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We present polarization observations of the young supernova remnant (SNR) Cas A using the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus (HAWC+) instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The…

Supernova remnants may exhibit both thermal and nonthermal X-ray emission. We present Chandra observations of RCW 86. Striking differences in the morphology of X-rays below 1 keV and above 2 keV point to a different physical origin. Hard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeonghee Rho , Kristy K. Dyer , Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Stephen P. Reynolds

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) arise from the thermonuclear explosion of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs. Though the uniformity of their light curves makes them powerful cosmological distance indicators, long-standing issues remain regarding their…

We aim to study the spatial distribution of the physical and chemical properties of the X-ray emitting plasma of the supernova remnant G272.2-3.2, in order to get important constraints on its ionization stage, on the progenitor supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Sánchez-Ayaso , J. A. Combi , F. Bocchino , J. F. Albacete-Colombo , J. López-Santiago , J. Martí , E. Castro

For supernova powered by the conversion of kinetic energy into radiation due to the interactions of the ejecta with a dense circumstellar shell, we show that there could be X-ray analogues of optically super-luminous SNe with comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Tony Pan , Daniel J. Patnaude , Abraham Loeb

We use 3D hydrodynamical numerical simulations and show that jittering bipolar jets that power core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions channel further accretion onto the newly born neutron star (NS) such that consecutive bipolar jets tend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Oded Papish , Noam Soker

We will present the multi-wavelength modeling of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A's shell based on radio, X-rays, and GeV-TeV gamma rays. Our aim is to estimate the location of TeV gamma rays with the help of spectral analysis of X-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-22 T. Ergin , L. Saha , P. Majumdar , M. Bozkurt , E. N. Ercan

Cassiopeia A the youngest supernova remnant known in the Milky Way is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky and a unique laboratory for supernova physics. Although its compact remnant was discovered in 1999 by the Chandra X-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Nissim Fraija , C. Giovanny Bernal

We study the effects of jet-like explosion in SN 1987A. Calculations of the explosive nucleosynthesis and the matter mixing in a jet-like explosion are performed and their results are compared with the observations of SN 1987A. It is shown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 S. Nagataki

The elemental abundances of the Fe-peak elements (such as Cr, Mn, Fe and Ni) and Ti are important for understanding the environment of explosive nuclear burning for the core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe). In particular, the supernova remnant…

We present the results from deep X-ray observations (~400 ks in total) of SN 1006 by the X-ray astronomy satellite Suzaku. The thermal spectrum from the entire supernova remnant (SNR) exhibits prominent emission lines of O, Ne, Mg, Si, S,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Hiroyuki Uchida , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Katsuji Koyama

We examine observed heavy element abundances in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant as a constraint on the nature of the Cas A supernova. We compare bulk abundances from 1D and 3D explosion models and spatial distribution of elements in 3D…

We report optical and near-infrared observations of SN 2012ca with the Public ESO Spectroscopy Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO), spread over one year since discovery. The supernova (SN) bears many similarities to SN 1997cy and to other…

Observations of the SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) show asymmetries in the reverse shock that cannot be explained by models describing a remnant expanding through a spherically symmetric wind of the progenitor star. We investigate whether a past…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 S. Orlando , A. Wongwathanarat , H. -T. Janka , M. Miceli , S. Nagataki , M. Ono , F. Bocchino , J. Vink , D. Milisavljevic , D. J. Patnaude , G. Peres

Supernovae (SNe) are thought to arise from two different physical processes. The cores of massive, short-lived stars undergo gravitational core collapse and typically eject a few solar masses during their explosion. These are thought to…

The three-dimensional velocity structure of the shock-heated Si-reach and S-reach ejecta were reconstructed in Tycho supernova remnant from Doppler-shifted lines. The vector components along the line of sight were restored from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-06 O. Petruk , M. Patrii , T. Kuzyo , A. Baldyniuk , V. Marchenko , V. Beshley

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of weak jets that we launch into a core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) ejecta half an hour after the explosion and find that the interaction of the fast jets with the CCSN ejecta creates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

The recent survey of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (CasA) with the MIRI instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed a large structure in the interior region, referred to as the "Green Monster".…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-21 Jacco Vink , Manan Agarwal , Patrick Slane , Ilse de Looze , Dan Milisavljevic , Dan Patnaude , Tea Temim

The recent detection of a hard X-ray component in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is interpreted as synchrotron emission from electrons accelerated to energies up to 40 TeV (Allen et al., 1997). It is therefore tempting to consider TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Goret , C. Gouiffes , E. Nuss , D. C. Ellison

I review studies of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and similar transient events that attribute major roles to jets in powering most CCSNe and in shaping their ejecta. I start with reviewing the jittering jets explosion mechanism that I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Noam Soker