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We present calculations of expected continuum emissions from Sedov-Taylor phase Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs), using the energy spectra of cosmic ray (CR) electrons and protons from nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration (DSA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Paul P. Edmon , Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , Renyi Ma

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is considered one of the prime mechanisms for Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) acceleration. It is still unclear, however, whether SNRs can contribute to GCR spectrum up to the ``knee''…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-06 Victor Doroshenko , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo

Context. Galactic cosmic rays are widely assumed to arise from diffusive shock acceleration, specifically at shocks in supernova remnants (SNRs). These shocks expand in a complex environment, particularly in the core-collapse scenario as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Samata Das , Robert Brose , Dominique M. -A. Meyer , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch , Pavlo Plotko

The origin of the bulk of cosmic rays (CRs) observed at Earth is the topic of a century long investigation, paved with successes and failures. From the energetic point of view, supernova remnants (SNRs) remain the most plausible sources of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-09 Pasquale Blasi

We aim to elucidate cosmic ray (CR) propagation in the weakly ionized environments of supernova remnants (SNRs) basing our analysis on the cosmic ray cloud (CRC) model developed by \citet{2013ApJ...768...73M} and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 L. Brahimi , A. Marcowith , V. S. Ptuskin

The instability in the cosmic-ray precursor of a supernova shock moving in interstellar medium is studied. The level of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in this region determines the maximum energy of particles accelerated by the diffusive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 V. S. Ptuskin , V. N. Zirakashvili

We investigate the role played by initial clumping of ejecta and by efficient acceleration of cosmic rays (CRs) in determining the density structure of the post-shock region of a Type Ia supernova remnant (SNR) through detailed 3D MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Orlando , F. Bocchino , M. Miceli , O. Petruk , M. L. Pumo

Supernova remnants are known to accelerate cosmic-rays from the detection of non-thermal emission in radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays. However, the ability to accelerate cosmic-rays up to PeV energies has yet to be demonstrated. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Robert Brose , Iurii Sushch , Jonathan Mackey

Supernova remnants are believed to be the main sources of galactic Cosmic Rays (CR). Within this framework, particles are accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and then released in the interstellar medium. The mechanism through which CRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-19 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir S. Ptuskin

We present a library of numerical models of cosmic-ray accelerating supernova remnants (SNRs) evolving through a homogeneous ambient medium. We analyse distributions of the different energy components and diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Kosenko , G. Ferrand , A. Decourchelle

The present article investigates magnetic amplification in the upstream medium of SNR blast wave through both resonant and non-resonant regimes of the streaming instability. It aims at a better understanding of the diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Marcowith , F. Casse

The nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is used to describe the properties of the remnant of SN 1006. It is shown, that the theory fits the existing data in a satisfactory way within a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

Recent gamma-ray observations of middle-aged supernova remnants revealed a mysterious broken power-law spectrum. Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we show that the interaction between a supernova blast wave and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

(Abridged) We are conducting a survey of Galactic shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) known or suspected to possess non-thermal components to their X-ray emission using new and archived observations made with such X-ray satellites as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas G. Pannuti , Glenn E. Allen

It is shown that the nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) fits the shell-type nonthermal X-ray morphology, obtained in Chandra observations, in a satisfactory way. The set of empirical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

Young supernova remnants are thought to be the sites where cosmic ray acceleration occurs by the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration. The maximum energy gained in this process is conventionally extimated to have a value close to, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. O'C. Drury , E. van der Swaluw , O. Carroll

The time-dependent nonlinear kinetic theory for cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is applied studying the properties of the synchrotron emission from SNRs, in particular, the surface brightness-diameter ($\Sigma-D$)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Völk

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks. In the hadronic scenario the TeV gamma-ray emission from SNRs originates from decaying pions that are produced in collisions of the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Matteo Pais , Christoph Pfrommer , Kristian Ehlert , Maria Werhahn , Georg Winner

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely believed to be the principal source of galactic cosmic rays. Such energetic particles can produce gamma-rays and lower energy photons via interactions with the ambient plasma. In this paper, we present…

The evolution of the radio emission of shell-type Supernova remnants (SNRs) is modeled within the framework of the simple and commonly used assumptions that the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) is responsible for generating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Abdul Asvarov
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