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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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most attractive candidates for the acceleration sites of Galactic cosmic rays. We report the detection of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission with the Pass 8 events recorded by Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-29 Yu-Liang Xin , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiang Li , Qiang Yuan , Si-Ming Liu , Da-Ming Wei

Supernova remnants have long been considered as a promising candidate for sources of Galactic cosmic rays. However, modelling cosmic-ray transport around these sources is complicated by the fact that the overdensity of cosmic rays close to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Hanno Jacobs , Philipp Mertsch , Vo Hong Minh Phan

It is not straightforward to determine the distribution of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Galaxy. The two main difficulties are that there are observational selection effects that mean that catalogues of SNRs are incomplete, and distances…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 D. A. Green

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the primary candidates for the sources of Galactic cosmic rays. According to the diffusive shock acceleration theory, SNR shocks produce a power-law spectrum with an index of s = 2,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 I. Telezhinsky , V. V. Dwarkadas , M. Pohl

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

Supernova remnants are believed to be the main sources of galactic Cosmic Rays (CR). Within this framework, particles are accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and then released in the interstellar medium. The mechanism through which CRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-19 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir S. Ptuskin

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnant shocks. Though very popular and robust, this conjecture still needs a conclusive proof. The strongest support to this idea is probably the fact that supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Cristofari , S. Gabici , S. Casanova , R. Terrier , E. Parizot

Supernovae are the dominant source of chemical enrichment of galaxies, and they are an important source of energy to heat the interstellar medium and accelerate cosmic rays. Our knowledge of supernovae in the Milky Way is based mostly on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Sill Verberne , Jacco Vink

Recent results from the HESS gamma ray telescope have shown the presence of both a diffuse, extended, flux of gamma rays above ~0.4 TeV and discrete sources in and near the Galactic Centre. Here, we put forward a possible explanation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

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

We investigate the nature of the accelerated particles responsible for the production of the gamma-ray emission observed from the middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) HB 21. The analysis of more than nine years of Fermi LAT data leads to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-19 L. Ambrogi , R. Zanin , S. Casanova , E. De Ona Wilhelmi , G. Peron , F. Aharonian

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been suspected to be the primary sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Over the past decades, great strides have been made in the modelling of particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and escape…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Anton Stall , Chun Khai Loo , Philipp Mertsch

The origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs) and the possibility of Supernova Remnants (SNRs) being potential CR accelerators is still an open debate. The charged CRs can be detected indirectly by the {\gamma}-ray observatories through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-21 Pooja Sharma , Ziwei Ou , Charles Henry-Cadrot , Coline Dubos , Tiina Suomijärvi

It has been known for over 50 years that the radio emission from shell supernova remnants (SNRs) indicates the presence of electrons with energies in the GeV range emitting synchrotron radiation. The discovery of nonthermal X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. P. Reynolds

Despite tantalizing evidence that supernova remnants (SNRs) are the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs), including the recent detection of a spectral signature of hadronic gamma-ray emission from two SNRs, their origin in aggregate remains…

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

Based on the 13.7~yr Fermi-LAT data, Yeung et al. (2023) claimed detection of two $\gamma$-ray sources (Src-NE and Src-NW) associated with the supernova remnant (SNR) G298.6$-$0.0, and interpreted it as an old GeV SNR interacting with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Paul K. H. Yeung , Shiu-Hang Lee , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Aya Bamba

We study the escape of cosmic-ray protons accelerated at a supernova remnant (SNR). We are interested in their propagation in interstellar medium (ISM) after they leave the shock neighborhood where they are accelerated, but when they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Fumio Takahara

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been suspected to be the primary sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Over the past decades, great strides have been made in the modelling of particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and escape…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Chun Khai Loo , Philipp Mertsch

Over the past decade, $\gamma$-ray observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and accurate cosmic-ray (CR) spectral measurements have significantly advanced our understanding of particle acceleration in SNRs. In combination with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-10 Xiao Zhang , Siming Liu