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There are about 70 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) that are now confirmed or suggested to be in physical contact with molecular clouds (MCs) with six kinds of evidence of multiwavelength observations. Recent detailed CO-line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yang Chen , Bing Jiang , Ping Zhou , Yang Su , Xin Zhou , Hui Li , Xiao Zhang

OH(1720 MHz) masers are excellent signposts of interaction between supernova remnants(SNRs) and molecular clouds. Using the GBT and VLA we have surveyed 75 SNRs and six candidates for maser emission. Four new interacting SNRs are detected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 John W. Hewitt , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh

In recent works, through observations of molecular lines, we found that the supernova remnant (SNR) G18.8+0.3 is interacting with a molecular cloud towards its southern edge. Also it has been proven the presence of several neighboring HII…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-02 M. Celis Peña , Sergio Paron

Observations of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants (SNR) established them as sources of accelerated particles up to energies of 100 TeV. The dominant process - leptonic or hadronic - responsible for the VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-23 Stephanie Häffner , Ira Jung , Christian Stegmann

Cosmic rays (CRs) have strong influences on the chemistry of dense molecular clouds (MCs). To study the detailed chemistry induced by CRs, we conducted a Yebes W band line survey towards an unshocked MC (which we named as 3C391:NML)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Tian-Yu Tu , Prathap Rayalacheruvu , Liton Majumdar , Yang Chen , Ping Zhou , Miguel Santander-García

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission coincident with four supernova remnants (SNRs) using data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. G349.7+0.2, CTB 37A, 3C 391 and G8.7-0.1 are supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Castro , Patrick Slane

We investigate the molecular environment of the Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) Kesteven 78 and perform an XMM-Newton X-ray spectroscopic study for the northeastern edge of the remnant. SNR Kes78 is found to interact with the molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Ping Zhou , Yang Chen

Many supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered to evolve in molecular environments, but the associations between SNRs and molecular clouds (MCs) are often unclear. Being aware of such ambiguous case, we report our study on the molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Xin Zhou , Yang Su , Ji Yang , Yang Chen , Ye Xu , Xuepeng Chen , Shaobo Zhang

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered as being the sources of galactic cosmic rays. In order to understand the origin, acceleration, and composition of these cosmic rays, detailed knowledge of the physical conditions in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-24 Sibylle Anderl , Antoine Gusdorf , Rolf Güsten

We report a discovery of shocked gas from the supernova remnant (SNR) G357.7+0.3. Our millimeter and submillimeter observations reveal broad molecular lines of CO(2-1), CO(3-2), CO(4-3), 13CO (2-1) and 13CO (3-2), HCO^+ and HCN using HHSMT,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 J. Rho , J. Bieging , J. Hewitt , M. Andersen , W. T. Reach , R. Guesten

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission coincident with three supernova remnants (SNRs) using data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. W41, MSH 17-39, and G337.0-0.1 are SNRs known to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Daniel Castro , Patrick Slane , Ashley Carlton , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

We performed millimeter observations in CO lines toward the supernova remnant (SNR) G127.1+0.5. We found a molecular filament at 4--13 km s$^{-1}$ consisting of two distinct parts: a straight part coming out of the remnant region and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Xin Zhou , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Yang Su

Sgr B2 is a well-known star forming molecular cloud complex in the Galactic center region showing evidence of high energy activity as traced by the K$\alpha$ neutral FeI line at 6.4 keV, as well as GeV and TeV $\gamma$-ray emission. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh , W. Cotton , M. Wardle , H. Intema

We report new CO observations and a detailed molecular-line study of the mixed morphology (MM) supernova remnant (SNR) G359.1-0.5, which contains six OH (1720 MHz) masers along the radio shell, indicative of shock-cloud interaction.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-26 L. K. Eppens , E. M. Reynoso , J. Lazendic-Galloway , J. A. Combi , J. F. Albacete Colombo , -

We have performed the submillimeter and millimeter observations in CO lines toward supernova remnant (SNR) IC443. CO molecular shell is well coincident with the partial shell of the SNR detected in radio continuum observations. The broad…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jin-Long Xu , Jun-Jie Wang , Martin Miller

Recent studies using 21 cm HI line and $^{13}$CO line observations in the inner part of the Galaxy have resulted in new distances for 30 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). 15 of those remnants have observed X-ray spectra, for which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 D. A. Leahy , S. Ranasinghe

We have carried out high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopic observations toward 16 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) showing strong H$_{2}$ emission features. A dozen bright H$_{2}$ emission lines are clearly detected for individual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Yong-Hyun Lee , Bon-Chul Koo , Jae-Joon Lee

We present a new optical sample of three Supernova Remnants and 16 Supernova Remnant (SNR) candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud(LMC). These objects were originally selected using deep H$\alpha$, [SII] and [OIII] narrow-band imaging.…

We investigate the molecular environment of the supernova remnant (SNR) Kesteven 67 (G18.8+0.3) using observations in $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, HCO$^+$,and HCN lines and possible associated $\gamma$-ray emission using 16-yr Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Yun-Zhi Shen , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Tian-Yu Tu , Wen-Juan Zhong , Qian-Qian Zhang , Qian-Cheng Liu

The environment of supernova remnants (SNRs) is a key factor in their evolution, particularly at later stages of their existence. It is often assumed that mixed-morphology (MM) SNRs evolve in very dense environments, and that their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 Maria Arias , Vladimir Domcek , Ping Zhou , Jacco Vink