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We investigate the transport of spectrally resolved cosmic ray (CR) protons with kinetic energies between $1-100$ GeV within the dynamic, multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), using a two-moment CR fluid solver applied to a TIGRESS MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Nora B. Linzer

The supernova paradigm for the origin of galactic cosmic rays has been deeply affected by the development of the non-linear theory of particle acceleration at shock waves. Here we discuss the implications of applying such theory to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

Context. Observation of Balmer lines from the region around the forward shock of supernova remnants (SNR) may provide valuable information on the shock dynamics and the efficiency of particle acceleration at the shock. Aims. We calculated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Morlino , P. Blasi , R. Bandiera , E. Amato

Cosmic ray acceleration in turbulent interstellar medium is considered. Turbulence is treated as ensemble of moving magnetic traps. We derive equations for particle momentum distribution function that describes acceleration of particles in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Zirakashvili

Cosmic rays are the most energetic particles arriving at earth. Although most of them are thought to be accelerated by supernova remnants, the details of the acceleration process and its efficiency are not well determined. Here we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-26 E. A. Helder , J. Vink , C. G. Bassa , A. Bamba , J. A. M. Bleeker , S. Funk , P. Ghavamian , K. J. van der Heyden , F. Verbunt , R. Yamazaki

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the source of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). SNR shocks accelerate CR protons and electrons which reveal key insights into the non-thermal physics by means of their synchrotron and $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-08 Georg Winner , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Maria Werhahn , Matteo Pais

We show that a purely kinetic approach to the excitation of waves by cosmic rays in the vicinity of a shock front leads to predict the appearance of a non-alfv\'enic fastly growing mode which has the same dispersion relation as that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

Energetic gamma rays (GeV to TeV photon energy) have been detected toward several supernova remnants (SNR) that are associated with molecular clouds. If the gamma rays are produced mainly by hadronic processes rather than leptonic processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Schuppan , J. Becker Tjus , J. H. Black , S. Casanova , M. Mandelartz

Diffusive shock acceleration is the prime candidate for efficient acceleration of cosmic rays. Galactic cosmic rays are believed to originate predominantly from this process in supernova remnant shock waves. Confinement of the cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-07 K. M. Schure , A. R. Bell

We study cosmic-ray acceleration in a supernova remnant (SNR) and the escape from it. We model nonthermal particle and photon spectra for the hidden SNR in the open cluster Westerlund 2, and the old-age mixed-morphology SNR W 28. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

Supernova Remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the main source of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The strong SNR shocks provide ideal acceleration sites for particles of at least 10^14 eV/nucleon. Radio continuum studies of SNRs carried out with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 G. Dubner

Although supernova remnants remain the main suspects as sources of Galactic cosmic rays up to the knee, the supernova paradigm still has many loose ends. The weakest point in this construction is the possibility that individual supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 P. Cristofari , P. Blasi , E. Amato

We present evidence for cosmic ray acceleration at the forward shock in Tycho's supernova remnant (SNR) from three X-ray observables: (1) the proximity of the contact discontinuity to the forward shock, or blast wave, (2) the morphology of…

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a dynamically important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. The $\sim$GeV CRs that carry most CR energy and pressure are likely confined by self-generated turbulence, leading them to stream along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Matt L. Sampson , James R. Beattie , Mark R. Krumholz , Roland M. Crocker , Christoph Federrath , Amit Seta

The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. Tomassetti , F. Donato

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to play a dynamically important role in several key aspects of galaxy evolution, including the structure of the interstellar medium, the formation of galactic winds, and the non-thermal pressure support of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-19 Yohan Dubois , Benoît Commerçon , Alexandre Marcowith , Loann Brahimi

The composition of the overall spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs) is studied under the assumption that ultra high energy CRs above the energy 10^{17} eV are produced at the shock created by the expanding cocoons around active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 E. G. Berezhko

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) is now widely accepted as the model to explain the production of cosmic rays (CRs) in a wide range of astrophysical environments. Despite initial successes of the theory in explaining the energetics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyesung Kang

The mechanism for acceleration of cosmic rays in supernova remnants (SNRs) is an outstanding question in the field. We model a sample of 32 axisymmetric SNRs using the quasi-perpendicular and quasi-parallel cosmic-ray-electron (CRE)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 J. L. West , S. Safi-Harb , G. Ferrand

The recent observations revealed that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton spectrum showed a complex structure: the hardening at $\rm \sim 200~GeV$ and softening at $\rm \sim 10~TeV$. However, so far the physical origins of this spectral feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang