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We explore nonlinear effects of wave-particle interactions on the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) process in Type Ia-like, SNR blast waves, by implementing phenomenological models for magnetic field amplification, Alfv'enic drift, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , Paul P. Edmon

A rapidly growing amount of evidences, mostly coming from the recent gamma-ray observations of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs), is seriously challenging our understanding of how particles are accelerated at fast shocks. The cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Damiano Caprioli

The escape process of particles accelerated at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks is one of the poorly understood aspects of the shock acceleration theory. Here we adopt a phenomenological approach to study the particle escape and its impact on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Silvia Celli , Giovanni Morlino , Stefano Gabici , Felix Aharonian

The spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs) is affected by their escape from an acceleration site. This may have been observed not only in the gamma-ray spectrum of young supernova remnants (SNRs) such as RX J1713.7-3946, but also in the spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yutaka Ohira , Kohta Murase , Ryo Yamazaki

The spectra of high-energy protons and nuclei accelerated by supernova remnant shocks are calculated taking into account magnetic field amplification and Alfvenic drift both upstream and downstream of the shock for different types of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. S. Ptuskin , V. N. Zirakashvili , E. S. Seo

We discuss the acceleration and escape of secondary cosmic-ray (CR) nuclei, such as lithium, beryllium and boron, produced by spallation of primary CR nuclei like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen accelerated at the shock in supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Norita Kawanaka , Shiu-Hang Lee

One of the most essential but uncertain processes for producing cosmic-rays (CRs) and their spectra is how accelerated particles escape into the interstellar space. We propose that the CR electron spectra at >~TeV energy can provide a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Norita Kawanaka , Kunihito Ioka , Yutaka Ohira , Kazumi Kashiyama

Recent advances on gamma-ray observations from SuperNova Remnants and Molecular Clouds offer the possibility to study in detail the properties of the propagation of escaping Cosmic Rays (CR). However, a complete theory for CR transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir Ptuskin

Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we show that the efficiency of cosmic-ray (CR) production at supernova remnants (SNRs) is over-predicted if it could be estimated based on proper motion measurements of H$\alpha$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiro Shimoda , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki , Aya Bamba , Jacco Vink

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

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

We analyse the results of recent measurements of nonthermal emission from individual supernova remnants (SNRs) and their correspondence to the nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs. It is shown that the theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. G. Berezhko

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

We investigate escape of cosmic ray (CR) electrons from a supernova remnant (SNR) to interstellar space. We show that CR electrons escape in order from high energies to low energies like CR nuclei, while the escape starts later than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki , Norita Kawanaka , Kunihito Ioka

We explore how wave-particle interactions affect diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at astrophysical shocks by performing time-dependent kinetic simulations, in which phenomenological models for magnetic field amplification (MFA), Alfvenic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Hyesung Kang

Galactic cosmic ray (CR) acceleration to the knee in the spectrum at a few PeV is only possible if the magnetic field ahead of a supernova remnant (SNR) shock is strongly amplified by CR escaping the SNR. A model formulated in terms of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 AR Bell , KM Schure , B Reville , G Giacinti

We investigate the damping of Alfv\'en waves generated by the cosmic ray resonant streaming instability in the context of the cosmic ray escape and propagation in the proximity of supernova remnants. We consider ion-neutral damping,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 S. Recchia , D. Galli , L. Nava , M. Padovani , S. Gabici , A. Marcowith , V. Ptuskin , G. Morlino

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

According to the most popular model for the origin of cosmic rays (CRs), supernova remnants (SNRs) are the site where CRs are accelerated. Observations across the electromagnetic spectrum support this picture through the detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 S. Orlando , M. Miceli , S. Ustamujic , A. Tutone , E. Greco , O. Petruk , F. Bocchino , G. Peres

We investigate the theoretical and observational implications of the acceleration of protons and heavier nuclei in supernova remnants (SNRs). By adopting a semi-analytical technique, we study the non-linear interplay among particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Caprioli , P. Blasi , E. Amato