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Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MMSNRs) are characterized by a shell-like morphology in the radio and centrally-peaked thermal emission in the X-ray band. The nature of this peculiar class of supernova remnants (SNRs) remains a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexandros Chiotellis , Emmanouil Zapartas , Dominique M. -A. Meyer

We report the discovery of optical emission from the non-radiative shocked ejecta of three young Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs): SNR 0519-69.0, SNR 0509-67.5, and N103B. Deep integral field spectroscopic observations reveal broad and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Parviz Ghavamian , J. Martin Laming , Frédéric P. A. Vogt

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) expand into a medium created by winds from the pre-SN progenitor. The SN explosion and resulting shock wave(s) heat up the surrounding plasma, giving rise to thermal X-ray emission, which depends on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Vandana Ramakrishnan , Vikram V. Dwarkadas

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are known to accelerate particles to relativistic energies, on account of their nonthermal emission. The observational progress from radio to gamma-ray observations reveals more and more morphological features that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Robert Brose , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch

We present a model of gamma-ray emission from core-collapse supernovae originating from the explosions of massive young stars. The fast forward shock of the supernova remnant (SNR) can accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov

Recent studies using 21 cm HI line and $^{13}$CO line observations in the inner part of the Galaxy have resulted in new distances for 30 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). 15 of those remnants have observed X-ray spectra, for which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 D. A. Leahy , S. Ranasinghe

The study of core-collapse supernova remnants (SNRs) presents a fascinating puzzle, with intricate morphologies and a non-uniform distribution of stellar debris. Particularly, young remnants (aged less than 5000 years) hold immense value as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Salvatore Orlando

Recent simulations have shown that asymmetries in the ejecta distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) may be a reflection of asymmetries left over from the initial supernova explosion. Thus, SNR studies provide a vital means for testing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Adrien Picquenot , Tyler Holland-Ashford , Brian J. Williams

Supernova remnants (SNRs) offer the means to study supernovae (SNe) long after the original explosion and can provide a unique insight into the mechanism that governs these energetic events. In this work, we examine the morphologies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Tyler Holland-Ashford , Laura A. Lopez , Katie Auchettl

Two types of supernova are thought to produce the overwhelming majority of neutron stars in the Universe. The first type, iron-core collapse supernovae, occurs when a high-mass star develops a degenerate iron core that exceeds the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Christian Knigge , Malcolm Coe , Philipp Podsiadlowski

Young Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are where we can observe closely the supernova (SN) ejecta and its interaction with circumstellar/interstellar medium. Therefore, they provide an opportunity to explore the explosion and the final…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-30 Bon-Chul Koo , Yong-Hyun Lee

The strong shocks in young supernova remnants (SNRs) should accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) and no doubt exists that \rel electrons are produced in SNRs. However, direct and convincing evidence that SNRs produce CR nuclei has not yet been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Donald C. Ellison , Gamil Cassam-Chenai

We probe the environmental properties of X-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) at various points along their evolutionary journey, especially the S-T phase, and their conformance with theoretically derived models of SNR evolution. The remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Chris Albert , Vikram V Dwarkadas

Aims: We present a detailed multi-wavelength study of four new supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The objects were identified as SNR candidates in X-ray observations performed during the survey of the LMC with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-14 P. Maggi , F. Haberl , P. J. Kavanagh , S. D. Points , J. Dickel , L. M. Bozzetto , M. Sasaki , Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , M. D. Filipovic , W. Pietsch

The unprecedented spatial and spectral resolutions of Chandra have revolutionized our view of the X-ray emission from supernova remnants. The excellent data sets accumulated on young, ejecta dominated objects like Cas A or Tycho present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Carles Badenes

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has $\sim$60 confirmed supernova remnants (SNRs). Because of the known distance, 50 kpc, the SNRs' angular sizes can be converted to linear sizes, and their X-ray observations can be used to assess X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Po-Sheng Ou , You-Hua Chu , Pierre Maggi , Chuan-Jui Li , Un Pang Chang , Robert A. Gruendl

Even at extragalactic distances, the shape of supernova ejecta can be effectively diagnosed by spectropolarimetry. We present here results for 17 Type Ia supernovae that allow a statistical study of the correlation among the geometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lifan Wang , Dietrich Baade , Ferdinando Patat

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are diffuse extended sources characterized by a complex morphology and a non-uniform distribution of ejecta. Such a morphology reflects pristine structures and features of the progenitor supernova (SN) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 S. Orlando , M. Miceli , O. Petruk

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…