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Using observations from the literature, we show that the non-thermal radio luminosity (L) of supernova remnants (SNRs) is a strong function of the average gas surface density (Sigma) of the galaxy in which the remnants reside, from normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) shocks are believed to accelerate charged particles and to generate strong turbulence in the post-shock flow. From high-energy observations in the past decade, a magnetic field at SNR shocks largely exceeding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Fraschetti

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

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 2015-06-22 T. P. Downes , L. O'C. Drury

We present a radio polarization study of SN 1006, based on combined VLA and ATCA observations at 20 cm that resulted in sensitive images with an angular resolution of 10 arcsec. The fractional polarization in the two bright radio and X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Estela M. Reynoso , John P. Hughes , David A. Moffett

The time-dependent nonlinear kinetic theory for cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is applied studying the properties of the synchrotron emission from SNRs, in particular, the surface brightness-diameter ($\Sigma-D$)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Völk

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks. In the hadronic scenario the TeV gamma-ray emission from SNRs originates from decaying pions that are produced in collisions of the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Matteo Pais , Christoph Pfrommer , Kristian Ehlert , Maria Werhahn , Georg Winner

A number of important processes taking place around strong shocks in supernova remnants (SNRs) depend on the shock obliquity. The measured synchrotron flux is a function of the aspect angle between interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) and the…

Observations of SNRs in X-ray and gamma-ray bands promise to contribute with important information in our understanding on the nature of galactic cosmic rays. The analysis of SNRs images collected in different energy bands requires the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Orlando , O. Petruk , F. Bocchino , M. Miceli

The synchrotron radio maps of supernova remnants (SNRs) in uniform interstellar medium and interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) are analyzed, allowing different `sensitivity' of injection efficiency to the shock obliquity. The very-high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Petruk , V. Beshley , F. Bocchino , S. Orlando

A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants is employed to investigate the properties of the remnant SN 1987A. It is shown that a large downstream magnetic field ~10 mG is required to fit the existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov

We explore the effect of magnetic fields on the vertical distribution and multiphase structure of the supernova-driven interstellar medium (ISM) in simulations that admit dynamo action. As the magnetic field is amplified to become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-26 C. C. Evirgen , F. A. Gent , A. Shukurov , A. Fletcher , P. J. Bushby

The analysis of Balmer-dominated emission in supernova remnants is potentially a very powerful way to derive information on the shock structure, on the physical conditions of the ambient medium and on the cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Rino Bandiera , Giovanni Morlino , Sladjana Knežević , John C. Raymond

Observations of the shell-type supernova remnant SN1006 have been carried out with the H.E.S.S. system of Cherenkov telescopes during 2003 (18.2h with two operating telescopes) and 2004 (6.3h with all four telescopes). No evidence for TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Aharonian

The outer shells of young supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most plausible acceleration sites of high-energy electrons with the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. We studied spatial and spectral properties close to the shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Tatsuo Yoshida , Toshio Terasawa , Katsuji Koyama

The theory of Non-Linear Diffusive Shock Acceleration (NLDSA) predicts the formation of a precursor upstream of the shock, where accelerated particles diffuse and induce magnetic field amplification through streaming instability. The non…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Morlino , E. Amato , P. Blasi , D. Caprioli

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). SNR shocks accelerate CR protons and electrons which reveal key insights into the non-thermal physics by means of their synchrotron and $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Georg Winner , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Maria Werhahn , Matteo Pais

As supernova remnants expand, their shock waves are freezing in and compressing the magnetic field lines they encounter; consequently we can use supernova remnants as magnifying glasses for their ambient magnetic fields. We will describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roland Kothes Jo-Anne Brown

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 present a systematic study on magnetic fields in Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) external forward shocks (FSs). There are 60 (35) GRBs in our X-ray (optical) sample, mostly from Swift. We use two methods to study epsilon_B (fraction of energy in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Rodolfo Santana , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Pawan Kumar