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Aims. We introduce the SISSI (Supernovae In a Stratified, Shearing Interstellar medium) simulation suite, which aims to enable a more comprehensive understanding of supernova remnants (SNRs) evolving in a complex interstellar medium (ISM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Leonard E. C. Romano , Manuel Behrendt , Andreas Burkert

The escape process of particles accelerated at supernova remnant (SNR) shocks is one of the poorly understood aspects of the shock acceleration theory. Here we adopt a phenomenological approach to study the particle escape and its impact on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Silvia Celli , Giovanni Morlino , Stefano Gabici , Felix Aharonian

We present the largest extragalactic survey of supernova remnant (SNR) candidates in nearby star-forming galaxies using exquisite spectroscopic maps from MUSE. Supernova remnants exhibit distinctive emission-line ratios and kinematic…

Observations of young supernova remnants (SNRs) in X-rays and gamma-rays have provided conclusive evidence for particle acceleration to at least TeV energies. Analysis of high spatial resolution X-ray maps of young SNRs has indicated that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-12 Andrei M. Bykov , Yury A. Uvarov , Patrick Slane , Donald C. Ellison

One of the outstanding mysteries surrounding the rich diversity found in supernova remnants (SNRs) is the recent discovery of over-ionized or recombining plasma from a number of dynamically evolved objects. To help decipher its formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Miho Katsuragawa , Shiu-Hang Lee , Hirokazu Odaka , Aya Bamba , Hideaki Matsumura , Tadayuki Takahashi

We explore the role of anisotropic thermal conduction on the evolution of supernova remnants through interstellar media with a range of densities via numerical simulations. We find that a remnant expanding in a dense environment can produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David A. Tilley , Dinshaw S. Balsara , J. Christopher Howk

The sources of turbulence in our Galaxy may be diverse, but core-collapse supernovae (SNe) alone provide enough energy to sustain a steady-state galactic turbulence cascade at the observed velocity dispersion. By localizing and analyzing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 James R. Beattie

Supernova explosions are inherently asymmetric and can accelerate new-born neutron stars (NSs) to hundreds of km/s. Two prevailing theories to explain NS kicks are ejecta asymmetries (e.g., conservation of momentum between NS and ejecta)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Tyler Holland-Ashford , Laura A. Lopez , Katie Auchettl , Tea Temim , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

In the context of 2D, axisymmetric, multi-group, radiation/hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae over the full 180$^{\circ}$ domain, we present an exploration of the progenitor dependence of the acoustic mechanism of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Burrows , E. Livne , L. Dessart , C. D. Ott , J. Murphy

Synchrotron X-rays can be a useful tool to investigate electron acceleration at young supernova remnants (SNRs). At present, since the magnetic field configuration around the shocks of SNRs is uncertain, it is not clear whether electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-23 Ryo Yamazaki , Yutaka Ohira , Makoto Sawada , Aya Bamba

We study the radio emission from young supernova remnants by means of 3D numerical MHD simulations of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the shell of the remnant. The computation is carried out in spherical polar coordinates ($r, \theta,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Byung-Il Jun , Michael L. Norman

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) occurs at the interface of two media when the heavier fluid is accelerated into the lighter fluid and is a prototypical hydrodynamic event present in many physical events. In high energy physics, this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-03 Prasannabalaji Sundaram , Aditi Sengupta , Tapan K. Sengupta

Recent hydrodynamical models of supernova remnants (SNRs) demonstrate that their evolution depends heavily on the inhomogeneities of the surrounding medium. As SNRs expand, their morphologies are influenced by the non-uniform and turbulent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Jennifer N. Stafford , Laura A. Lopez , Katie Auchettl , Tyler Holland-Ashford

We examine the hypothesis that some supernova remnants (SNRs) may be responsible for some unidentified gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. If this is the case, gamma-rays are produced via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Hnatyk , O. Petruk

We report the discovery of optical emission from the non-radiative shocked ejecta of three young Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs): SNR 0519-69.0, SNR 0509-67.5, and N103B. Deep integral field spectroscopic observations reveal broad and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Parviz Ghavamian , J. Martin Laming , Frédéric P. A. Vogt

The remnants of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) have complex morphologies that may reflect asymmetries and structures developed during the progenitor SN explosion. Here we investigate how the morphology of the SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 S. Orlando , M. Miceli , M. L. Pumo , F. Bocchino

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered as being the sources of galactic cosmic rays. In order to understand the origin, acceleration, and composition of these cosmic rays, detailed knowledge of the physical conditions in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-24 Sibylle Anderl , Antoine Gusdorf , Rolf Güsten

Mixed-morphology supernova remnants (MMSNRs) are characterized by a shell-like morphology in the radio and centrally-peaked thermal emission in the X-ray band. The nature of this peculiar class of supernova remnants (SNRs) remains a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-01 Alexandros Chiotellis , Emmanouil Zapartas , Dominique M. -A. Meyer

Thermal X-ray spectra from supernova remnants (SNRs) are dominated by a number of line emission from various elements. Resolving the individual lines is critically important for a variety of scientific topics such as diagnosing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Satoru Katsuda

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are known to accelerate particles to relativistic energies, on account of their nonthermal emission. The observational progress from radio to gamma-ray observations reveals more and more morphological features that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Robert Brose , Martin Pohl , Iurii Sushch