNe) inject $\sim 10^{51}$ erg in the interstellar medium, thereby shocking and heating the gas. A substantial fraction of this energy is later lost via radiative cooling. We present a post-processing module for the FLASH code…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Ekaterina I. Makarenko , Stefanie Walch , Seamus D. Clarke , Daniel Seifried , Thorsten Naab , Pierre C. Nürnberger , Tim-Eric Rathjen

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered to be sites of Galactic cosmic ray (CR) acceleration. Vela is one of the nearest Galactic composite SNRs to Earth accompanied by the Vela pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) Vela X. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Iurii Sushch , Bohdan Hnatyk

In this work we investigate particle acceleration in supernova remnant shocks within a semi-analytical formalism which self-consistently accounts for particle acceleration, amplification of the magnetic field via streaming instability and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-25 Damiano Caprioli

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered as being the sources of galactic cosmic rays. In order to understand the origin, acceleration, and composition of these cosmic rays, detailed knowledge of the physical conditions in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-24 Sibylle Anderl , Antoine Gusdorf , Rolf Güsten

Supernova remnants (SNRs) represent a powerful laboratory to study the Cosmic-Ray acceleration processes at the shocks, and their relation to the properties of the circumstellar medium. With the aim of studying the high-frequency radio…

In the present work we have modeled the supernova remnant (SNR) G296.5+10, by means of 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. This remnant belongs to the bilateral SNR group and has an additional striking feature: the rotation measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-05 A. Moranchel-Basurto , P. F. Velázquez , E. Giacani , J. C. Toledo-Roy , E. M. Schneiter , F. De Colle , A. Esquivel

The large scale magnetic fields of our Galaxy have been mostly revealed by rotation measures ($RM$s) of pulsars and extragalactic radio sources. In the disk of our Galaxy, the average field strength over a few kpc scale is about 1.8 $\mu$G,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Han

This is a report on the findings of the SNR/cosmic-ray working group for the white paper on the status and future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. The white paper is an APS commissioned document, and the overall version has also been…

Particle acceleration to suprathermal energies in strong astrophysical shock waves is a widespread phenomenon, generally explained by diffusive shock acceleration. Such shocks can also amplify upstream magnetic field considerably beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Stephen P. Reynolds , Brian J. Williams , Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Knox S. Long

Observations of large supernova remnants (SNRs) at high frequencies are rare, but provide valuable information about their physical properties. The total intensity and polarization properties of 16 large SNRs in the Galactic plane were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 X. Y. Gao , J. L. Han , W. Reich , P. Reich , X. H. Sun , L. Xiao

Supernova remnant (SNR) detection along the Galactic plane poses a number of challenges. The SNR G309.8+00.0 lies exactly on the Galactic plane, with its center coinciding with galactic latitude (b)=0 deg. In this paper we report the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Miltiadis Michailidis , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo , Manami Sasaki , Werner Becker

Typing the origin (i.e., Type Ia or core-collapse) of supernova remnants (SNRs) is crucial to determine the rates of supernova (SN) explosions in a galaxy, which is a key to understand its recent chemical evolution. However, evolved SNRs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Yoko Takeuchi , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Toru Tamagawa

We present the review of various methods of detection of magnetic field strengths in the nearest regions of the active galaxy nuclei (AGN) which are the high energetic machines. Original spectropolarimetric method developed in the Pulkovo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. N. Gnedin , T. M. Natsvlishvili , M. Yu. Piotrovich

We estimate the number of old, radiative supernova remnants (SNRs) detectable in HI 21-cm emission line in the Galaxy. According to our result, the contamination due to the Galactic background HI emission limits the number of visible SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bon-Chul Koo , Ji-hyun Kang

We discuss the damping of strong magnetic turbulence downstream of the forward shock of young supernova remnants (SNR). We find that strong magnetic fields, that have been produced by the streaming instability in the upstream region of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Pohl , H. Yan , A. Lazarian