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Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been suspected to be the primary sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Over the past decades, great strides have been made in the modelling of particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and escape…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Anton Stall , Chun Khai Loo , Philipp Mertsch

The radio evolution of, so far the youngest known, Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3 is investigated by using three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic modelling and non-linear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in SNRs. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Z. Pavlović

Diffusive shock acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is considered one of the prime mechanisms for Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) acceleration. It is still unclear, however, whether SNRs can contribute to GCR spectrum up to the ``knee''…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-06 Victor Doroshenko , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo

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

Self-consistent treatment of time-dependent ionization in hydrodynamical calculations of the X-ray emission from young supernova remnants has been performed. The novel feature of the calculations is that K_alpha lines from species produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. I. Kosenko

We review the major advances in understanding the morphologies and kinematics of supernova remnants (SNRs). Simulations of SN explosions have improved dramatically over the last few years, and SNRs can be used to test models through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Laura A. Lopez , Robert A. Fesen

Recent observations of core-collapse supernovae revealed that the existence of dense circumstellar matter (CSM) around their progenitors is ubiquitous. Interaction of supernova ejecta with such a dense CSM is a potential production sight of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 Shigeo S. Kimura , Takashi J. Moriya

Recent precise measurements of cosmic ray (CR) spectra show that the energy distribution of protons is softer than those of heavier nuclei, and there are spectral hardenings for all nuclear compositions above $\sim$200 GV. Models proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu , Qiang Yuan

We have extended a simple model of nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration (Berezhko and Ellison 1999) to include the injection and acceleration of electrons and the production of photons from bremsstrahlung, synchrotron, inverse-Compton,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Donald C. Ellison , Evgeny G. Berezhko , Matthew G. Baring

We present a spherically symmetric, core-collapse model of SNR RX J1713.7-3946 that includes a hydrodynamic simulation of the remnant evolution coupled to the efficient production of cosmic rays (CRs) by nonlinear diffusive shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Donald C. Ellison , Patrick Slane , Daniel J. Patnaude , Andrei M. Bykov

The contribution of galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) to the origin of cosmic rays (CRs) is an important open question in modern astrophysics. Broadband non-thermal emission is a useful proxy for probing the energy budget and production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Ryosuke Kobashi , Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been suspected to be the primary sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Over the past decades, great strides have been made in the modelling of particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and escape…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Chun Khai Loo , Philipp Mertsch

Supernova remnant (SNR) shocks provide favourable sites of cosmic ray (CR) proton acceleration if the local magnetic field direction is quasi-parallel to the shock normal. Using the moving-mesh magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) code AREPO we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Matteo Pais , Christoph Pfrommer

Shocks of supernova remnants (SNRs) accelerate charged particles up to 100 TeV range via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. It is believed that shocks of SNRs are the main contributors to the pool of Galactic cosmic rays,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Jacco Vink , Aya Bamba

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

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the most important acceleration sites for cosmic rays (CRs) below $\sim10^{15}$ eV in the Galaxy. High energy photons, either directly from the shocks of the SNRs or indirectly from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ye Liu , Zhen Cao , Songzhan Chen , Yang Chen , Shuwang Cui , Huihai He , Xingtao Huang , Xinhua Ma , Qiang Yuan , Xiao Zhang

We compute the energy spectra of antideuterons and antihelium in cosmic rays (CRs) in a scenario where hadronic interactions inside supernova remnants (SNRs) can produce a diffusively-shock-accelerated "source component" of secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

The nonlinear kinetic model of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) is used to describe the relevant properties of Cassiopeia A (Cas A). In order to reproduce the SNR's observed size, expansion rate and thermal X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 E. G. Berezhko , G. Puehlhofer , H. J. Voelk