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Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been assumed to be the source of cosmic rays (CRs) up to the "knee" of the CR spectrum at 10^15 eV, accelerating particles to relativistic energies in their blast waves by the process of diffusive shock…

The acceleration times of the highest-energy particles which emit gamma-rays in young and middle-age SNRs are comparable with SNR age. If the number of particles starting acceleration was varying during early times after the supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 O. Petruk , S. Orlando , M. Miceli , F. Bocchino

Cosmic-ray production in young supernova remnant (SNR) shocks is expected to be efficient and strongly nonlinear. In nonlinear, diffusive shock acceleration, compression ratios will be higher and the shocked temperature lower than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald C. Ellison

The spectra fits to a sample of 34 supernova remnants (Zeng et al., 2019) are updated. $\gamma$-ray spectra of 20 supernova remnants (SNRs) with a soft TeV spectrum are further analyzed. We found that 17 of them can be fitted in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-20 Houdun Zeng , Yuliang Xin , Qi Fu , Siming Liu

Evidences of non-thermal X-ray emission and TeV gamma-rays from the supernova remnants (SNRs) has strengthened the hypothesis that primary Galactic cosmic-ray electrons are accelerated in SNRs. High energy electrons lose energy via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kobayashi , Y. Komori , K. Yoshida , J. Nishimura

Data obtained in the ATIC-2 (Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter), CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass)) and PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) experiments suggest that elemental interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 V. S. Ptuskin , V. N. Zirakashvili , E. S. Seo

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

A gas cloud near a supernova remnant (SNR) provides a target for pp-collisions leading to subsequent gamma-ray emission through neutral pion decay. The assumption of a power-law ambient spectrum of accelerated particles with index near -2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond

The last ten years a number of observational advances have substantially increased our knowledge of shock phenomena in supernova remnants. This progress has mainly been made possible by the recent improvements in X-ray and Gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 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

Supernova remnants are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. In this paper, we explore how the non-thermal emission from young remnants can be used to probe the production of energetic particles at the shock (both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

Observations of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants (SNR) established them as sources of accelerated particles up to energies of 100 TeV. The dominant process - leptonic or hadronic - responsible for the VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-23 Stephanie Häffner , Ira Jung , Christian Stegmann

We present a simple phenomenological model of hadronic interaction between protons accelerated in an old supernova remnant (SNR) and cold protons situated within the associated molecular clouds (MCs). The accelerated protons from the old…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 Agnibha De Sarkar

Supernova explosions into predecessor stellar winds can lead to particle acceleration, which we suggest can explain most of the observed cosmic rays of the nuclei of Helium and heavier elements, from GeV in particle energies up to near $3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Peter L. Biermann

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are often considered as the main sites of acceleration of cosmic rays in our Galaxy, possibly up to the knee. However, their ability to accelerate particles to reach PeV energies is questionable and lacks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Iurii Sushch , Pasquale Blasi , Robert Brose

We compute the spectra of cosmic-ray (CR) nuclei and antinuclei under a scenario where hadronic interaction processes inside supernova remnants (SNRs) can produce a diffusively-shock-accelerated "source component" of secondary particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

MAGIC and H.E.S.S experiments are the first to produce images of supernova remnats (SNRs) in TeV gamma-rays. The gamma-radiation are produced either by electrons (due to inverse-Compton scatterings) or protons (due to pion decays). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-13 V. Beshley , O. Petruk

Diffusive shock acceleration by the shockwaves in supernova remnants (SNRs) is widely accepted as the dominant source for Galactic cosmic rays. However, it is unknown what determines the maximum energy of accelerated particles. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Yoshio Tsubone , Makoto Sawada , Aya Bamba , Satoru Katsuda , Jacco Vink

We discuss the acceleration and escape of secondary particles, especially positrons produced by hadronic interactions in a supernova remnant (SNR) shock. During the shock acceleration, protons would interact with ambient gas and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-01 Norita Kawanaka

Explicitly time-dependent, nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) has been used to investigate the properties of the very large SNR RX J0852.0-4622. The available observations do not clearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 E. G. Berezhko , G. Pühlhofer , H. J. Völk