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Recent precise measurements of cosmic ray (CR) spectra show that the energy distribution of protons is softer than those of heavier nuclei, and there are spectral hardenings for all nuclear compositions above $\sim$200 GV. Models proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu , Qiang Yuan

The direct measurements of cosmic rays (CRs), after correction for the propagation effects in the interstellar medium, indicate that their source spectra are likely to be significantly steeper than the canonical $E^{-2}$ spectrum predicted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-08 Mikhail Malkov , Felix Aharonian

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the site of galactic cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the details of the cosmic-ray acceleration are still not well understood. Gamma ray observation is a promising method to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue

Supernova blast wave shock is a very important site of cosmic-ray acceleration. However, the detailed physical process of acceleration, in particular, non-linear interplay between cosmic-ray streaming and magnetic field amplification has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Marcowith , Gwenael Giacinti

Context. Galactic cosmic rays are widely assumed to arise from diffusive shock acceleration, specifically at shocks in supernova remnants (SNRs). These shocks expand in a complex environment, particularly in the core-collapse scenario as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Samata Das , Robert Brose , Dominique M. -A. Meyer , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch , Pavlo Plotko

The broad-band X-ray observations of the youngest known galactic supernova remnant, G1.9+0.3, provide unique information about the particle acceleration at the early stages of evolution of supernova remnants. Based on the publicly available…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Rui-zhi Yang , Xiao-na Sun , Felix Aharonian

The shock fronts of supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be significant sites of acceleration of cosmic ray particles. Previous researchers have shown that a particle distribution similar to a log-parabola can be generated when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua J. Ziegler , Justin D. Finke , J. Martin Laming

Context. The diffusive shock acceleration mechanism has been widely accepted as the acceleration mechanism for galactic cosmic rays. While self-consistent hybrid simulations have shown how power-law spectra are produced, detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Wolff , R. C. Tautz

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

The gamma-ray observations of molecular clouds associated with supernova remnants are considered one of the most promising ways to search for a solution of the problem of cosmic ray origin. Here we briefly review the status of the field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 S. Gabici , J. Krause , G. Morlino , L. Nava

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are often considered as the main sites of acceleration of cosmic rays in our Galaxy, possibly up to the knee. However, their ability to accelerate particles to reach PeV energies is questionable and lacks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Iurii Sushch , Pasquale Blasi , Robert Brose

In this paper, we develop a model for the radio and X-ray emissions from Type IIb Supernova (SN IIb) 2011dh in the first 100 days after the explosion, and investigate a spectrum of relativistic electrons accelerated at a strong shock wave.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Keiichi Maeda

Interstellar medium clouds in the W28 region are emitting gamma-rays and it is likely that the W28 supernova remnant is responsible, making W28 a prime candidate for the study of cosmic-ray acceleration and diffusion. Understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Nigel Maxted , Gavin Rowell , Phoebe de Wilt , Michael Burton , Catherine Braiding , Andrew Walsh , Yasuo Fukui , Akiko Kawamura

In this paper we present an investigation of numerical Monte Carlo simulations of the diffusive shock acceleration in the test particle limit. Very high gamma flow astrophysical plasmas, have been used, from $\gamma_{up}$ $\sim50$ up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Meli , J. J. Quenby

We discuss the generic characteristics of stochastic particle acceleration by a fully developed turbulence spectrum and show that resonant interactions of particles with high speed waves dominate the acceleration process. To produce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siming Liu , Zhong-Hui Fan , Christopher L. Fryer

In present study I examine the capability of diffusive shock acceleration mechanism to explain existing data on radio emission from evolved large diameter shell-type adiabatic supernova remnants (SNRs). Time-dependent ''onion-shell'' model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Asvarov

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 present a three-dimensional hybrid simulation of a collisionless perpendicular shock in a partially ionized plasma for the first time. In this simulation, the shock velocity and the upstream ionization fraction are Vsh ~ 1333 km/s and fi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Yutaka Ohira

We perform kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Bohm-like diffusion assumed, and simple models for Alfvenic drift and dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang

Recent cosmic-ray measurements have found an anomaly in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at GeV-TeV energies. Although the origin of the anomaly is not clearly understood, suggested explanations include effect of cosmic-ray source spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Satyendra Thoudam , Jörg R. Hörandel