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In this work, we compare the $\gamma$-ray spectra available in literature from 11 middle aged supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds (MCs). It is found that 5 remnants prefer a smoothly broken power law proton spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Xiaping Tang

We present a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray emission from the middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) S147 (G180.0$-$1.7) using approximately 16.5 years of Fermi-LAT data. Spatially, a new extended $\gamma$-ray component distinct from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Huan Yang , Bing Liu , Houdun Zeng , Xiaoyuan Huang

Recently, gamma-ray telescopes AGILE and Fermi observed several middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds. It is likely that their gamma rays arise from the decay of neutral pions produced by the inelastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Yutaka Ohira , Kohta Murase , Ryo Yamazaki

Recent gamma-ray observations show that middle aged supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds (MCs) can be sources of both GeV and TeV emission. Based on the MC association, two scenarios have been proposed to explain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the "knee" in CR spectrum. During the evolution of a SNR, the bulk of the CRs are confined inside the SNR shell. The highest-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 I. Telezhinsky , V. V. Dwarkadas , M. Pohl

We present a model of gamma-ray emission from core-collapse supernovae originating from the explosions of massive young stars. The fast forward shock of the supernova remnant (SNR) can accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov

This work reports on the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission coincident with the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR G5.7-0.1 using data collected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The SNR is believed to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Timothy Joubert , Daniel Castro , Patrick Slane , Joseph Gelfand

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

Recent discovery of the X-ray neutral iron line (Fe I K\alpha at 6.40 keV) around several supernova remnants (SNRs) show that MeV cosmic-ray (CR) protons are distributed around the SNRs and are interacting with neutral gas there. We propose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Ken Makino , Yutaka Fujita , Kumiko Nobukawa , Hironori Matsumoto , Yutaka Ohira

The idea that the shocks from supernova remnants (SNR) expanding into the interstellar medium (ISM) accelerate CR is still popular one but a number of authors have drawn attention to the fact that the experimental evidence for the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

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

The middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) CTB 37A is known to interact with several dense molecular clouds through the detection of shocked ${\rm H_{2}}$ and OH 1720 MHz maser emission. In the present work, we use eight years of $\textit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Soheila Abdollahi , Jean ballet , Yasushi Fukazawa , Hideaki Katagiri , Benjamin Condon

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

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

Hadronic $\gamma$-ray sources associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) can serve as stopwatches for the escape of cosmic rays from SNRs, which gradually develops from highest-energy particles to lowest-energy particles with time. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Paul K. H. Yeung , Aya Bamba , Hidetoshi Sano

Observations of the middle-aged supernova remnants IC 443, W28 and W51C indicate that the brightnesses at GeV and TeV energies are correlated with each other and with regions of molecular clump interaction, but not with the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

Recent observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite have revealed bright gamma-ray emission from middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) inside our Galaxy. These remnants, which also possess bright non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Shiu-Hang Lee , Daniel J. Patnaude , John C. Raymond , Shigehiro Nagataki , Patrick O. Slane , Donald C. Ellison

Recent observations reveal that spectral breaks at ~GeV are commonly present in Galactic gamma-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds and that most of them have a spectral ($E^2dF/dE$) "platform" extended from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Hui Li , Yang Chen

The middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) W51C is an interesting source for the interaction of the shell with a molecular cloud. The shell emits intense radio synchrotron photons, and high-energy gamma-rays from the remnant have been detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Jun Fang , Li Zhang

About 30 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be physically associated with molecular clouds (MCs). These systems are prime \g-ray source candidates as the accelerated particles from shock fronts collide with the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Fernandez , M. Dalton , P. Eger , H. Laffon , J. Mehault , S. Ohm , I. Oya , M. Renaud
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