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Particle acceleration to suprathermal energies in strong astrophysical shock waves is a widespread phenomenon, generally explained by diffusive shock acceleration. Such shocks can also amplify upstream magnetic field considerably beyond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Stephen P. Reynolds , Brian J. Williams , Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Knox S. Long

The shock fronts of supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be significant sites of acceleration of cosmic ray particles. Previous researchers have shown that a particle distribution similar to a log-parabola can be generated when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua J. Ziegler , Justin D. Finke , J. Martin Laming

We have calculated the evolution of cosmic ray (CR) modified astrophysical shocks for a wide range of shock Mach numbers and shock speeds through numerical simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in 1D quasi- parallel plane…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Kang , T. W. Jones

The theoretical fundamentals of formation of the supernova remnant (SNR) continuum radio spectra are presented in this review. Mainly based on the Fermi 1 theory - also known as diffuse shock acceleration (DSA) - the different shapes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Dejan Urošević

A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants is employed to re-examine the nonthermal properties of the remnant of SN 1987A for an extended evolutionary period of 5--100 yr. It is shown that an efficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-18 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

Supernova explosions and their remnants (SNRs) drive important feedback mechanisms that impact considerably the galaxies that host them. Then, the knowledge of the SNRs evolution is of paramount importance in the understanding of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Santiago Jimenez , Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle , Sergiy Silich

We give a brief review of the origin and acceleration of cosmic rays (CRs), emphasizing the production of CRs at different stages of supernova evolution by the first-order Fermi shock acceleration mechanism. We suggest that supernovae with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 A. M. Bykov , D. C. Ellison , A. Marcowith , S. M. Osipov

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

The present article investigates magnetic amplification in the upstream medium of SNR blast wave through both resonant and non-resonant regimes of the streaming instability. It aims at a better understanding of the diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Marcowith , F. Casse

(Abridged) We are conducting a survey of Galactic shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) known or suspected to possess non-thermal components to their X-ray emission using new and archived observations made with such X-ray satellites as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas G. Pannuti , Glenn E. Allen

Recent results obtained with gamma-ray satellites have established supernova remnants as accelerators of GeV hadronic cosmic rays. In such processes, CRs accelerated in SNR shocks interact with particles from gas clouds in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-14 Emma de Ona Wilhelmi , Iurii Sushch , Robert Brose , Enrique Mestre , Yang Su , Roberta Zanin

The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. Tomassetti , F. Donato

The shock waves of supernova remnants (SNRs) are prominent candidates for the acceleration of the Galactic cosmic rays. SNR RX J1713.7$-$3946 is one well-studied particle accelerator in our Galaxy because of its strong non-thermal X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Naomi Tsuji , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Felix Aharonian , David Berge , Ryota Higurashi , Roman Krivonos , Takaaki Tanaka

Galactic cosmic rays up to energies of around 10^15 eV are assumed to originate in supernova remnants (SNRs). The shock wave of a young SNR like SN 1006 AD can accelerate electrons to energies greater than 1 TeV, where they can produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. Dyer , S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski

We derive the rates of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) over a wide range of redshifts using a complete sample from the IfA Deep Survey. This sample of more than 100 SNIa is the largest set ever collected from a single survey, and therefore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian J. Barris , John L. Tonry

In evolved supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds, such as IC 443, W44, and 3C391, a highly inhomogeneous structure consisting of a forward shock of moderate Mach number, a cooling layer, a dense radiative shell and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. M. Bykov , R. A. Chevalier , D. C. Ellison , Yu. A. Uvarov

The diffuse cosmic supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is observational target of the gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector and the forthcoming JUNO and Hyper-Kamiokande detectors. Current predictions are hampered by our still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Daniel Kresse , Thomas Ertl , Hans-Thomas Janka

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The strong SNR shocks provide ideal acceleration sites for particles of at least 10^14 eV/nucleon. Radio continuum studies of SNRs carried out with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 G. Dubner

The present paper deals with calculations based on a standard model of cosmic ray acceleration in Supernova remnants (SNR) and on the latest astronomical data concerning the variety in Supernovae types, energies as well as the sites of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lyubov G. Sveshnikova

Very recent gamma-ray observations of G120.1+1.4 (Tycho's) supernova remnant (SNR) by Fermi-LAT and VERITAS provided new fundamental pieces of information for understanding particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in SNRs. We want to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Morlino , D. Caprioli