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In spite of their importance as standard candles in cosmology and as major major sites of nucleosynthesis in the Universe, what kinds of progenitor systems lead to type Ia supernovae (SN) remains a subject of considerable debate in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-08 Takaaki Tanaka , Tomoyuki Okuno , Hiroyuki Uchida , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Shiu-Hang Lee , Keiichi Maeda , Brian J. Williams

We investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) towards seven TeV gamma-ray sources thought to be pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) using Mopra molecular line observations at 7mm [CS(1-0), SiO(1-0,v=0)], Nanten CO(1-0) data and the SGPS/GASS HI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-10 F. J. Voisin , G. P. Rowell , M. G. Burton , Y. Fukui , H. Sano , F. Aharonian , N. Maxted , C. Braiding , R. Blackwell , J. Lau

The youngest known Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3 has high-velocity supernova shock beyond 10000 km s-1, and it is considered to be one of the major candidates of a PeVatron. Despite these outstanding properties, the surrounding…

The consequences of a newly suggested value for the SN explosion energy 1.2x10^{51} erg are explored for the case of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR). A nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs is employed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-21 H. J. Voelk , E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov

Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) has a periphery which clearly deviates from spherical shape bash on the X-ray and radio observations. The forward shock from the southeast to the north of the remnant has a relatively deformed outline with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Jun Fang , Huan Yu , Li Zhang

We investigate the molecular environment of the supernova remnant (SNR) Kesteven 67 (G18.8+0.3) using observations in $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, HCO$^+$,and HCN lines and possible associated $\gamma$-ray emission using 16-yr Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-13 Yun-Zhi Shen , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Tian-Yu Tu , Wen-Juan Zhong , Qian-Qian Zhang , Qian-Cheng Liu

We report a possible $\gamma$-ray enhancement event detected from Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR), the outcome of a type Ia supernova explosion that occurred in year 1572. The event lasted for 1.5 years and showed a factor of 3.6 flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen

Using high-resolution data of the $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO ($J$=1-0}) line emission from The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey in conjunction with neutral hydrogen observations from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-15 Leonardo Supán , Gabriela Castelletti , Alberto D. Supanitsky , Michael G. Burton , Graeme F. Wong , Catherine Braiding

By using surface brightness maps of Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) in radio and X-rays, along with the properties of thermal and synchrotron emission, we have derived the post-shock density and magnetic field strength distributions over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Oleh Petruk , Taras Kuzyo , Mariana Patrii , Laura Chomiuk , Maria Arias , Marco Miceli , Salvatore Orlando , Fabrizio Bocchino

The Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) IC443 is one of the most studied core-collapse SNRs for its interaction with molecular clouds. However, the ambient molecular clouds with which IC443 is interacting have not been thoroughly studied and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Jae-Joon Lee , Bon-Chul Koo , Ronald L. Snell , Min S. Yun , Mark H. Heyer , Michael G. Burton

Most old supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Milky Way have not yet been identified. Considering their large potential number and the sufficient momentum-energy transfer to the interstellar medium (ISM), they are a key part of our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-07 Xin Zhou , Yang Su , Ji Yang , Yang Chen , Zhibo Jiang

The eastern border of the SNR G18.8+0.3, close to an HII regions complex, is a very interesting region to study the molecular gas that it is probably in contact with the SNR shock front. We observed the aforementioned region using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Paron , M. E. Ortega , A. Petriella , M. Rubio , G. Dubner , E. Giacani

Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) is well-established as a source of particle acceleration to very high energies. Constraints from numerous studies indicate that the observed gamma-ray emission results primarily from hadronic processes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Slane , S. -H. Lee , D. C. Ellison , D. J. Patnaude , J. P. Hughes , K. A. Eriksen , D. Castro , S. Nagataki

Supernova remnants (SNRs) can exert strong influence on molecular clouds (MCs) through interaction by shock wave and cosmic rays. In this paper, we present our mapping observation of HCO+ and HCN 1-0 lines towards 13 SNRs interacting with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 Tian-Yu Tu , Yang Chen , Qian-Cheng Liu

Aims: We investigate the spatial distribution of dust emission around Tycho's SNR to understand its origin. We distinguish the dust associated with the SNR from that of the surrounding ISM. Methods: We performed mid- to far-infrared imaging…

Molecular clouds are known to be clumpy, with dense molecular clumps occupying only a few percent of the volume. A supernova remnant then evolves primarily in the interclump medium, and becomes radiative at a radius of about 6 pc, forming a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Roger A. Chevalier

3C 397 is a radio and X-ray bright Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) with an unusual rectangular morphology. Our CO observation obtained with the Purple Mountain Observatory at Delingha reveals that the remnant is well confined in a cavity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Bing Jiang , Yang Chen , Junzhi Wang , Yang Su , Xin Zhou , Samar Safi-Harb , Tracey DeLaney

A nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is used to describe the properties of Tycho's SNR. Observations of the expansion characteristics and of the nonthermal radio and X-ray emission spectra,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Voelk , E. G. Berezhko , L. T. Ksenofontov , G. P. Rowell

Very recent gamma-ray observations of G120.1+1.4 (Tycho's) supernova remnant (SNR) by Fermi-LAT and VERITAS provided new fundamental pieces of information for understanding particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in SNRs. We want to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Morlino , D. Caprioli

We review recent progress in elucidating the relationship between high-energy radiation and the interstellar medium (ISM) in young supernova remnants (SNRs) with ages of $\sim$2000 yr, focusing in particular on RX J1713.7$-$3946 and RCW 86.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-29 Hidetoshi Sano , Yasuo Fukui