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The middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) W44 has recently attracted attention because of its relevance regarding the origin of Galactic cosmic-rays. The gamma-ray missions AGILE and Fermi have established, for the first time for a SNR, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-14 M. Cardillo , M. Tavani , A. Giuliani , S. Yoshiike , H. Sano , T. Fukuda , Y. Fukui , G. Castelletti , G. Dubner

A number of modern experiments in high-energy astrophysics produce images of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the TeV and GeV gamma-rays. Either relativistic electrons (due to the inverse-Compton scattering) or protons (due to the pion decays)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Beshley , O. Petruk

In this paper we discuss possible ultra high energy ($\ge$ TeV) neutrino emission from Supernova Remnants (SNRs), specifically the hadronic gamma ray production models. Recent very high energy (VHE) $\gamma$ ray observation from SNRs is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mou Roy

We overview high-energy neutrinos from galactic sources, transparent to their gamma-ray emission. We focus on young supernova remnants and in particular on RX J1713.7-3946, discussing expectations and upper bounds. We also consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Vissani , Felix Aharonian

We study the origin of gamma rays from the supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946. Using an analytical model, we calculate the distribution of cosmic rays (CRs) around the SNRs. Motivated by the results of previous studies, we assume that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-02 Yutaka Fujita , Ryo Yamazaki , Yutaka Ohira

Fukui et al. (2021) quantified the hadronic and leptonic gamma rays in the young TeV gamma ray shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RXJ1713.7-3946 (RXJ1713), and demonstrated that the gamma rays are a combination of the hadronic and leptonic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Yasuo Fukui , Maki Aruga , Hidetoshi Sano , Takahiro Hayakawa , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Gavin Rowell , Sabrina Einecke , Kengo Tachihara

The escape of accelerated particles from supernova remnants remains one of the central and yet least understood aspects of the origin of cosmic rays. Here we use the results of the recent LHAASO observation of gamma rays from a region of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-11 P. Blasi

The launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton has led to important new findings concerning the X-ray emission from supernova remnants. These findings are a result of the high spatial resolution with which imaging spectroscopy is now possible, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacco Vink

The rate of ionization by cosmic rays in interstellar gas directly associated with gamma-ray emitting supernova remnants is for the first time calculated to be several orders of magnitude larger than the Galactic average. Analysis of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. K. Becker , J. H. Black , M. Safarzadeh , F. Schuppan

Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) are important (and perhaps the dominant) agents for production of the Galactic cosmic rays. Recent $\gamma$-ray observations of several SNRs have made this case more compelling. However, these broadband…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Siming Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi

The last decade has been dense with new developments in the search for the sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Some of these developments have confirmed the tight connection between cosmic rays and supernovae in our Galaxy, through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Pasquale Blasi

We propose a conceptually and computationally simple method to evaluate the neutrinos emitted by supernova remnants using the observed gamma-ray spectrum. The proposed method does not require any preliminary parametrization of the gamma ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 F. L. Villante , F. Vissani

Due to its centrally bright X-ray morphology and limb brightened radio profile, MSH 11-61A (G290.1-0.8) is classified as a mixed morphology supernova remnant (SNR). H$\textsc{i}$ and CO observations determined that the SNR is interacting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Katie Auchettl , Patrick Slane , Daniel Castro , Adam R. Foster , Randall K. Smith

The Fermi $\gamma$-ray space telescope reported the observation of several Galactic supernova remnants recently, with the $\gamma$-ray spectra well described by hadronic $pp$ collisions. The possible neutrino emissions from these Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi

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

Galactic cosmic rays are commonly believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Despite the popularity of this idea, a conclusive proof for its validity is still missing. Gamma-ray astronomy provides us…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Acero , A. Bamba , S. Casanova , E. de Cea , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , S. Gabici , Y. Gallant , D. Hadasch , A. Marcowith , G. Pedaletti , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , D. F. Torres , F. Volpe

Supernovae and their remnants have long been favored as cosmic ray ac- celerators. Recent data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has given us an improved window into such sources, including the remnant CTB 37A. Using the Fermi Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-02 T. J. Brandt

We analyze the results of recent measurements of Galactic cosmic ray (GCRs) energy spectra and the spectra of nonthermal emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) in order to determine their consistency with GCR origin in SNRs. It is shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-30 E. G. Berezhko

The undisputed galactic origin of cosmic rays at energies below the so-called knee implies an existence of a nonthemal population of galactic objects which effectively accelerate protons and nuclei to TeV-PeV energies. The distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Aharonian

New evidence that cosmic rays (hadronic component) are accelerated by supernova remnant shocks all the way from low energies to high energies, has come from recent works combining gamma-ray observations in the sub-GeV to TeV domain on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-09 Stefano Gabici , Thierry Montmerle