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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

We discuss the generic characteristics of stochastic particle acceleration by a fully developed turbulence spectrum and show that resonant interactions of particles with high speed waves dominate the acceleration process. To produce the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siming Liu , Zhong-Hui Fan , Christopher L. Fryer

A new numerical code, designed for the detailed numerical treatment of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration, is used for modeling of particle acceleration and radiation in young supernova remnants. The model is based on spherically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 V. N. Zirakashvili , F. A. Aharonian

Although supernova remnants remain the main suspects as sources of Galactic cosmic rays up to the knee, the supernova paradigm still has many loose ends. The weakest point in this construction is the possibility that individual supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 P. Cristofari , P. Blasi , E. Amato

Context: Multiwavelength observations of supernova remnants can be explained within the framework of the diffusive shock acceleration theory, which allows effective conversion of the explosion energy into cosmic rays. Although the models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. O'C. Drury , F. A. Aharonian , D. Malyshev , S. Gabici

Supernova remnants are one potential source class considered a PeVatron (i.e. capable of accelerating cosmic rays above PeV energies). The shock fronts produced after the explosion of the supernova are ideal regions for particle…

When a core-collapse supernova explodes in a binary star system, the ejecta might encounter an overdense shell, where the stellar winds of the two stars previously collided. In this work, we investigate effects of such interactions on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Ondřej Pejcha , Diego Calderón , Petr Kurfürst

New evidence that cosmic rays (hadronic component) are accelerated by supernova remnant shocks all the way from low energies to high energies, has come from recent works combining gamma-ray observations in the sub-GeV to TeV domain on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-09 Stefano Gabici , Thierry Montmerle

Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we investigate general properties of a blast wave shock interacting with interstellar clouds. The shock-cloud interaction generates a turbulent shell through the vorticity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Yasuo Fukui

Young supernova remnants are thought to be the sites where cosmic ray acceleration occurs by the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration. The maximum energy gained in this process is conventionally extimated to have a value close to, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. O'C. Drury , E. van der Swaluw , O. Carroll

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

Recent gamma ray observations show that middle aged supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds can be sources of both GeV and TeV emission. Models involving re-acceleration of pre-existing cosmic rays in the ambient medium and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

Hydrodynamical simulations are presented of a pulsar wind emitted by a supersonically moving pulsar. The pulsar moves through the interstellar medium or, in the more interesting case, through the supernova remnant created at its birth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. van der Swaluw , A. Achterberg , Y. A. Gallant , T. P. Downes , R. Keppens

The explosion of a core collapse supernova drives a powerful shock front into the wind from the progenitor star. A layer of shocked circumstellar gas and ejecta develops that is subject to hydrodynamic instabilities. The hot gas can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Roger A. Chevalier , Claes Fransson

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely believed to be the principal source of galactic cosmic rays. Such energetic particles can produce gamma-rays and lower energy photons via interactions with the ambient plasma. In this paper, we present…

Numerous astrophysical shock waves evolve in an environment where the radiative cooling behind the shock affects the hydrodynamical structure downstream, thereby influencing the potential for particle acceleration via diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Pierre Cristofari

We examine the case where a circumstellar medium around a supernova is sufficiently opaque that a radiation dominated shock propagates in the circumstellar region. The initial propagation of the shock front into the circumstellar region can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Roger A. Chevalier , Christopher M. Irwin

Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) accelerate charged particles up to 100 TeV range via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. It is believed that shocks of SNRs are the main contributors to the pool of Galactic cosmic rays,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Jacco Vink , Aya Bamba

We explore nonlinear effects of wave-particle interactions on the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) process in Type Ia-like, SNR blast waves, by implementing phenomenological models for magnetic field amplification, Alfv'enic drift, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Hyesung Kang , T. W. Jones , Paul P. Edmon

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