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The contribution of galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) to the origin of cosmic rays (CRs) is an important open question in modern astrophysics. Broadband non-thermal emission is a useful proxy for probing the energy budget and production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Ryosuke Kobashi , Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

We present the general analytic solution for the evolution of radiative supernova remnants in a uniform interstellar medium, under thin-shell approximation. This approximation is shown to be very accurate approach to this task. For a given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Bandiera , O. Petruk

A number of supernova remnants (SNRs) show nonthermal X-rays assumed to be synchrotron emission from shock accelerated TeV electrons. The existence of these TeV electrons strongly suggests that the shocks in SNRs are sources of galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald C. Ellison , Anne Decourchelle , Jean Ballet

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 performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the evolution of a supernova remnant (SNR) in a turbulent neutral atomic interstellar medium. The media used as background shares characteristics with the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Marco A. Villagran , P. F. Velázquez , D. O. Gómez , E. B. Giacani

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

Context. Supernova remnants (SNR) are one of the main sources of galactic cosmic rays acceleration. This acceleration, believed to happen at the blast wave front, leads to an energy loss at the shock front. This results in the apparent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Gabriel Rigon , Tsuyoshi Inoue

In an effort to better understand the evolution of composite supernova remnants (SNRs) and the eventual fate of relativistic particles injected by their pulsars, we present a multifaceted investigation of the interaction between a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Tea Temim , Patrick Slane , Christopher Kolb , John Blondin , John P. Hughes , Niccolo Bucciantini

We present numerical simulations of the evolution of a supernova (SN) remnant expanding into a uniform background medium with density $n_H = 1.0$ cm$^{-3}$ and temperature of $10^4$ K. We include a dynamically evolving non-equilibrium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Kartick Chandra Sarkar , Orly Gnat , Amiel Sternberg

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the major contributors to Galactic cosmic rays. The detection of non-thermal emission from SNRs demonstrates the presence of energetic particles, but direct signatures of protons and other ions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Gilles Ferrand , Anne Decourchelle , Samar Safi-Harb

Among Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs), Tycho's SNR has been considered as a typical object from the viewpoints of its spectroscopic, morphological and environmental properties. A recent reanalysis of Chandra data shows that its forward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 Ryosuke Kobashi , Shiu-Hang Lee , Takaaki Tanaka , Keiichi Maeda

The evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) is studied, with particular attention to the effect of magnetic fields with axisymmetric two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations. The evolution of magnetic SNRs is the same as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hidekazu Hanayama , Kohji Tomisaka

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be one of the major acceleration sites of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) and an important class of objects for high-energy astrophysics. SNRs produce multi-wavelength, non-thermal emission via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

We study the propagation of a Newtonian shock in a spherically symmetric, homologously expanding ejecta. We focus on media with a steep power-law density profile of the form $\rho \propto t^{-3}v^{-\alpha}$, with $\alpha>5$, where $v$ is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Taya Govreen-Segal , Ehud Nakar , Amir Levinson

We study cosmic-ray acceleration in young Type Ia Supernova Remnants (SNRs) by means of test-particle diffusive shock acceleration theory and 1-D hydrodynamical simulations of their evolution. In addition to acceleration at the forward…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Igor Telezhinsky , Vikram Dwarkadas , Martin Pohl

Supernova remnants (SNRs) play a central role in shaping the interstellar medium. Core-Collapse Supernova (CCSN) progenitors are massive stars, which produce a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) through intense mass loss in post-main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 C. J. K. Larkin , J. Mackey , B. Reville , H. Jin , N. Langer , A. A. C. Sander

Without amplification, magnetic fields in expanding ejecta of young supernova remnants (SNRs) will be orders of magnitude below those required to shock accelerate thermal electrons, or ions, to relativistic energies or to produce radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald C. Ellison , Anne Decourchelle , Jean Ballet

Near the ends of their lives, supernova remnants (SNRs) enter a "radiative phase," when efficient cooling of the postshock gas slows expansion. Understanding SNR evolution at this stage is crucial for estimating feedback in galaxies, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Rebecca Diesing , Siddhartha Gupta

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

We carry out 1D hydrodynamical simulations of the evolution of a spherically symmetric supernova remnant (SNR) subject to an external radiation field (ERF) that influences the cooling and heating rates of the gas. We consider homogeneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-12 Mario Romero , Yago Ascasibar , Jan Palouš , Richard Wünsch , Mercedes Mollá