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When applied to the blast wave formed by the explosion of a massive star as a supernova (SN), the theory of diffusive particle acceleration at shock fronts predicts a very high energy density in cosmic rays. Almost immediately after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , Lewis Ball

Context: Cosmic rays are thought to be accelerated at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks, but conclusive evidence is lacking. Aims: New data from ground-based gamma-ray telescopes and the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 C. D. Dermer , G. Powale

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

Our purpose is to evaluate the rate of the maximum energy and the acceleration rate that cosmic rays acquire in the non-relativistic diffusive shock acceleration as it could apply during their lifetime in various astrophysical sites, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Meli , P. L. Biermann

The ratio of the fluxes of secondary and primary nuclei in cosmic rays has long been used as an indicator of the grammage traversed in the journey of cosmic ray particles throughout the Galaxy. The basic idea is that primary particles are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Pasquale Blasi

We consider a magnetized neutron star with accretion from a companion star or a gas cloud around it, as a possible source of gamma rays with energy between $100$ $MeV$ and $10^{14}-10^{16}~eV$. The flow of the accreting plasma is terminated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Blasi

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the primary sources of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs). In the last few years, the wealth of gamma-ray data collected by GeV and TeV instruments has provided important information about particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-02 Martina Cardillo , Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

Our statistics on Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) shows that the electrons temperature ($T$) of hard X-ray and the shock waves traveling velocity ($\upsilon$) decreases with ages ($t$) for all-sort remnants. However, the shock waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-18 Jian-Wen Xu , Ya-Peng Hu

Recent high energy gamma-ray observations of both single supernova remnants and superbubbles, together with observations of supernovae, star formation regions, and local cosmic ray composition, now provide an integrated framework tying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard E. Lingenfelter

Recent cosmic-ray measurements have found an anomaly in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at GeV-TeV energies. Although the origin of the anomaly is not clearly understood, suggested explanations include effect of cosmic-ray source spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Satyendra Thoudam , Jörg R. Hörandel

The origin of cosmic rays is a pivotal open issue of high-energy astrophysics. Supernova remnants are strong candidates to be the Galactic factory of cosmic rays, their blast waves being powerful particle accelerators. However, supernova…

The origin of Galactic cosmic rays (with energies up to 10^15 eV) remains unclear, though it is widely believed that they originate in the shock waves of expanding supernova remnants. Currently the best way to investigate their acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. A. Aharonian

Recent observations of the supernova remnant W44 by the \emph{Fermi} spacecraft observatory strongly support the idea that the bulk of galactic cosmic rays is accelerated in such remnants by a Fermi mechanism, also known as diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-04 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , R. Z. Sagdeev

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) constitute a significant part of the energy budget of our Galaxy, and the study of their accelerators is of high importance in modern astrophysics. Their main sources are likely supernova remnants (SNRs). These…

Supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds are ideal laboratories to study the acceleration of particles at shock waves and their transport and interactions in the surrounding interstellar medium. In this paper, we focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 V. H. M. Phan , S. Gabici , G. Morlino , R. Terrier , J. Vink , J. Krause , M. Menu

We extend the self-similar solution derived by Chevalier for a Sedov blast wave accelerating cosmic rays (CR) to show that the Galactic CR population can be divided into: (A) CR with energies above ~200GeV released upstream during CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. R. Bell

We investigate the escape process from a perpendicular shock region of a spherical shock in the interstellar medium (ISM). The diffusive shock acceleration in the perpendicular shock of supernova remnants (SNRs) has been expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Shoma F. Kamijima , Yutaka Ohira

It has been suggested that relativistic shocks in extragalactic sources may accelerate the highest energy cosmic rays. The maximum energy to which cosmic rays can be accelerated depends on the structure of magnetic turbulence near the shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Anabella T. Araudo , Anthony R. Bell , Aidan Crilly , Katherine M. Blundell

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). SNR shocks accelerate CR protons and electrons which reveal key insights into the non-thermal physics by means of their synchrotron and $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Georg Winner , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Maria Werhahn , Matteo Pais

We present the energy spectrum of antiproton cosmic ray (CR) component calculated on the basis of the nonlinear kinetic model of CR production in supernova remnants (SNR). The model includes reacceleration of already existing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-13 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov