Molecular Clouds as a Probe of Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in a Supernova Remnant

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2009-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4482v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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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 that the SNR shock propagates in a low-density cavity, which is created and heated through the activities of the progenitor stars and/or previous supernova explosions. We indicate that the diffusion coefficient for cosmic-rays around the SNRs is less than ~1% of that away from them. We compare our predictions with the gamma-ray spectra of molecular clouds illuminated by the cosmic-rays (Fermi and H.E.S.S.). We found that the spectral indices of the particles are ~2.3. This may be because the particles were accelerated at the end of the Sedov phase, and because energy dependent escape and propagation of particles did not much affect the spectrum.

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