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Possibility to model the high energy synchrotron emission (in X- and gamma-rays) from supernova remnants is an important task for modern astronomy and astrophysics, because it may be responsible for the nonthermal X-rays and TeV gamma-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Petruk

Supernova remnants (SNRs) exhibit varying degrees of anisotropy, which have been extensively modeled using numerical methods. We implement a technique to measure anisotropies in SNRs by calculating power spectra from their high-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-20 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell , Abigail Polin , Dan Milisavljevic

The observed spectrum of a supernova remnant (SNR) is a superposition of many ``local'' spectra emitted by regions of SNRs that are under different physical conditions. The question remains as to whether the broadening of the high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Petruk

Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) is well-established as a source of particle acceleration to very high energies. Constraints from numerous studies indicate that the observed gamma-ray emission results primarily from hadronic processes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Slane , S. -H. Lee , D. C. Ellison , D. J. Patnaude , J. P. Hughes , K. A. Eriksen , D. Castro , S. Nagataki

We examine the hypothesis that some supernova remnants (SNRs) may be responsible for some unidentified gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. If this is the case, gamma-rays are produced via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Hnatyk , O. Petruk

We have developed an inversion method for determination of the characteristics of the acceleration mechanism directly and non-parametrically from observations, in contrast to the usual forward fitting of parametric model variables to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Vahé Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered to be sites of Galactic cosmic ray (CR) acceleration. Vela is one of the nearest Galactic composite SNRs to Earth accompanied by the Vela pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) Vela X. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Iurii Sushch , Bohdan Hnatyk

A simple formalism to describe nonthermal electron acceleration, evolution, and radiation in supernova remnants (SNRs) is presented. The electron continuity equation is analytically solved assuming that the nonthermal electron injection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Justin D. Finke , Charles D. Dermer

We calculate synchrotron radio emission and gamma-ray emission due to bremsstrahlung, inverse-Compton scattering and $pi^0$-decay from the remnant of supernova which exploded in the circumstellar matter (CSM) formed by the progenitor's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Takafumi Shimizu , Kuniaki Masai , Katsuji Koyama

We present two-dimensional MHD simulations of the evolution of a young Type Ia supernova remnant during its interaction with an interstellar cloud of comparable size at impact. We include for the first time in such simulations explicit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Byung-Il Jun , T. W. Jones

Aims. Two-dimensional MHD simulations are used to model the emission properties of TeV-bright shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) and to explore their nature. Methods. In the leptonic scenario for the TeV emission, the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 Chuyuan Yang , Siming Liu , Jun Fang , Hui Li

Recent observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite have revealed bright gamma-ray emission from middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) inside our Galaxy. These remnants, which also possess bright non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiu-Hang Lee , Daniel J. Patnaude , John C. Raymond , Shigehiro Nagataki , Patrick O. Slane , Donald C. Ellison

We have extended a simple model of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration (Berezhko and Ellison 1999) to include the injection and acceleration of electrons and the production of photons from bremsstrahlung, synchrotron, inverse-Compton,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald C. Ellison , Evgeny G. Berezhko , Matthew G. Baring

We carry out three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the supernova remnants (SNRs) produced inside molecular clouds (MCs) near their surface using the HLL code (Harten et al. 1983). We explore the dynamical evolution and the X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Wankee Cho , Jongsoo Kim , Bon-Chul Koo

We present results of hydrodynamical simulations of young supernova remnants. To model the ejecta, we use several models (discussed in literature) of type Ia supernova explosions with different abundances. Our hydro models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kosenko , E. I. Sorokina , S. I. Blinnikov , P. Lundqvist

The mixed morphology class of supernova remnants has centrally peaked X-ray emission along with a shell-like morphology in radio emission. White & Long proposed that these remnants are evolving in a cloudy medium wherein the clouds are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Jonathan D. Slavin , Randall K. Smith , Adam Foster , Henry D. Winter , John C. Raymond , Patrick O. Slane , Hiroya Yamaguchi

We develop a multipole analysis method for images with a circular boundary, then apply it to supernova remnant (SNR) images. The morphology of SNR images is related to several factors, including the inhomogeneities of the supernova ejecta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Denis A. Leahy , S. Ranasinghe , J. Hansen , M. D. Filipović , Z. Smeaton

We examine the evolution and emission of the supernova remnant (SNR) CTB109 using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. The SNR evolves in a medium divided by a plane interface into two media with different densities and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Castellanos-Ramírez , P. F. Velázquez , J. Cantó

The cosmic-ray spectrum up to the knee ($E\sim 10^{15}$ eV) is attributed to acceleration processes taking place at the blastwaves which bound supernova remnants. Theoretical predictions give a similar estimate for the maximum energy which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric van der Swaluw , Abraham Achterberg , Yves A. Gallant