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Supernova explosions (SNe) are among the most energetic events in the Universe. After the explosion, the material ejected by the Supernova expands throughout the interstellar medium (ISM) forming what is called Supernova Remnant (SNR).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Giuseppe Prete , Silvia Perri , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Sergio Servidio

When applied to the blast wave formed by the explosion of a massive star as a supernova (SN), the theory of diffusive particle acceleration at shock fronts predicts a very high energy density in cosmic rays. Almost immediately after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , Lewis Ball

The outer shells of young supernova remnants (SNRs) are the most plausible acceleration sites of high-energy electrons with the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. We studied spatial and spectral properties close to the shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Tatsuo Yoshida , Toshio Terasawa , Katsuji Koyama

We report the results obtained from XMM-Newton observations of the TeV-detected supernova remnant (SNR) HESS J1534-571. We focus on the nature of the cosmic-ray particle content in the SNR, which is revealed by its $\gamma$-ray emission. No…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 N. T. Nguyen-Dang , G. Pühlhofer , M. Sasaki , A. Bamba , V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo

A rapidly growing amount of evidences, mostly coming from the recent gamma-ray observations of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs), is seriously challenging our understanding of how particles are accelerated at fast shocks. The cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Damiano Caprioli

(Abridged) We present an analysis of the X-ray spectrum of the Galactic shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) G347.3-0.5 (RX J1713.7-3946). By performing a joint spectral analysis of data from observations made of G347.3-0.5 using the ROSAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas G. Pannuti , Glenn E. Allen , John C. Houck , Steven J. Sturner

Observations of the middle-aged supernova remnants IC 443, W28 and W51C indicate that the brightnesses at GeV and TeV energies are correlated with each other and with regions of molecular clump interaction, but not with the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

We analyze the GeV gamma-ray emission data from the vicinity of the supernova remnant (SNR) HB9 (G160.9+2.6) from the \textit{Fermi}-LAT 12-year observations to quantify the evolution of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in the SNR. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Tomohiko Oka , Wataru Ishizaki

We report the discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission from the Type Ia supernova remnant (SNR) G120.1+1.4, known as Tycho's supernova remnant. Observations performed in the period 2008-2010 with the VERITAS ground-based gamma-ray observatory…

The last ten years a number of observational advances have substantially increased our knowledge of shock phenomena in supernova remnants. This progress has mainly been made possible by the recent improvements in X-ray and Gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jacco Vink

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 apply the non-linear diffusive shock acceleration theory in order to describe the properties of two supernova remnants, SN 1572 (Tycho) and SN 1604 (Kepler). By analyzing the multi-wavelength spectra, we infer that both Tycho's and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Morlino , D. Caprioli

The present article investigates magnetic amplification in the upstream medium of SNR blast wave through both resonant and non-resonant regimes of the streaming instability. It aims at a better understanding of the diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Marcowith , F. Casse

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

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates for the source of cosmic rays, at least to energies up to ~10^14 eV, it is only over the past several years that direct evidence of such energetic particles in SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

The formation of a core collapse supernovae (SNe) results in a fast (but non- or mildly-relativistic) shock wave expanding outwards into the surrounding medium. The medium itself is likely modified due to the stellar mass-loss from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-04 Vikram V. Dwarkadas , M. Renaud , A. Marcowith , V. Tatischeff

Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) are important (and perhaps the dominant) agents for production of the Galactic cosmic rays. Recent $\gamma$-ray observations of several SNRs have made this case more compelling. However, these broadband…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Siming Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi

Recent discovery of the X-ray neutral iron line (Fe I K\alpha at 6.40 keV) around several supernova remnants (SNRs) show that MeV cosmic-ray (CR) protons are distributed around the SNRs and are interacting with neutral gas there. We propose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Ken Makino , Yutaka Fujita , Kumiko Nobukawa , Hironori Matsumoto , Yutaka Ohira

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are likely sources of hadronic particle acceleration within our galaxy, contributing to the galactic cosmic ray flux. Next-generation instruments, such as the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nick Scharrer , Samuel T. Spencer , Vikas Joshi , Alison M. W. Mitchell