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Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) play an important role in our understanding of supernovae and their feedback on the interstellar environment. SNR G352.7$-$0.1 is special for its thermal composite morphology and double-ring structure. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-24 Qian-Qian Zhang , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen , Xiao Zhang , Wen-Juan Zhong , Xin Zhou , Zhi-Yu Zhang , Jacco Vink

While various methods have been proposed to disentangle the progenitor system for Type Ia supernovae, their origin is still unclear. Circumstellar environment is a key to distinguishing between the double-degenerate (DD) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Hiroyuki Uchida , Tomoaki Kasuga , Keiichi Maeda , Shiu-Hang Lee , Takaaki Tanaka , Aya Bamba

This work reports on the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission coincident with the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR G5.7-0.1 using data collected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The SNR is believed to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Timothy Joubert , Daniel Castro , Patrick Slane , Joseph Gelfand

Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if cosmic rays can leave the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Gabici , Sabrina Casanova , Felix A. Aharonian

It has long been speculated that supernova remnants represent a major source of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. Observations over the past decade have ceremoniously unveiled direct evidence of particle acceleration in SNRs to energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Patrick Slane

We report the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission likely associated with supernova remnant (SNR) G335.2+0.1 and the finding of a molecular cloud ($\sim20$--$30^\prime$ in angular size) that is very likely in physical contact with the SNR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Chen Huang , Xiao Zhang , Yang Chen , Qian-Qian Zhang , Wen-Juan Zhong , Xin Zhou

It has often been suggested that supernova remnants (SNRs) can trigger star formation. To investigate the relationship between SNRs and star formation, we have examined the known sample of 45 SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud to search for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 K. M. Desai , Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , W. Dluger , M. Katz , T. Wong , C. -H. R. Chen , L. W. Looney , A. Hughes , E. Muller , J. Ott , J. L. Pineda

The spectral slope of the magnetic energy in supernova remnants (SNRs) can be obtained by analysis of spatial two-point correlation functions of synchrotron intensities. This method has been originally developed for the analysis of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jiro Shimoda , Takuya Akahori , A. Lazarian , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yutaka Fujita

We present H$\alpha$ spectroscopic observations and detailed modelling of the Balmer filaments in the supernova remnant Tycho. We used Galaxy H$\alpha$ Fabry-P\'erot Spectrometer on the William Herschel Telescope with a 3.4'$\times$3.4'…

Supernova remnant (SNR) G106.3+2.7 was recently found to be one of the few potential Galactic hadronic PeVatrons. Aiming to test how solid the SNR is associated with the molecular clouds (MCs) that are thought to be responsible for hadronic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Qian-Cheng Liu , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen

Supernova remnant Kes 17 (SNR G304.6+0.1) is one of a few but growing number of remnants detected across the electromagnetic spectrum. In this paper, we analyze recent radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of this object, determining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-28 Joseph D. Gelfand , Daniel Castro , Patrick O. Slane , Tea Temim , John P. Hughes , Cara Rakowski

We present a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray emission from the middle-aged supernova remnant (SNR) S147 (G180.0$-$1.7) using approximately 16.5 years of Fermi-LAT data. Spatially, a new extended $\gamma$-ray component distinct from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Huan Yang , Bing Liu , Houdun Zeng , Xiaoyuan Huang

We report a series of images of the Tycho supernova remnant at eight epochs extending over thirty years: 1986-2016. In addition to our H{\alpha} images, we have obtained matched continuum images which we subtract to reveal faint emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 P. Frank Winkler , Joseph Putko , William P. Blair

A significant fraction of the energy density of the interstellar medium is in the form of high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays). The origin of these particles remains uncertain. Although it is generally accepted that the only sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

We compare the $\gamma$-ray spectra from 10 middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs), which are interacting with molecular clouds (MCs), with the model prediction from widely used escaping scenario and direct interaction scenario. It is found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Xiaping Tang

We present 12mm Mopra observations of dense molecular gas towards the W28 supernova remnant (SNR) field. The focus is on the dense molecular gas towards the TeV gamma-ray sources detected by the H.E.S.S. telescopes, which likely trace the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Nicholas , G. Rowell , M. G. Burton , A. Walsh , Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , S. Longmore , E. Keto

The idea that the shocks from supernova remnants (SNR) expanding into the interstellar medium (ISM) accelerate CR is still popular one but a number of authors have drawn attention to the fact that the experimental evidence for the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

We have carried out 12CO (J=1-0 and 2-1), 13CO (J=1-0), and C18O (J=1-0) observations in the direction of the supernova remnant (SNR) G22.7-0.2. A filamentary molecular gas structure, which is likely part of a larger molecular complex with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Xin Zhou , Ping Zhou , Yang Chen

N103B is a Type Ia supernova remnant (SNR) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We carried out new $^{12}$CO($J$ = 3-2) and $^{12}$CO($J$ = 1-0) observations using ASTE and ALMA. We have confirmed the existence of a giant molecular cloud…

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered as the most promising source class to account for the bulk of the Galactic cosmic-ray flux. Yet amongst the population of ultra-high energy (UHE) sources that has recently emerged, due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-18 A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Celli
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