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The 1st Fermi LAT SNR Catalog: Constraining the Cosmic Ray Contribution

Despite tantalizing evidence that supernova remnants (SNRs) are the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs), including the recent detection of a spectral signature of hadronic gamma-ray emission from two SNRs, their origin in aggregate remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. J. Brandt , F. Acero , F. de Palma , J. W. Hewitt , M. Renaud

Systematically characterizing regions of the First Fermi-LAT SNR Catalog

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful cosmic-ray accelerators, indirect evidence comes from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-14 F. de Palma , T. J. Brandt , J. W. Hewitt , G. Johannesson , L. Tibaldo

The 1st Fermi LAT SNR Catalog: Probing the Gamma-ray Population

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful accelerators, evidence comes largely from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission from all known Galactic SNRs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. W. Hewitt , F. Acero , T. J. Brandt , J. Cohen , F. de Palma , F. Giordano

The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Based on the spatial overlap of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-19 Fabio Acero , Markus Ackermann , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Guido Barbiellini , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , Roger Blandford , E. D. Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Eugenio Bottacini , J. Bregeon , Philippe Bruel , Rolf Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , Rob A. Cameron , R Caputo , Micaela Caragiulo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Jean Marc Casandjian , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Claudia Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , Stefano Ciprini , R. Claus , J. M. Cohen , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , L. R. Cominsky , B. Condon , Jan Conrad , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. Angelis , F. Palma , Rachele Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Venere , Persis S Drell , Alex Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , E. C. Ferrara , Anna Franckowiak , Prof. Yasushi Fukazawa , Prof. Stefan Funk , P. Fusco , Fabio Gargano , Dario Gasparrini , Nicola Giglietto , Paolo Giommi , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Tom Glanzman , Gary Godfrey , G A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , M Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , M. Hayashida , Elizabeth Hays , J. W. Hewitt , A. B. Hill , Deirdre Horan , X. Hou , Giulia Iafrate , Tobias Jogler , G. J'ohannesson , Anthony S. Johnson , T. Kamae , Hideaki Katagiri , Prof. Jun Kataoka , Junichiro Katsuta , Matthew Kerr , J. Knodlseder , Prof. Dale Kocevski , M. Kuss , Helene Laffon , J. Lande , S. Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , L. Li , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Michael N. Lovellette , Pasquale Lubrano , J. Magill , S. Maldera , Martino Marelli , Michael Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , Peter F. Michelson , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alexander A. Moiseev , Maria Elena Monzani , E. Moretti , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Prof. Simona Murgia , Prof. Rodrigo Nemmen , Eric Nuss , Takashi Ohsugi , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , David Paneque , J. S. Perkins , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Prof. Vahe' Petrosian , Frederic Piron , Giovanna Pivato , Troy Porter , S. Rain`o , Riccardo Rando , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Prof. Olaf Reimer , Matthieu Renaud , Thierry Reposeur , Mr. Romain Rousseau , P. M. Parkinson , J. Schmid , A. Schulz , C. Sgr`o , Eric J Siskind , Francesca Spada , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Andrew W. Strong , Daniel Suson , Hiro Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , T. Tanaka , Jana B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , Omar Tibolla , Prof. Diego F. Torres , Gino Tosti , Eleonora Troja , Yasunobu Uchiyama , G. Vianello , B. Wells , Kent Wood , M. Wood , Manal Yassine , Stephan Zimmer

A GeV to TeV view of shell-type SNRs

Shock acceleration by the shells of supernova remnants (SNRs) has been hypothesized to be the mechanism that produces the bulk of Galactic Cosmic Rays, possibly up to PeV energies. Some SNRs have been shown to accelerate cosmic rays to TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Henrike Fleischhack , the HAWC collaboration , the Fermi-LAT collaboration

The Contribution of Different Supernova Populations to the Galactic Gamma-Ray Background

The contribution of Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), accelerated and still confined in Supernova Remnants (SNRs), to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. The \grs produced by the SCRs have a much…

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

Galactic Gamma-Ray Background Radiation from Supernova Remnants

The contribution of the Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), confined in Supernova Remnants, to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. \grs produced by the SCRs have a much harder spectrum compared with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Evgeny G. Berezhko , Heinrich J. Voelk

GeV {\gamma}-ray Emission Detected by Fermi-LAT Probably Associated with the Thermal Composite Supernova Remnant Kesteven 41 in a Molecular Environment

Hadron emission from supernova remnant (SNR)-molecular cloud (MC) association systems has been widely regarded as a probe of the shock-accelerated cosmic-ray protons. Here, we report on the detection of a {\gamma}-ray emission source, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Bing Liu , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Gao-Yuan Zhang , Yi Xing , Thomas G. Pannuti

Fermi-LAT detection of extended gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of SNR G045.7$-$00.4: evidence for escaping cosmic rays interacting with the surrounding molecular clouds

We present the analysis of Fermi Large Area Telecope (LAT) data of the gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of a radio supernova remnant (SNR), G045.7$-$00.4. To study the origin of the gamma-ray emission, we also make use of the CO survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-12 Hai-Ming Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Yang Su , Hui Zhu , Shao-Qiang Xi , Xiang-Yu Wang

The supernova remnant W44: a case of cosmic-Ray reacceleration

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the primary sources of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs). In the last few years, the wealth of gamma-ray data collected by GeV and TeV instruments has provided important information about particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-02 Martina Cardillo , Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

GeV Gamma Rays from Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds

We report the current status of the observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, focusing on middle-aged SNRs that appear to be interacting with molecular clouds.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Yasunobu Uchiyama

From E. Fermi to Fermi-LAT: watching particle acceleration in supernova remnants

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have been regarded for many decades as the sources of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to a few PeV. However, only with the advent of Fermi-LAT it has been possible to detect - at least in some SNRs - \gamma-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-12 Damiano Caprioli

Cosmic Ray Studies with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides both direct and indirect measurements of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The LAT high-statistics observations of the 7 GeV - 1 TeV electron plus positron spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 David J. Thompson , Luca Baldini , Yasunobu Uchiyama

The 1st Fermi LAT SNR Catalog: the Impact of Interstellar Emission Modeling

Galactic interstellar emission contributes substantially to Fermi LAT observations in the Galactic plane, the location of the majority of supernova remnants (SNRs). To explore some systematic effects on SNRs' properties caused by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. J. Brandt , J. Ballet , F. de Palma , G. Johannesson , L. Tibaldo

Fermi-LAT Discovery of GeV Gamma-ray Emission from the Vicinity of SNR W44

We report the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from the molecular cloud complex that surrounds the supernova remnant (SNR) W44 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi. While the previously reported gamma-ray emission from SNR…

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Gamma-ray spectrum of RX J1713.7-3946 in the Fermi era and future detection of neutrinos

The recently launched satellite, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is expected to find out if cosmic-ray (CR) protons are generated from supernova remnants (SNRs), especially RX J1713.7-3946, by observing the GeV-to-TeV gamma-rays. The GeV…

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A Study of GeV Gamma-ray Emission toward Supernova Remnant G51.26+0.11 and Its Molecular Environment

We reanalyze the Fermi-LAT GeV $\gamma$-ray emission in the region of supernova remnant (SNR) G51.26+0.11 and investigate its interstellar molecular environment with the CO-line data. At GeV energies, based on 13.2 years of Fermi-LAT data,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Wen-Juan Zhong , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen , Qian-Qian Zhang

Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays from Supernova Remnants

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

Evidence of cosmic-ray acceleration up to sub-PeV energies in the supernova remnant IC 443

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have been considered as the primary contributors to cosmic rays (CRs) in our Galaxy. However, the maximum energy of particles that can be accelerated by shocks of SNRs is uncertain, and SNRs' contribution to CRs…

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Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Origin Theories from TeV Gamma-Ray Observations

If supernova remnants (SNRs) are the sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, the associated nuclear interactions should result in observable fluxes of TeV gamma-rays from the nearest SNRs. Measurements of the gamma-ray flux from six nearby,…

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