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We probe the environmental properties of X-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) at various points along their evolutionary journey, especially the S-T phase, and their conformance with theoretically derived models of SNR evolution. The remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Chris Albert , Vikram V Dwarkadas

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 take advantage of the red clump stars to build the relation of the optical extinction (AV) and distance in each direction of supernova remnants (SNRs) with known extinction in the fourth Galactic quadrant. The distances of 9 SNRs are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Su-Su Shan , Hui Zhu , Wen-Wu Tian , Hai-Yan Zhang , Ai-Yuan Yang , Meng-Fei Zhang

(Abridged) We present the results of three dimensional calculations for the MHD evolution of an adiabatic supernova remnant in both a uniform and turbulent interstellar medium using the RIEMANN framework of Balsara. In the uniform case,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dinshaw Balsara , Robert A. Benjamin , Donald P. Cox

During a detailed search for optical counterparts of known Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) using the Anglo Australian Observatory/United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (AAO/UKST) HAlpha survey of the southern Galactic plane we have found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker

Aims: We present a detailed study of the supernova remnant (SNR) G296.7-0.9 in the 0.2-12 keV X-ray band. Methods: Using data from XMM-Newton we performed a spectro-imaging analysis of G296.7-0.9 in order to deduce the basic parameters of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Tobias Prinz , Werner Becker

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has $\sim$60 confirmed supernova remnants (SNRs). Because of the known distance, 50 kpc, the SNRs' angular sizes can be converted to linear sizes, and their X-ray observations can be used to assess X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Po-Sheng Ou , You-Hua Chu , Pierre Maggi , Chuan-Jui Li , Un Pang Chang , Robert A. Gruendl

The DEML316 system contains two shells, both with the characteristic signatures of supernova remnants (SNRs). We analyze Chandra and XMM-Newton data for DEML316, investigating its spatial and spectral X-ray features. Our Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. M. Williams , Y. -H. Chu

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

Increasing observational evidence gathered especially in X-rays and gamma-rays during the course of the last few years support the notion that Supernova remnants (SNRs) are Galactic particle accelerators up to energies close to the ``knee''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Funk

I briefly summarize some facts and ideas concerning the presence of neutron stars in Supernova remnants. While sources similar to the Crab Nebula require the presence of a central energetic object, shell-type remnants such as Cas A are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Pacini

The transition from supernovae (SNe) to supernova remnants (SNRs) remains poorly understood, given the age gap between well-studied examples of the two. In order to bridge this gap, we analysed archival Chandra data for some of the oldest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Vandana Ramakrishnan , Vikram V. Dwarkadas

As a key process that refreshes the interstellar medium, the dynamics and radiative properties of the supernova remnant (SNR) expansion front not only reflect the physical environment of the old interstellar medium (ISM) surrounding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Horace Zhang , Yang Gao , Chung K. Law

A new faint and large shell-type radio Supernova Remnant (SNR) G108.2-0.6 has been discovered in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). The SNR shows an elliptical shell-type structure at 1420 MHz, and has a 408-1420 MHz TT-plot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. W. Tian , D. A. Leahy , T. J. Foster

We present analytical and numerical studies of models of supernova-remnant (SNR) blast waves expanding into uniform media and interacting with a denser cavity wall, in one spatial dimension. We predict the nonthermal emission from such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-23 Zhu Tang , Stephen P. Reynolds , Sean M. Ressler

We present new radio images of the supernova remnant (SNR) CTA 1 at 1420 and 408 MHz, and in the 21 cm line of H I observed with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory Synthesis Telescope and at 1420 MHz observed with the Effelsberg…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Tam Do , Roland Kothes , Alex S. Hill , Andrew Gray , Patricia Reich , Wolfgang Reich

A combination of archival multi-frequency radio observations with narrow-band HAlpha optical imagery and new confirmatory optical spectroscopy have shown that candidate supernova remnant G6.31+0.54 can now be confirmed as part of a Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 M. Stupar , Q. A. Parker , D. J. Frew

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

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of significant production of thermal bremsstrahlung radiation at radio continuum frequencies that could be linked to some Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). The main targets for this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Onic , D. Urosevic , B. Arbutina , D. Leahy

The X-ray emission from a supernova remnant (SNR) is a powerful diagnostic of the state of the shocked plasma. The temperature (kT) and the emission measure (EM) of the shocked-gas are related to the energy of the explosion, the age of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-21 D. A. Leahy , S. Ranasinghe. M. Gelowitz