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Diffusive shock acceleration is invoked to explain non-thermal particle acceleration in Supernova Remnants, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Jets, Gamma ray Bursts (GRBs) and various large scale cosmic structures. The importance of achieving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-28 A. Meli , J. K. Becker , J. J Quenby

Fermi bubbles are giant gamma-ray structures extended north and south of the Galactic center with characteristic sizes of order of 10 kpc recently discovered by Fermi Large Area Telescope. Good correlation between radio and gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 D. O. Chernyshov , K. S. Cheng , V. A. Dogiel , C. M. Ko

We compare the $\gamma$-ray spectra from 10 middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs), which are interacting with molecular clouds (MCs), with the model prediction from widely used escaping scenario and direct interaction scenario. It is found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Xiaping Tang

We report observation of the supernova remnant IC443 (G189.1+3.0) with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the energy band between 200MeV and 50GeV. IC443 is a shell-type supernova remnant with mixed morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Abdo

The nature of the recently detected HE and VHE gamma-ray emission of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) is studied. A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is employed to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-13 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

The Fermi-LAT data accumulated over 7 years of {\gamma}-ray observations, together with the high resolution gas (CO & HI) and the dust opacity maps, are used to study the emissivity of {\gamma}-rays induced by interactions of cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian , Carmelo Evoli

A number of supernova remnants (SNRs) show nonthermal X-rays assumed to be synchrotron emission from shock accelerated TeV electrons. The existence of these TeV electrons strongly suggests that the shocks in SNRs are sources of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald C. Ellison , Anne Decourchelle , Jean Ballet

We investigate the nature of the accelerated particles responsible for the production of the gamma-ray emission observed from the middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) HB 21. The analysis of more than nine years of Fermi LAT data leads to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-19 L. Ambrogi , R. Zanin , S. Casanova , E. De Ona Wilhelmi , G. Peron , F. Aharonian

We aim to test the plausibility of a theoretical framework in which the gamma-ray emission detected from supernova remnants may be of hadronic origin, i.e., due to the decay of neutral pions produced in nuclear collisions involving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Damiano Caprioli

Star-forming and starburst galaxies are considered as one of the viable candidate sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrino background detected in IceCube. We revisit contributions of supernova remnants (SNRs) and hypernova remnants (HNRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 Di Xiao , Peter Mészáros , Kohta Murase , Zi-gao Dai

The presence of relativistic electrons within the diffuse gas phase of galaxy clusters is now well established, but their detailed origin remains unclear. Cosmic ray protons are also expected to accumulate during the formation of clusters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 R. Adam , H. Goksu , S. Brown , L. Rudnick , C. Ferrari

Supernova remnant (SNR) detection along the Galactic plane poses a number of challenges. The SNR G309.8+00.0 lies exactly on the Galactic plane, with its center coinciding with galactic latitude (b)=0 deg. In this paper we report the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Miltiadis Michailidis , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo , Manami Sasaki , Werner Becker

Supernova remnants (SNR) are now widely believed to be a source of cosmic rays (CRs) up to an energy of 1 PeV. The magnetic fields required to accelerate CRs to sufficiently high energies need to be much higher than can result from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 K. M. Schure , J. Vink , A. Achterberg , R. Keppens

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Though this mechanism gives fairly robust predictions for the spectrum of particles accelerated at the shock, the spectrum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-25 Stefano Gabici

The nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is used to describe the properties of the remnant of SN 1006. It is shown, that the theory fits the existing data in a satisfactory way within a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , H. J. Voelk

The supernova paradigm for the origin of galactic cosmic rays can be tested using multifrequency observations of both non-thermal and thermal emission from supernova remnants. The smoking gun of hadronic acceleration in these sources can,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-05 G. Morlino , P. Blasi , E. Amato

We present an analysis of the gamma-ray measurements by the Large Area Telescope onboard the \textit{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} in the region of the supernova remnant~(SNR) Monoceros Loop~(G205.5$+$0.5). The brightest gamma-ray peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 H. Katagiri , S. Sugiyama , M. Ackermann , J. Ballet , J. M. Casandjian , Y. Hanabata , J. W. Hewitt , M. Kerr , H. Kubo , M. Lemoine-Goumard , P. S. Ray

In the common model supernova shock-acceleration of cosmic rays there are two open questions: 1. where does the high energy cosmic rays below the knee (10$^4-10^6$ Gev) come from, and 2. are cosmic ray accelerated only at their origin or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument onboard, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics and in particular for the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which are short flashes of -rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Aurelien Bouvier

We evaluate the current status of supernova remnants as the sources of Galactic cosmic rays. We summarize observations of supernova remnants, covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum and describe what these obser- vations tell us about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 E. A. Helder , J. Vink , A. M. Bykov , Y. Ohira , J. C. Raymond , R. Terrier
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