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In the common model supernova shock-acceleration of cosmic rays there are two open questions: 1. where does the high energy cosmic rays below the knee (10$^4-10^6$ Gev) come from, and 2. are cosmic ray accelerated only at their origin or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel

The last ten years a number of observational advances have substantially increased our knowledge of shock phenomena in supernova remnants. This progress has mainly been made possible by the recent improvements in X-ray and Gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jacco Vink

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 discuss recent observations of high energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons in the context of hadronic interactions in supernova remnants, the suspected accelerators of galactic cosmic rays. Diffusive shock acceleration can harden the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Markus Ahlers , Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Recent observations reveal that spectral breaks at ~GeV are commonly present in Galactic gamma-ray supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds and that most of them have a spectral ($E^2dF/dE$) "platform" extended from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Hui Li , Yang Chen

The shocks of several young supernova remnants (SNR) are often associated with very thin optical filaments dominated by Balmer emission resulting from charge-exchange and collisional excitation between neutral Hydrogen from the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Giovanni Morlino

We investigate the evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) in a two-phase cloudy medium by performing a series of high-resolution (up to $\Delta x\approx0.01\,\mathrm{pc}$), 3D hydrodynamical simulations including radiative cooling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-21 Minghao Guo , Chang-Goo Kim , James M. Stone

Many supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered to evolve in molecular environments, but the associations between SNRs and molecular clouds (MCs) are often unclear. Being aware of such ambiguous case, we report our study on the molecular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Xin Zhou , Yang Su , Ji Yang , Yang Chen , Ye Xu , Xuepeng Chen , Shaobo Zhang

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 review the class of galactic supernova remnants which show strong interactions with molecular clouds, revealed through shock-excited hydroxyl masers. These remnants are preferentially found among the known GeV and TeV detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-30 Dale A. Frail

A new numerical model of the nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration is presented. It is used for modeling of particle acceleration in supernova remnants. The model contains coupled spherically symmetric hydrodynamic equations and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin

Supernova explosions into predecessor stellar winds can lead to particle acceleration, which we suggest can explain most of the observed cosmic rays of the nuclei of Helium and heavier elements, from GeV in particle energies up to near $3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Peter L. Biermann

Young supernova remnants are thought to be the sites where cosmic ray acceleration occurs by the mechanism of diffusive shock acceleration. The maximum energy gained in this process is conventionally extimated to have a value close to, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. O'C. Drury , E. van der Swaluw , O. Carroll

The observed spectrum of a supernova remnant (SNR) is a superposition of many ``local'' spectra emitted by regions of SNRs that are under different physical conditions. The question remains as to whether the broadening of the high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Petruk

The presence of neutral hydrogen in the shock proximity changes the structure of the shock and affects the spectra of particles accelerated through the first-order Fermi mechanism. This phenomenon has profound implications for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 G. Morlino , P. Blasi

We present a 3-dimensional model of supernova remnants (SNRs) where the hydrodynamical evolution of the remnant is modeled consistently with nonlinear diffusive shock acceleration occuring at the outer blast wave. The model includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiu-Hang Lee , Tsuneyoshi Kamae , Donald C. Ellison

Core-collapse supernova (SN) explosions may occur in the highly inhomogeneous molecular clouds (MCs) in which their progenitors were born. We perform a series of 3-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to model the interaction between an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Dong Zhang , Roger A. Chevalier

We review the basic features of particle acceleration theory around collisionless shocks in supernova remnants (SNRs). We show how non linear effects induced by the back reaction of accelerated particles onto the shock dynamics are of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Giovanni Morlino

We discuss the acceleration and escape of secondary particles, especially positrons produced by hadronic interactions in a supernova remnant (SNR) shock. During the shock acceleration, protons would interact with ambient gas and produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-01 Norita Kawanaka

In this study, we treat the Fermi bubbles as a scaled-up version of supernova remnants (SNRs). The bubbles are created through activities of the super-massive black hole (SMBH) or starbursts at the Galactic center (GC). Cosmic-rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki