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Magnetic turbulence plays a crucial role in confining charged particles near the shock front of Supernova Remnants, enabling them to reach energies up to hundreds of TeV through a process known as Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA). These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Emanuele Greco

We have investigated via two-dimensional relativistic MHD simulations the long-term evolution of turbulence created by a relativistic shock propagating through an inhomogeneous medium. In the postshock region, magnetic field is strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Yosuke Mizuno , Martin Pohl , Jacek Niemiec , Bing Zhang , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

(Abridged) X-ray observations of synchrotron rims in supernova remnant (SNR) shocks show evidence of strong magnetic field amplification (a factor of ~100 between the upstream and downstream medium). This amplification may be due to plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Mario A. Riquelme , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be mostly accelerated at supernova shocks. However, the interstellar magnetic field is too weak to efficiently accelerate galactic cosmic rays up to the highest energies, i.e. $10^{15}$ eV. A stronger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Maria Victoria del Valle , Alexandre Lazarian , Reinaldo Santos-Lima

Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) accelerate charged particles up to 100 TeV range via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. It is believed that shocks of SNRs are the main contributors to the pool of Galactic cosmic rays,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Jacco Vink , Aya Bamba

It has been known for over 50 years that the radio emission from shell supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates the presence of electrons with energies in the GeV range emitting synchrotron radiation. The discovery of nonthermal X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. P. Reynolds

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

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is considered one of the prime mechanisms for Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) acceleration. It is still unclear, however, whether SNRs can contribute to GCR spectrum up to the ``knee''…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-06 Victor Doroshenko , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo

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

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates for the source of cosmic rays, at least to energies up to ~10^14 eV, it is only over the past several years that direct evidence of such energetic particles in SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

We examine MHD simulations of the propagation of a strong shock wave through the interstellar two-phase medium composed of small-scale cloudlets and diffuse warm neutral medium in two-dimensional geometry. The pre-shock two-phase medium is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Observations of non-thermal emission from several supernova remnants suggest that magnetic fields close to the blastwave are much stronger than would be naively expected from simple shock compression of the field permeating the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Luke O'C. Drury , Turlough P. Downes

Observations show that the magnetic field in young supernova remnants (SNRs) is significantly stronger than can be expected from the compression of the circumstellar medium (CSM) by a factor of four expected for strong blast waves.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-05 K. M. Schure , J. Vink , A. Achterberg , R. Keppens

We show here that highly polarized X-ray synchrotron radiation from young supernova remnants (SNRs) can be modeled within the framework of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) and nonlinear magnetic turbulence generation.Cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Andrei. M. Bykov , Sergei. M. Osipov , Yury. A. Uvarov , Donald. C. Ellison , Patrick Slane

We present very-high-resolution 1D MHD simulations of the late-stage supernova remnants (SNR). In the post-adiabatic stage the magnetic field has an important and significant dynamical effect on the shock dynamics, the flow structure, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 O. Petruk , T. Kuzyo , S. Orlando , M. Pohl , M. Miceli , F. Bocchino , V. Beshley , R. Brose

Supernova blast wave shock is a very important site of cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the detailed physical process of acceleration, in particular, non-linear interplay between cosmic-ray streaming and magnetic field amplification has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Marcowith , Gwenael Giacinti

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

The very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission observed from a number of Supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates particle acceleration to high energies at the shock of the remnants and a potentially significant contribution to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Iurii Sushch , Robert Brose , Martin Pohl , Pavlo Plotko , Samata Das

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