Cosmic-ray acceleration and escape from post-adiabatic Supernova remnants

Abstract

Supernova remnants are known to accelerate cosmic rays on account of their non-thermal emission of radio waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. Although there are many models for the acceleration of cosmic rays in Supernova remnants, the escape of cosmic rays from these sources is yet understudied. We use our time-dependent acceleration code RATPaC to study the acceleration of cosmic rays and their escape in post-adiabatic Supernova remnants and calculate the subsequent gamma-ray emission from inverse-Compton scattering and Pion decay. We performed spherically symmetric 1-D simulations in which we simultaneously solve the transport equations for CRs, magnetic turbulence, and the hydrodynamical flow of the thermal plasma in a volume large enough to keep all CRs in the simulation. The transport equations for cosmic-rays and magnetic turbulence are coupled via the cosmic-ray gradient and the spatial diffusion coefficient of the cosmic rays, while the cosmic-ray feedback onto the shock structure can be ignored. Our simulations span 100kyrs, thus covering the remnants evolution until the beginning of the post-adiabatic phase. At later stages of the evolution cosmic rays over a wide range of energy can reside outside of the remnant, creating spectra that are softer than predicted by standard DSA and feature breaks in the 10-100 GeV-range. The total spectrum of cosmic rays released into the interstellar medium has a spectral index of s~2.4 above roughly 10 GeV which is close to that required by Galactic propagation models. We further find the gamma-ray luminosity to peak around an age of 4,000 years for inverse-Compton-dominated high-energy emission. Remnants expanding in low-density media emit generally more inverse-Compton radiation matching the fact that the brightest known supernova remnants - RCW86, Vela Jr, HESSJ1731-347 and RXJ1713.7-3946 - are all expanding in low density environments.

arXiv comment12 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A

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