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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

Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MMSNRs) are characterized by a shell-like morphology in the radio and centrally-peaked thermal emission in the X-ray band. The nature of this peculiar class of supernova remnants (SNRs) remains a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexandros Chiotellis , Emmanouil Zapartas , Dominique M. -A. Meyer

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the aftermath of massive stellar explosions or of a white dwarf in a binary system, representing critical phases in the life cycle of stars and playing an important role in galactic evolution. Physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 I. Chousein-Basia , A. Zezas , I. Leonidaki , M. Kopsacheili

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 diffuse extended sources characterized by a complex morphology and a non-uniform distribution of ejecta. Such a morphology reflects pristine structures and features of the progenitor supernova (SN) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 S. Orlando , M. Miceli , O. Petruk

The radio evolution of, so far the youngest known, Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3 is investigated by using three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic modelling and non-linear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Z. Pavlović

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

The structure and morphology of supernova remnants (SNRs) reflect the properties of the parent supernovae (SNe) and the characteristics of the inhomogeneous environments through which the remnants expand. Linking the morphology of SNRs to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-29 S. Orlando , A. Wongwathanarat , H. -T. Janka , M. Miceli , M. Ono , S. Nagataki , F. Bocchino , G. Peres

Our statistics on Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) shows that the electrons temperature ($T$) of hard X-ray and the shock waves traveling velocity ($\upsilon$) decreases with ages ($t$) for all-sort remnants. However, the shock waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-18 Jian-Wen Xu , Ya-Peng Hu

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

We model the size distribution of supernova remnants to infer the surrounding ISM density. Using simple, yet standard SNR evolution models, we find that the distribution of ambient densities is remarkably narrow; either the standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Benjamin D. Elwood , Jeremiah W. Murphy , Mariangelly Diaz

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the outcome of supernovae (SNe, either core-collapse or thermonuclear). The remnant results from the interaction between the stellar ejecta and the ambient medium around the progenitor star. Young SNRs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-18 Gilles Ferrand

Multi-wavelength observations of mature supernova remnants (SNRs), especially with recent advances in gamma-ray astronomy, make it possible to constrain energy distribution of energetic particles within these remnants. In consideration of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Houdun Zeng , Yuliang Xin , Siming Liu , J. R. Jokipii , Li Zhang , Shuinai Zhang

We present analytical and numerical studies of models of supernova-remnant (SNR) blast waves expanding into uniform media and interacting with a denser cavity wall, in one spatial dimension. We predict the nonthermal emission from such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-23 Zhu Tang , Stephen P. Reynolds , Sean M. Ressler

We briefly reviewed some recent progress on the studies of supernova remnants (SNRs), including the radio SNRs (the structure, polarization, spectrum etc.), observational characteristics of X-ray emission, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-03 Jian-Wen Xu

Supernovae (SNe) are generally classified into Type I and Type II. Most SNe (~ 80%), including all the subtypes of Type II, and Type Ib/c, arise from the core-collapse of massive stars. During their lifetime, mass-loss from these stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Vikram Dwarkadas

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

AIMS: We investigate whether the morphology of bilateral supernova remnants (BSNRs) observed in the radio band is determined mainly either by a non-uniform interstellar medium (ISM) or by a non-uniform ambient magnetic field. METHODS: We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Orlando , F. Bocchino , F. Reale , G. Peres , O. Petruk

We review the major advances in understanding the morphologies and kinematics of supernova remnants (SNRs). Simulations of SN explosions have improved dramatically over the last few years, and SNRs can be used to test models through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Laura A. Lopez , Robert A. Fesen

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