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G347.3-0.5 is one of three shell-type supernova remnants in the Galaxy whose X-ray spectrum is dominated by nonthermal emission. This puts G347.3-0.5 in the small, but growing class of SNRs for which the X-ray emission reveals directly the…

Until now, providing an experimental unambiguous proof of Cosmic Ray (CR) origin has been elusive. The SuperNova Remnant (SNR) study showed an increasingly complex scenario with a continuous elaboration of theoretical models. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Cardillo , M. Tavani , A. Giuliani

Several young supernova remnants (SNRs) have recently been detected in the high-energy and very-high-energy gamma-ray domains. As exemplified by RX J1713.7-3946, the nature of this emission has been hotly debated, and direct evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Lemoine-Goumard , M. Renaud , J. Vink , G. E. Allen , A. Bamba , F. Giordano , Y. Uchiyama

The discovery of a non-thermal radio ring of low surface brightness about one degree in diameter has been recently reported around the location in the sky of the Calvera pulsar, at a high Galactic latitude. The radio properties point to it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Miguel Araya

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely considered the most likely source of cosmic rays below the knee ($10^{15}$ eV). Studies of GeV and TeV gamma-ray emission in the vicinity of SNRs, in combination with multi-wavelength observations, can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Amanda Weinstein

In the common model supernova shock-acceleration of cosmic rays there are two open questions: 1. where does the high energy cosmic rays below the knee (10$^4-10^6$ Gev) come from, and 2. are cosmic ray accelerated only at their origin or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel

For more than fifty years, it has been believed that cosmic ray (CR) nuclei are accelerated to high energies in the rapidly expanding shockwaves created by powerful supernova explosions. Yet observational proof of this conjecture is still…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yousaf Butt , Troy Porter , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

We analyze the results of recent measurements of Galactic cosmic ray (GCRs) energy spectra and the spectra of nonthermal emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) in order to determine their consistency with GCR origin in SNRs. It is shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-30 E. G. Berezhko

Galactic cosmic rays up to energies of around 10^15 eV are assumed to originate in supernova remnants (SNRs). The shock wave of a young SNR like SN 1006 AD can accelerate electrons to energies greater than 1 TeV, where they can produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. Dyer , S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski

The Cygnus Loop (G74.0-8.5) is a very well-known nearby supernova remnant (SNR) in our Galaxy. Thanks to its large size, brightness, and angular offset from the Galactic plane, it has been studied in detail from radio to $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 A. Tutone , J. Ballet , F. Acero , A. D'Aì , G. Cusumano

We report the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from the molecular cloud complex that surrounds the supernova remnant (SNR) W44 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi. While the previously reported gamma-ray emission from SNR…

With the 15 yrs of Pass 8 data recorded by the {\em Fermi} Large Area Telescope, we report the detection of an extended gigaelectronvolt emission component with a 68\% containment radius of $0^{\circ}\!.85$, which is spatially associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-01 Xiaolei Guo , Xi Liu

We investigate hypernova (hyper-energetic supernova) and gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants in our Galaxy as TeV gamma-ray sources, particularly in the role of potential TeV unidentified sources, which have no clear counterpart at other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kunihito Ioka , Peter Meszaros

Amongst the population of TeV gamma-ray sources detected with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the Galactic plane, clearly identified supernova remnant (SNR) shells constitute a small but precious source class. TeV-selected…

Supernova remnant (SNR) detection along the Galactic plane poses a number of challenges. The SNR G309.8+00.0 lies exactly on the Galactic plane, with its center coinciding with galactic latitude (b)=0 deg. In this paper we report the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Miltiadis Michailidis , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo , Manami Sasaki , Werner Becker

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful cosmic-ray accelerators, indirect evidence comes from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission detected by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-14 F. de Palma , T. J. Brandt , J. W. Hewitt , G. Johannesson , L. Tibaldo

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

The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. Tomassetti , F. Donato

SNR G106.3+2.7 is a complex TeV emitting source whose emission is still poorly understood. It has especially been at the center of numerous discussions on its potential for being a supernova remnant (SNR) PeVatron, since its gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 P. Cristofari , G. Emery , T. Lubrano di Vavaria , H. Costantini , F. Cassol , M. -S. Carrasco , B. Le Nagat Neher

Gamma-ray emission provides constraints on the non-thermal radiation processes at play in astrophysical particle accelerators. This allows both the nature of accelerated particles and the maximum energy that they can reach to be determined.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Pauline Chambery , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Armelle Jardin-Blicq , Atreyee Sinha , J. Eagle