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It has long been speculated that supernova remnants represent a major source of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. Observations over the past decade have ceremoniously unveiled direct evidence of particle acceleration in SNRs to energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Patrick Slane

The contribution of galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) to the origin of cosmic rays (CRs) is an important open question in modern astrophysics. Broadband non-thermal emission is a useful proxy for probing the energy budget and production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Ryosuke Kobashi , Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants is the most widely invoked paradigm to explain the Galactic cosmic ray spectrum. Cosmic rays escaping supernova remnants diffuse in the interstellar medium and collide with the ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Casanova , D. I. Jones , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Fukui , S. Gabici , A. Kawamura , T. Onishi , G. Rowell , H. Sano , K. Torii , H. Yamamoto

Cygnus X-1 is a well observed microquasar. Broadband observations at all wavelengths have been collected over the years. The origin of the MeV tail observed with COMPTEL and INTEGRAL is still under debate and it has mostly been attributed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Carolina Pepe , Gabriela S. Vila , Gustavo E. Romero

Supernova remnants are known to accelerate cosmic rays on account of their non-thermal emission of radio waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. Although there are many models for the acceleration of cosmic rays in Supernova remnants, the escape of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Robert Brose , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch , Oleh Petruk , Taras Kuzyo

We present a survey of the X-ray emitting ejecta in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant based on an extensive analysis of over 6000 spectral regions extracted on 2.5-10" angular scales using the Chandra 1 Ms observation. We interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Una Hwang , J. Martin Laming

We report the detection of carbon monoxide (CO) emission from the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) at wavelengths corresponding to the fundamental vibrational mode at 4.65 micron. We obtained AKARI Infrared Camera spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeonghee Rho , Takashi Onaka , Jan Cami , William Reach

The properties of the Galactic supernova remnant SN 1006 are theoretically reanalysed. Nonlinear kinetic theory is used to determine the acceleration efficiency of cosmic rays (CRs) in the supernova remnant SN 1006. The known range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-22 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

Supernova remnants (SNRs) provide crucial information of yet poorly understood mechanism of supernova explosion. Here we present XRISM high-resolution spectroscopy of the intermediate-mass-element (IME) ejecta in the SNR Cas A to determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Shunsuke Suzuki , Haruto Sonoda , Yusuke Sakai , Yuken Ohshiro , Shinya Yamada , Manan Agarwal , Satoru Katsuda , Hiroya Yamaguchi

Massive hot stars produce dense ultraviolet (UV) photon fields in their surroundings. If a very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitter is located close to the star, then gamma-rays are absorbed in the stellar photon field, creating secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Bosch-Ramon , D. Khangulyan , F. A. Aharonian

If supernova remnants (SNRs) are the sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, the associated nuclear interactions should result in observable fluxes of TeV gamma-rays from the nearest SNRs. Measurements of the gamma-ray flux from six nearby,…

We develop a theory to account for the cosmic ray spectrum between 1 GeV and 10^4 GeV following the earlier papers of this series. We use the basic concept that the cosmic ray particles are accelerated in a supernova shock that travels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Richard G. Strom

The Vela supernova remnant (SNR) is a complex region containing a number of sources of non-thermal radiation. The inner section of this SNR, within 2 degrees of the pulsar PSR B0833-45, has been observed by the H.E.S.S. gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Aharonian et al.

The AMS-02 has measured the cosmic ray electron (plus positron) spectrum up to ~TeV with an unprecedent precision. The spectrum can be well described by a power law without any obvious features above 10 GeV. The satellite instrument Dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Kun Fang , Bing-Bing Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

We present the decadal brightening of non-thermal emission flux in the northeastern filament of the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), which highlights dynamic processes in the forward shock. This filament, characterized by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Nao Kominato , Toshiki Sato , Yusuke Sakai , Ryota Hayakawa , Shinya Yamada

We report the likely GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from the composite supernova remnant (SNR) COMP G327.1+1.1 by analyzing $\sim$12.2 years of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) Pass 8 data. We found the features of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Yunchuan Xiang , Yi Xing , Zejun Jiang

The mass-loss rates from single massive stars are high enough to form radio photospheres at large distances from the stellar surface where the wind is optically thick to (thermal) free-free opacity. Here we calculate the far-infrared,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Christiana Erba , Richard Ignace

Energetic gamma rays (GeV to TeV photon energy) have been detected toward several supernova remnants (SNR) that are associated with molecular clouds. If the gamma rays are produced mainly by hadronic processes rather than leptonic processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Schuppan , J. Becker Tjus , J. H. Black , S. Casanova , M. Mandelartz

Genuine spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the central few parsec of the nearest and brightest active galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere are presented. They are compiled from very high spatial resolution observations in the radio…