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Shock acceleration by the shells of supernova remnants (SNRs) has been hypothesized to be the mechanism that produces the bulk of Galactic Cosmic Rays, possibly up to PeV energies. Some SNRs have been shown to accelerate cosmic rays to TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Henrike Fleischhack , the HAWC collaboration , the Fermi-LAT collaboration

Using observations carried out with the GMRT, we performed high-quality full-synthesis imaging at 610 MHz of the source G29.37+0.1, which is an as-yet-unclassified object linked to the TeV source HESS J1844-030. These data, combined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 G. Castelletti , L. Supan , A. Petriella , E. Giacani , B. C. Joshi

It is difficult to distinguish hadronic process from the leptonic one in $\gamma$-ray observation, which is however crucial in revealing the origin of cosmic rays. As an endeavor in the regard, we focus in this work on the complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen , Fa-xiang Zheng , Qian-cheng Liu , Ping Zhou , Bing Liu

We present the results of our investigation of the multiwavelength data on HESS J1303-631, an unidentified TeV source serendipitously discovered in the Galactic plane by the HESS collaboration. These results strongly suggest the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 A. Atoyan , J. Buckley , H. Krawczynski

We present high-resolution X-ray images taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the field that contains the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1804-216. A total of eleven discrete sources were detected with a posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Cui , Alexander Konopelko

The Vela supernova remnant (SNR), G263.9-3.3, and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN), Vela X, is one of the closest such systems, and it has been studied using observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. SNRs are known sources of gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Miguel Araya , Santiago Ramírez , Diego Bueso , Braulio J. Solano-Rojas

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered to be accelerators of cosmic rays (CR). They are also expected to produce very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) gamma rays through interactions of high-energy particles with the surrounding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Iurii Sushch , Ryan C. G. Chaves , Manuel Paz Arribas , Francesca Volpe , Nukri Komin , Matthias Kerschhaggl

We analyze the GeV gamma-ray emission data from the vicinity of the supernova remnant (SNR) HB9 (G160.9+2.6) from the \textit{Fermi}-LAT 12-year observations to quantify the evolution of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in the SNR. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Tomohiko Oka , Wataru Ishizaki

We investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) towards seven TeV gamma-ray sources thought to be pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) using Mopra molecular line observations at 7mm [CS(1-0), SiO(1-0,v=0)], Nanten CO(1-0) data and the SGPS/GASS HI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 F. J. Voisin , G. P. Rowell , M. G. Burton , Y. Fukui , H. Sano , F. Aharonian , N. Maxted , C. Braiding , R. Blackwell , J. Lau

We have observed the Galactic supernova remnant G16.7+0.1 for 13 ks using the EPIC cameras aboard the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory, producing the first detection of the SNR outside of the radio band. G16.7+0.1 is one of the faintest radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcel A. Agueros , David J. Helfand , Eric V. Gotthelf

We identify two candidate magnetars in archival X-ray observations of HESS detected shell-type SNRs. X-ray point sources in CTB 37B coincident with HESS J1713-381 and in G353.6-0.7 coincident with HESS J1731-347 both have AXP-like spectra,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. P. Halpern , E. V. Gotthelf

A new faint and large shell-type radio Supernova Remnant (SNR) G108.2-0.6 has been discovered in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The SNR shows an elliptical shell-type structure at 1420 MHz, and has a 408-1420 MHz TT-plot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. W. Tian , D. A. Leahy , T. J. Foster

The investigation of VHE gamma-ray sources by any methods, including mirror Cherenkov telescopes, touches on the problem of the cosmic ray origin and, accordingly, the role of the Galaxy in their generation. The SHALON observations have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-05 Vera G. Sinitsyna , Vera Y. Sinitsyna

The first remnants detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were of the type of mixed-morphology supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds. In this paper we are presenting preliminary results of the gamma-ray analysis of 4…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-16 Tülün Ergin , E. Nihal Ercan

We present evidence supporting a SNR origin for the radio source G337.2+0.1, which was discovered along the line of sight to the Norma spiral arm in the MOST 843-MHz radio survey. The radio source is spatially superposed to the unidentified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Combi , P. Benaglia , G. E. Romero , M. Sugizaki

We report the first detection of optical emission from the shell-type Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G108.2$-$0.6. We obtained H$\alpha$ images and long-slit spectra using the 1.5-m RTT150 telescope to examine the morphological and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 Gunay Payli , Hicran Bakis , Ebru Aktekin , Hidetoshi Sano , Aytap Sezer

(Aims.) SNR RX J1713.7-3946 is perhaps one of the best observed shell-type supernova remnants with emissions dominated by energetic particles accelerated near the shock front. The nature of the TeV emission, however, is an issue still open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhonghui Fan , Siming Liu , Qiang Yuan , Lyndsay Fletcher

We report our independent GeV gamma-ray study of the young shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) Kes 73 which harbors a central magnetar, and CO-line millimeter observations toward the SNR. Using 7.6 years of Fermi-LAT observation data, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-12 Bing Liu , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Qian-Cheng Liu , Ting-Lan He , Xin Zhou , Ping Zhou , Yang Su

The source HESS J1813-178 was detected in the survey of the inner Galaxy in TeV gamma-rays, and a SNR G12.8-0.0 was identified in the radio band to be associated with it. The PWN embedded in the SNR is powered by an energetic pulsar PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Jun Fang , Li Zhang

Aims: We present a detailed X-ray and radio wavelength study of G308.4-1.4, a candidate supernova remnant (SNR) in the ROSAT All Sky Survey and the MOST supernova remnant catalogue, in order to identify it as a SNR. Methods: The SNR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Tobias Prinz , Werner Becker