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While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful accelerators, evidence comes largely from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission from all known Galactic SNRs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. W. Hewitt , F. Acero , T. J. Brandt , J. Cohen , F. de Palma , F. Giordano

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

Supernovae are an important source of energy in the interstellar medium. Young remnants of supernovae have a peak emission in the X-ray region, making them interesting objects for X-ray observations. In particular, the supernova remnant…

We evaluate the current status of supernova remnants as the sources of Galactic cosmic rays. We summarize observations of supernova remnants, covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum and describe what these obser- vations tell us about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 E. A. Helder , J. Vink , A. M. Bykov , Y. Ohira , J. C. Raymond , R. Terrier

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the late stages of supernovae before their merging into the surrounding medium. Oxygen-rich supernova remnants represent a rare subtype with strong visible light oxygen emission. Aims. We present a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Timo Kravtsov , Joseph P. Anderson , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Keiichi Maeda , Seppo Mattila

We present new diagnostic tools for distinguishing supernova remnants (SNRs) from HII regions. Up to now, sources with flux ratio [S II]/H$\rm{\alpha}$ higher than 0.4 have been considered as SNRs. Here, we present the combinations of three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Kopsacheili , A. Zezas , I. Leonidaki

Determination of the explosion type of supernova remnants (SNRs) can be challenging, as SNRs are hundreds to thousands of years old and supernovae (SNe) are classified based on spectral properties days after explosion. Previous studies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Charee L. Peters , Laura A. Lopez , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Keivan G. Stassun , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano

We review the observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe) that give information on the strength and orientation of magnetic fields. Radio polarimetry gives the degree of order of magnetic fields, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. P. Reynolds , B. M. Gaensler , F. Bocchino

Present and future observations of supernova relic neutrinos (SRNs), i.e., a cosmological neutrino background from past core-collapse supernova explosions, potentially give us useful information concerning various fields of astrophysics,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin'ichiro Ando , Katsuhiko Sato

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are strong thermal emitters of infrared radiation. The most prominent lines in the near-infrared spectra of SNRs are [Fe II] lines. The [Fe II] lines are from shocked dense atomic gases, so they trace SNRs in dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Bon-Chul Koo

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the most promising sources of Galactic cosmic rays. One of the principal questions is whether they are accelerating particles up to the maximum energy of Galactic cosmic rays ($\sim$ PeV). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Yutaka Ohira

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are accelerated at the forward shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA), an efficient acceleration mechanism that predicts power-law energy distributions of CRs. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Rebecca Diesing , Damiano Caprioli

We outline the main features of nuclei acceleration at supernova remnant forward shocks, stressing the crucial role played by self-amplified magnetic fields in determining the energy spectrum observed in this class of sources. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Damiano Caprioli

The Supernova Remnant (SNR) HESS J1731-347 displays strong non-thermal TeV gamma-ray and X-ray emission, thus the object is at present time accelerating particles to very high energies. A distinctive feature of this young SNR is the nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Y. Cui , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is employed to investigate the properties of SNR RX J1713.7-3946. Observations of the nonthermal radio and X-ray emission spectra as well as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Voelk

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to accelerate particles up to high energies through the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). Except for direct plasma simulations, all modeling efforts must rely on a given form of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Gilles Ferrand , Rebecca J. Danos , Andreas Shalchi , Samar Safi-Harb , Paul Edmon , Peter Mendygral

Supernova (SN) explosions are a major feedback mechanism regulating star formation in galaxies through their momentum input. We review the observations of SNRs in radiative stages in the Milky Way to validate the theoretical results on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Bon-Chul Koo , Chang-Goo Kim , Sangwook Park , Eve C. Ostriker

The large-scale gradient of the interstellar medium (ISM) density distribution essentially affects the evolution of Supernova remnants (SNRs). In a non-uniform ISM, the shape of SNR becomes essentially non-spherical, and distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 B. Hnatyk , O. Petruk

Relativistic shocks that accompany supernovae (SNe) produce X-ray burst emissions as they break out in the dense circumstellar medium around the progenitors. This phenomenon is sometimes associated with peculiar low-luminosity gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-15 Kazumi Kashiyama , Kohta Murase , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Shan Gao , Peter Mészáros