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We investigated in detail the morphology at low radio frequencies of the supernova remnant IC443 and accurately established its radio continuum spectral properties. We used the VLA in multiple configurations to produce high resolution radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Castelletti , G. Dubner , T. Clarke , N. E. Kassim

Recent observations of the supernova remnant W44 by the \emph{Fermi} spacecraft observatory strongly support the idea that the bulk of galactic cosmic rays is accelerated in such remnants by a Fermi mechanism, also known as diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-04 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , R. Z. Sagdeev

We report on the likely detection of gamma-ray emission from the supernova remnant (SNR) Kesteven 27 (Kes 27). We analyze 5.7 yr Fermi Large Area Telescope data of the SNR region and find an unresolved source at a position consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen

We report the discovery of high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission in the vicinity of G213.0-0.6, which is debated as a supernova remnant (SNR) or an ionized hydrogen (H$_{\rm{II}}$) region. Using 16-yr Pass 8 data from Fermi Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Yuan Li , Gwenael Giacinti , Siming Liu

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

Kes 41 is among the Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) proposed to be physically linked to $\gamma$-ray emission at GeV energies. Although not conclusively, the nature of the $\gamma$-ray photons has been explained by means of hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Leonardo Supan , Gabriela Castelletti , Alberto D. Supanitsky , Michael G. Burton

The giant molecular clouds (MCs) found in the Milky Way and similar galaxies play a crucial role in the evolution of these systems. The supernova explosions that mark the death of massive stars in these regions often lead to interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. Slane , A. Bykov , D. C. Ellison , G. Dubner , D. Castro

If supernova remnants (SNRs) are the sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, the associated nuclear interactions should result in observable fluxes of TeV gamma-rays from the nearest SNRs. Measurements of the gamma-ray flux from six nearby,…

There are only few very-high-energy sources in our Galaxy which might accelerate particles up to the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum. To understand the mechanisms of particle acceleration in these PeVatron candidates, \textit{Fermi}-LAT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 A. Mares , M. Lemoine-Goumard , F. Acero , C. J. Clark , J. Devin , S. Gabici , J. D. Gelfand , D. A. Green , M. -H. Grondin

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

This paper discusses several aspects of current research on high energy emission from supernova remnants, covering the following main topics: 1) The recent evidence for magnetic field amplification near supernova remnant shocks, which makes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacco Vink

We present the analysis of 9.7 years Fermi-LAT data of the middle-aged supernova remnant W44 and the massive molecular gas complex that surrounds it. We derived a high-quality spectral energy distribution of gamma-radiation of the shell…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-10 Giada Peron , Felix Aharonian , Sabrina Casanova , Roberta Zanin , Carlo Romoli

A Chandra observation of the isolated hard X-ray source XMMU J061804.3+222732, located in the region of apparent interaction of the supernova remnant IC 443 with a molecular cloud, resolved the complex structure of the source in a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Bykov , F. Bocchino , G. G. Pavlov

While supernova remnants (SNRs) are widely thought to be powerful accelerators, evidence comes largely from a small number of well-studied cases. Here we systematically determine the gamma-ray emission from all known Galactic SNRs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 J. W. Hewitt , F. Acero , T. J. Brandt , J. Cohen , F. de Palma , F. Giordano

The remnant of supernova explosion is widely believed to be the acceleration site of high-energy cosmic ray particles. The acceleration timescale is, however, typically very long. Here we report the detection of a variable $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 Qiang Yuan , Neng-Hui Liao , Yu-Liang Xin , Ye Li , Yi-Zhong Fan , Bing Zhang , Hong-Bo Hu , Xiao-Jun Bi

It is thought that Galactic cosmic ray (CR) nuclei are gradually accelerated to high energies (up to ~300 TeV/nucleon, where 1TeV=10^12eV) in the expanding shock-waves connected with the remnants of powerful supernova explosions. However,…

Supernova remnants act as particle accelerators, providing the cosmic-ray protons that permeate the interstellar medium and initiate the ion-molecule reactions that drive interstellar chemistry. Enhanced fluxes of cosmic-ray protons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 Nick Indriolo

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

We analyze more than 15 years of the \gr\ data, obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard {\it the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, for the region of the young supernova remnant (SNR) RCW~103, since the nearby source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Dong Zheng

Due to observations made by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory over the last six years, it appears that a number of galactic supernova remnants may be candidates for sources of cosmic gamma-rays. These include shell-type remnants such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ocker C. de Jager , Matthew G. Baring