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The processes responsible for the broad-band radiation of the young supernova remnant Cas A are explored using a new code which is designed for a detailed treatment of the diffusive shock acceleration of particles in nonlinear regime. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 V. N. Zirakashvili , F. A. Aharonian , R. Yang , E. Ona-Wilhelmi , R. J. Tuffs

Nonthermal X-rays and very high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays have been detected from the supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946, and especially the recent observations with the \textit{Suzaku} satellite clearly reveal a spectral cutoff in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Fang , L. Zhang , J. F. Zhang , Y. Y. Tang , H. Yu

Supernova remnants are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. In this paper, we explore how the non-thermal emission from young remnants can be used to probe the production of energetic particles at the shock (both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

Supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 (also named as G347.3-0.5) has exhibited largest surface brightness, detailed spectral and shell-type morphology, it is one of the brightest TeV sources. The recent H.E.S.S. observation of RX J1713.7-3946…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-05 Yunyong Tang , Siming Liu

Context: Multiwavelength observations of supernova remnants can be explained within the framework of the diffusive shock acceleration theory, which allows effective conversion of the explosion energy into cosmic rays. Although the models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. O'C. Drury , F. A. Aharonian , D. Malyshev , S. Gabici

We have developed a simple model to investigate the modifications of the hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium ionization X-ray emission in young supernova remnants due to nonlinear particle acceleration. In nonlinear, diffusive shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Decourchelle , D. C. Ellison , J. Ballet

A new numerical model of the nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration is presented. It is used for modeling of particle acceleration in supernova remnants. The model contains coupled spherically symmetric hydrodynamic equations and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin

We present new models for the forward and reverse shock thermal X-ray emission from core-collapse and Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) which include the efficient production of cosmic rays via non-linear diffusive shock acceleration (DSA).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiu-Hang Lee , Daniel J. Patnaude , Donald C. Ellison , Shigehiro Nagataki , Patrick O. Slane

The cosmic-ray spectrum up to the knee ($E\sim 10^{15}$ eV) is attributed to acceleration processes taking place at the blastwaves which bound supernova remnants. Theoretical predictions give a similar estimate for the maximum energy which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric van der Swaluw , Abraham Achterberg , Yves A. Gallant

While the definitive detection of gamma-rays from known supernova remnants (SNRs) remains elusive, the collection of unidentified EGRET sources that may be associated with SNRs has motivated recent modelling of TeV emission from these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew G. Baring , Donald C. Ellison , Isabelle Grenier

Emission mechanisms of the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 are studied with multi-wavelength observational data from radio, X-ray, GeV $\gamma$-ray to TeV $\gamma$-ray band. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is employed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-28 Qiang Yuan , Siming Liu , Zhonghui Fan , Xiaojun Bi , Christopher L. Fryer

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

Shock waves associated with shell type supernova remnants are considered to be possible sites of cosmic ray acceleration. Since shocks are capable of accelerating electrons in addition to protons one anticipates both species to contribute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 A. Mastichiadis

We present a 3-dimensional model of supernova remnants (SNRs) where the hydrodynamical evolution of the remnant is modeled consistently with nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration occuring at the outer blast wave. The model includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiu-Hang Lee , Tsuneyoshi Kamae , Donald C. Ellison

In the leptonic scenario for TeV emission from a few well-observed shell-type TeV supernova remnants (STTSNRs), very weak magnetic fields are inferred. If fast-mode waves are produced efficiently in the shock downstream, we show that they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-02 Zhonghui Fan , Siming Liu , Christopher L. Fryer

The supernova paradigm for the origin of galactic cosmic rays can be tested using multifrequency observations of both non-thermal and thermal emission from supernova remnants. The smoking gun of hadronic acceleration in these sources can,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-05 G. Morlino , P. Blasi , E. Amato

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 be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. The detection of non-thermal emission from SNRs demonstrates the presence of energetic particles, but direct signatures of protons and other ions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

The recent X-ray and CO observations of RX J1713.7-3946 show that a significant fraction of the nonthermal X-ray emission of this unique supernova remnant associates, in one way or another, with a molecular cloud interacting with the west…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Uchiyama , F. A. Aharonian , T. Takahashi , J. S. Hiraga , Y. Moriguchi , Y. Fukui

We have extended a simple model of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration (Berezhko and Ellison 1999) to include the injection and acceleration of electrons and the production of photons from bremsstrahlung, synchrotron, inverse-Compton,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald C. Ellison , Evgeny G. Berezhko , Matthew G. Baring
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