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We investigate the escape process of cosmic rays (CRs) from perpendicular shock regions of a spherical shock propagating to a circumstellar medium with the Parker-spiral magnetic field. The diffusive shock acceleration in perpendicular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 Shoma F. Kamijima , Yutaka Ohira

We performed kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). The preshock gas temperature is the primary parameter that governs the cosmic ray (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-20 Hyesung Kang

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

We investigate escape of cosmic ray (CR) electrons from a supernova remnant (SNR) to interstellar space. We show that CR electrons escape in order from high energies to low energies like CR nuclei, while the escape starts later than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki , Norita Kawanaka , Kunihito Ioka

We study the escape of cosmic-ray (CR) protons accelerated at a supernova remnant (SNR) by numerically solving a diffusion-convection equation from the vicinity of the shock front to the region far away from the front. We consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Yutaka Fujita , Fumio Takahara , Yutaka Ohira , Kazunari Iwasaki

We have calculated the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration at young remnants from Type Ia supernovae expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Adopting quasi-parallel magnetic fields, gasdynamic equations and the diffusion convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyesung Kang

Galactic cosmic ray (CR) acceleration to the knee in the spectrum at a few PeV is only possible if the magnetic field ahead of a supernova remnant (SNR) shock is strongly amplified by CR escaping the SNR. A model formulated in terms of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 AR Bell , KM Schure , B Reville , G Giacinti

Stationary solutions to the problem of particle acceleration at shock waves in the non-linear regime, when the dynamical reaction of the accelerated particles on the shock cannot be neglected, are known to show a prominent energy flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Caprioli , P. Blasi , E. Amato

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

The spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs) is affected by their escape from an acceleration site. This may have been observed not only in the gamma-ray spectrum of young supernova remnants (SNRs) such as RX J1713.7-3946, but also in the spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yutaka Ohira , Kohta Murase , Ryo Yamazaki

We analyse the results of recent measurements of nonthermal emission from individual supernova remnants (SNRs) and their correspondence to the nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs. It is shown that the theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. G. Berezhko

We discuss the acceleration and escape of secondary particles, especially positrons produced by hadronic interactions in a supernova remnant (SNR) shock. During the shock acceleration, protons would interact with ambient gas and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-01 Norita Kawanaka

Identifying the accelerators of Galactic cosmic ray protons (CRs) with energies up to a few PeV ($10^{15}$ eV) remains a theoretical and observational challenge. Supernova remnants (SNRs) represent strong candidates, as they provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Rebecca Diesing

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

The origin of cosmic rays in our Galaxy remains a subject of active debate. While supernova remnant shocks are often invoked as the sites of acceleration, it is now widely accepted that the difficulties of such sources in reaching PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Giovanni Morlino , Pasquale Blasi , Enrico Peretti , Pierre Cristofari

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants via diffusive shock acceleration. Though this mechanism gives fairly robust predictions for the spectrum of particles accelerated at the shock, the spectrum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-25 Stefano Gabici

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

We investigate the appearance of magnetic field amplification resulting from a cosmic ray escape current in the context of supernova remnant shock waves. The current is inversely proportional to the maximum energy of cosmic rays, and is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 K. M. Schure , A. R. Bell

We develop a theory to account for the cosmic ray spectrum between 1 GeV and 10^4 GeV following the earlier papers of this series. We use the basic concept that the cosmic ray particles are accelerated in a supernova shock that travels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Richard G. Strom

We investigate the attainable maximum energy of particles accelerated in the core-collapse supernova remnant (SNR) shock propagating in the free wind region with the Parker-spiral magnetic field, current sheet, and the wind termination…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Shoma F. Kamijima , Yutaka Ohira
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