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Hydrodynamical interaction of spherical ejecta freely expanding at mildly relativistic speeds into an ambient cold medium is studied in semi-analytical and numerical ways to investigate how ejecta produced in energetic stellar explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda , Toshikazu Shigeyama

During its early evolution, a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) sweeps the inner part of the supernova ejecta and forms a thin massive shell. Later on, when the shell has been reached by the reverse shock of the supernova remnant, the evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 R. Bandiera , N. Bucciantini , J. Martín , B. Olmi , D. F. Torres

We examine the evolution and emission of the supernova remnant (SNR) CTB109 using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations. The SNR evolves in a medium divided by a plane interface into two media with different densities and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Castellanos-Ramírez , P. F. Velázquez , J. Cantó

In a supernova explosion, the ejecta interacting with the surrounding circumstellar medium (CSM) give rise to variety of radiation. Since CSM is created from the mass lost from the progenitor star, it carries footprints of the late time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Poonam Chandra

The breakout of a supernova shock wave through the progenitor star's outer envelope is expected to appear as an X-ray flash. However, if the supernova explodes inside an optically-thick wind, the breakout flash is delayed. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Shmuel Balberg , Abraham Loeb

The explosion of a supernovae (SN) represents the sudden injection of about 10^51 ergs of thermal and mechanical energy in a small region of space, causing the formation of powerful shock waves that propagate through the interstellar medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-04 Gloria Dubner

Circumstellar interaction of supernova (SN) ejecta is an essential process in its evolution and observations of SNe have found the signature of circumstellar interaction both in the early and late evolutionary phase of SNe. In this Letter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Tomoki Matsuoka , Keiichi Maeda , Ke-Jung Chen

We explore the evolution of thermonuclear supernova explosions when the progenitor white dwarf star ignites asymmetrically off-center. Several numerical simulations are carried out in two and three dimensions to test the consequences of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 F. K. Roepke , S. E. Woosley

While the environment around Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) has long been believed to be close to homogeneous, the latest analysis of Chandra data has identified a substantial deceleration of the forward shock which poses a major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Ryosuke Kobashi , Shiu-Hang Lee , Takaaki Tanaka , Keiichi Maeda

We present theoretical semi-analytic models for the interaction of stellar winds with the interstellar medium (ISM) or prior mass loss implemented in our code SPICE (Supernovae Progenitor Interaction Calculator for parameterized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Paul Dragulin , Peter Hoeflich

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be one of the major acceleration sites of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) and an important class of objects for high-energy astrophysics. SNRs produce multi-wavelength, non-thermal emission via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

We present a systematic phenomenological study focused on the time evolution of the non-thermal radiation - from radio waves to gamma rays - emitted by typical supernova remnants via hadronic and leptonic mechanisms, for two classes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Daniele Gaggero , Fabio Zandanel , Pierre Cristofari , Stefano Gabici

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the "knee" in CR spectrum. During the evolution of a SNR, the bulk of the CRs are confined inside the SNR shell. The highest-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 I. Telezhinsky , V. V. Dwarkadas , M. Pohl

The study of core-collapse supernova remnants (SNRs) presents a fascinating puzzle, with intricate morphologies and a non-uniform distribution of stellar debris. Particularly, young remnants (aged less than 5000 years) hold immense value as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Salvatore Orlando

About 15%-60% of all supernova remnants are estimated to interact with dense molecular clouds. In these high density environments, radiative losses are significant. The cooling radiation can be observed in forbidden lines at optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-25 P. Smirnova , E. I. Makarenko , S. D. Clarke , E. Glukhov , S. Walch , I. Vaezzadeh , D. Seifried

Magnetar-powered supernova explosions are competitive models for explaining very luminous optical transits. However, these explosion models were mainly calculated in 1D. Radiation emitted from the magnetar snowplows into the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-22 Ke-Jung Chen

Polarization has been detected at early times for all types of supernova, indicating that such systems result from or quickly develop some form of asymmetry. In addition, the detection of strong line polarization in supernovae is suggestive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. T. Hole , D. Kasen , K. H. Nordsieck

We present a model of gamma-ray emission from core-collapse supernovae originating from the explosions of massive young stars. The fast forward shock of the supernova remnant (SNR) can accelerate particles by diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov

Multiband observations on the type Ia supernova remnant SN 1006 indicate peculiar properties in its morphologies of emission in the radio, optical and X-ray bands. In the hard X-rays, the remnant is bilateral with two opposite bright limbs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Jun Fang , Jingwen Yan , Lu Wen , Chunyan Lu , Huan Yu

Multiwavelength observations of Type II supernovae have shown evidence for the interaction of supernovae with the dense slow winds from the red supergiant progenitor stars. Observations of planetary nebulae and the nebula around SN 1987A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 John M. Blondin , P. Lundqvist , Roger A. Chevalier
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