Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-01-24
Astron.Astrophys.305:L53,1996
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astron. & Astrophys. Letters (in press), Latex (laa.sty), 4 pages, 4 Ps figures
Scientific paper
Shock waves associated with shell type supernova remnants are considered to be possible sites of cosmic ray acceleration. Since shocks are capable of accelerating electrons in addition to protons one anticipates both species to contribute to the high energy radiation expected from these objects. Adopting a simple model for particle acceleration we calculate in a self-consistent manner the time-dependent synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation of high energy electrons assumed either to be accelerated directly by the shock wave or to be injected at high energies as secondaries from the hadronic collisions of relativistic protons with the circumstellar material. We deduce that for standard supernova parameters the TeV flux produced from neutral pion decay is about the same order as the flux expected from directly accelerated electrons.
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