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11–15 Jul 2022
Niels Bohr Institute
Europe/Copenhagen timezone
Zoom room: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/61850277164?pwd=bW9yN3ltTkFXOXRacjNBSUYvWHZYZz09

Self-confinement of low-energy cosmic rays around supernova remnants

13 Jul 2022, 14:00
12m
Auditorium A (NBI)

Auditorium A

NBI

Speaker

Hanno Jacobs (TTK RWTH-Aachen)

Description

Supernova Remnants have long been considered as promising candidate sources for cosmic rays. However, modelling the transport around these sources is difficult due to its nonlinear nature. The strong overdensity in the near source region leads to the production of plasma turbulence, upon which the particles scatter. To calculate this mechanism, called self-confinement, requires the numerical solution of two coupled differential equations describing the transport of particles and waves, most ofthen done in the flux tube approximation. Here, this formalism is extended to energies below $10\,GeV$, where energy losses become relevant. Particles around $100\,MeV$ are found to be confined for in between $300\,kyr$ and $1\, Myr$, depending on the interstellar medium. The diffusion coefficient is initially suppressed by up to two orders of magnitude. Interestingly, the spectrum outside the supernova flattens below $1\,GeV$ at later times, similar to the spectral behavior observed by Voyager. Furthermore, the grammage accumulated in the near source region is found to be non-negligible, which could be important for precision fitting cosmic ray spectra.

Primary authors

Hanno Jacobs (TTK RWTH-Aachen) Dr Minh Vo Hong Phan (TTK RWTH) Philipp Mertsch (NBIA)

Presentation materials