Post-adiabatic supernova remnants in an interstellar magnetic field: oblique shocks and non-uniform environment
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Petruk, O.
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Kuzyo, T.
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Pohl, M.
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Beshley, V.
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Brose, R.
Abstract
We present very-high-resolution 1D MHD simulations of the late-stage supernova remnants (SNRs). In the post-adiabatic stage, the magnetic field has an important and significant dynamical effect on the shock dynamics, the flow structure, and hence the acceleration and emission of cosmic rays. We find that the tangential component of the magnetic field provides pressure support that to a fair degree prevents the collapse of the radiative shell and thus limits the total compression ratio of the partially or fully radiative forward shock. A consequence is that the spectra of cosmic rays would not be as hard as in hydrodynamic simulations. We also investigated the effect on the flow profiles of the magnetic-field inclination and a large-scale gradient in the gas density and/or the magnetic field. A positive density gradient shortens the evolutionary stages, whereas a shock obliquity lowers the shock compression. The compression of the tangential component of the magnetic field leads to its dominance in the downstream region of post-adiabatic shocks for a wide range of orientation of the upstream field, which may explain why one preferentially observes tangential radio polarization in old SNRs. As most cosmic rays are produced at late stages of SNR evolution, the post-adiabatic phase and the influence of the magnetic field during it are most important for modeling the cosmic-ray acceleration at old SNRs and the gamma-ray emission from late-stage SNRs interacting with clouds.
Volume
479
Issue
3
Start page
4253
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
Ads BibCode
2018MNRAS.479.4253P
Rights
open.access
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