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We study the problem of the escape and transport of Cosmic-Rays (CR) from a source embedded in a fully ionised, hot phase of the interstellar medium (HIM). In particular, we model the CR escape and their propagation in the source vicinity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 L. Nava , S. Recchia , S. Gabici , A. Marcowith , L. Brahimi , V. Ptuskin

Diffusive shock acceleration in the environs of a remnant's expanding shell is a popular candidate for the origin of SNR gamma-rays. In this paper, results from our study of non-linear effects in shock acceleration theory and their impact…

These notes present the fundamentals of Fermi acceleration at shocks, with a special attention to the role that supernova remnants have in producing Galactic cosmic rays. Then, the recent discoveries in the theory of diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-09 Damiano Caprioli

Using analytic methods and $1$-D two-fluid simulations, we study the effect of cosmic rays (CRs) on the dynamics of interstellar superbubbles (ISBs) driven by multiple supernovae (SNe)/stellar winds in OB associations. In addition to CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Siddhartha Gupta , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , David Eichler

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of large scale structure in the universe have shown that accretion shocks and merger shocks form due to flow motions associated with the gravitational collapse of nonlinear structures. Estimated speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones

The current paradigm of cosmic ray (CR) origin states that the most part of galactic CRs is produced by supernova remnants. The interaction of supernova ejecta with the interstellar medium after supernova's explosions results in shocks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Allard Jan van Marle , Artem Bohdan , Paul J. Morris , Martin Pohl , Alexandre Marcowith

The recent observations revealed that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton spectrum showed a complex structure: the hardening at $\rm \sim 200~GeV$ and softening at $\rm \sim 10~TeV$. However, so far the physical origins of this spectral feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang

The mechanism for acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova remnants (SNRs) is an outstanding question in the field. We model a sample of 32 axisymmetric SNRs using the quasi-perpendicular and quasi-parallel cosmic-ray-electron (CRE)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 J. L. West , S. Safi-Harb , G. Ferrand

The spectra of high-energy protons and nuclei accelerated by supernova remnant shocks are calculated taking into account magnetic field amplification and Alfvenic drift for different types of SNRs during their evolution. The overall energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-31 V. S. Ptuskin , E. S. Seo , V. N. Zirakashvili

Non-relativistic shocks accelerate ions to highly relativistic energies provided that the orientation of the magnetic field is closely aligned with the shock normal (quasi-parallel shock configuration). In contrast, quasi-perpendicular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Pais , C. Pfrommer , K. Ehlert , R. Pakmor

Cosmic-ray acceleration at non-relativistic shocks relies on scattering by turbulence that the cosmic rays drive upstream of the shock. We explore the rate of energy transfer from cosmic rays to non-resonant Bell modes and the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Martin Pohl

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Though this mechanism gives fairly robust predictions for the spectrum of particles accelerated at the shock, the spectrum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-25 Stefano Gabici

Cosmic rays are the most energetic particles arriving at earth. Although most of them are thought to be accelerated by supernova remnants, the details of the acceleration process and its efficiency are not well determined. Here we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-26 E. A. Helder , J. Vink , C. G. Bassa , A. Bamba , J. A. M. Bleeker , S. Funk , P. Ghavamian , K. J. van der Heyden , F. Verbunt , R. Yamazaki

If highly efficient, cosmic ray production can have a significant effect on the X-ray emission from SNRs as well as their dynamical evolution. Using hydrodynamical simulations including diffusive shock acceleration, we produce spectra for…

We have developed an inversion method for determination of the characteristics of the acceleration mechanism directly and non-parametrically from observations, in contrast to the usual forward fitting of parametric model variables to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vahé Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

Core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) produce fast shocks which pervade the dense circum-stellar medium (CSM) of the stellar progenitor. Cosmic rays (CRs) if accelerated at these shocks can induce the growth of electromagnetic fluctuations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Alexandre Marcowith , Vikram Dwarkadas , Matthieu Renaud , Vincent Tatischeff , Gwenael Giacinti

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

I investigate the shape of the electron cosmic ray spectrum in the range up to ~1000 keV, assuming that the acceleration process at the shock results in a power law in momentum, and that downstream of the shock the spectrum is affected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-30 Jacco Vink

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be one of the major acceleration sites of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) and an important class of objects for high-energy astrophysics. SNRs produce multi-wavelength, non-thermal emission via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

The idea that the shocks from supernova remnants (SNR) expanding into the interstellar medium (ISM) accelerate CR is still popular one but a number of authors have drawn attention to the fact that the experimental evidence for the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale