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Thermal X-ray spectra from supernova remnants (SNRs) are dominated by a number of line emission from various elements. Resolving the individual lines is critically important for a variety of scientific topics such as diagnosing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Satoru Katsuda

The study of the entire population of SNRs in a galaxy helps us to understand the underlying stellar populations, the environments, in which the SNRs are evolving, and the stellar feedback on the ISM. The all-sky survey carried out by the…

The fast shocks that characterize supernova remnants heat circumstellar and ejecta material to extremely high temperatures, resulting in significant X-ray emission. The X-ray spectrum from an SNR carries a wealth of information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Patrick Slane

Supernova remnants are beautiful astronomical objects that are also of high scientific interest, because they provide insights into supernova explosion mechanisms, and because they are the likely sources of Galactic cosmic rays. X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-05 Jacco Vink

Observations of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are crucial to understanding supernova explosion mechanisms and their impact on our Galaxy's evolution. SNRs are usually identified by searching for extended, circular structures in all-sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 S. Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , G. E. Anderson

The problem of missing Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) refers to the issue that the currently known Galactic SNRs are significantly incomplete compared to the theoretical prediction. To expand the sample of Galactic SNRs, we use GLEAM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Tian-Xian Luo , Ping Zhou , Hao-Ning He

Interstellar dust grains play a crucial role in the evolution of the galactic interstellar medium (ISM). Despite its importance, however, dust remains poorly understood in terms of its origin, composition, and abundance throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-11 Brian J. Williams

We present the first public database of high-energy observations of all known Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). In section 1 we introduce the rationale for this work motivated primarily by studying particle acceleration in SNRs, and which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Gilles Ferrand , Samar Safi-Harb

We present a model for the radio evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) obtained by using three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic simulations, coupled with nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs. We model the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-12 Marko Z. Pavlović , Dejan Urošević , Bojan Arbutina , Salvatore Orlando , Nigel Maxted , Miroslav D. Filipović

The study of supernova remnants (SNRs) is fundamental to understanding the chemical enrichment and magnetism in galaxies, including our own Milky Way. In an effort to understand the connection between the morphology of SNRs and the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 J. L. West , S. Safi-Harb , T. Jaffe , R. Kothes , T. L. Landecker , T. Foster

We present a spatially resolved study of the kinematical properties of known supernova remnants (SNRs) in the nearest galaxies of the SIGNALS survey, namely NGC 6822 (one object) and M33 (163 objects), based on data obtained with the…

As supernova remnants expand, their shock waves are freezing in and compressing the magnetic field lines they encounter; consequently we can use supernova remnants as magnifying glasses for their ambient magnetic fields. We will describe a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roland Kothes Jo-Anne Brown

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are important objects in terms of their connections with supernova (SN) explosion mechanism(s), progenitor stars, and cosmic-ray acceleration. Non-thermal emission from SNRs is an effective probe of the structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee , Keiichi Maeda

We present the results of a study of observational and identification techniques used for surveys and spectroscopy of candidate supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 300. The goal of this study was to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 William C. Millar , Graeme L. White , Miroslav D. Filipovic

We study the observable spectral and temporal properties of kilonova remnants (KNRs) analytically, and point out quantitative differences with respect to supernova remnants. We provide detection prospects of KNRs in the context of ongoing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-10 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Paz Beniamini , Kenta Hotokezaka

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 remnants (SNRs) are likely sources of hadronic particle acceleration within our galaxy, contributing to the galactic cosmic ray flux. Next-generation instruments, such as the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nick Scharrer , Samuel T. Spencer , Vikas Joshi , Alison M. W. Mitchell

Supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galaxy are an important source of energy injection into the interstellar medium, and also of cosmic rays. Currently there are 294 known SNRs in the Galaxy, and their distribution with Galactocentric radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-14 D. A. Green

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