Cosmic ray acceleration at blast waves from type Ia supernovae

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2007-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701027v1

J.KoreanAstron.Soc.39:95-105,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 Postscript figures. to appear in December, 2006 issue of Journal of Korean Astronomical Society

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We have calculated the cosmic ray (CR) acceleration at young remnants from Type Ia supernovae expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Adopting quasi-parallel magnetic fields, gasdynamic equations and the diffusion convection equation for the particle distribution function are solved in a comoving spherical grid which expands with the shock. Bohm-type diffusion due to self-excited Alfven waves, drift and dissipation of these waves in the precursor and thermal leakage injection were included. With magnetic fields amplified by the CR streaming instability, the particle energy can reach up to 10^{16}Z eV at young supernova remnants (SNRs) of several thousand years old. The fraction of the explosion energy transferred to the CR component asymptotes to 40-50 % by that time. For a typical SNR in a warm ISM, the accelerated CR energy spectrum should exhibit a concave curvature with the power-law slope flattening from 2 to 1.6 at E>0.1 TeV.

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