Limits on compression of cosmic rays in supernova remnants
arXiv:2302.10591 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stad584
Abstract
The spectral shape of the gamma-ray emission observed for dynamically old supernova remnants that interact with molecular clouds triggered an exciting scenario of adiabatic compression and farther re-acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) in radiative shells of the remnants, which was extensively discussed and applied to various sources over recent years. Indeed, the observed gamma-ray spectrum from a number of remnants strongly resembles the expected spectrum of the gamma-ray emission from the compressed population of Galactic cosmic rays. In the following we discuss the feasibility of this scenario and show that it is very unlikely that compressed GCRs could produce sufficient amount of gamma-rays and that the observed spectral shape is putting strong limits on the allowed compression factors. Further, absence of curvature in featureless power-law spectra of evolved supernova remnants at radio wavelengths is strongly disfavoring the compression scenario for electrons and hence for hadrons. Our calculations show that the contribution of compressed electrons to the observed radio-flux could reach at most ~10%.
arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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