2010ApJ...725.1476P -
Astrophys. J., 725, 1476-1484 (2010/December-3)
The role of diffusive shock acceleration on nonequilibrium ionization in supernova remnant shocks. II. Emitted spectra.
PATNAUDE D.J., SLANE P., RAYMOND J.C. and ELLISON D.C.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a grid of nonequilibrium ionization models for the X-ray spectra from supernova remnants undergoing efficient diffusive shock acceleration. The calculation follows the hydrodynamics of the blast wave as well as the time-dependent ionization of the plasma behind the shock. The ionization state is passed to a plasma emissivity code to compute the thermal X-ray emission, which is combined with the emission from nonthermal synchrotron emission to produce a self-consistent model for the thermal and nonthermal emission from cosmic-ray dominated shocks. We show how plasma diagnostics such as the G'-ratio of He-like ions, defined as the ratio of the sum of the intercombination, forbidden, and satellite lines to the resonance line, can vary with acceleration efficiency, and discuss how the thermal X-ray emission, when the time-dependent ionization is not calculated self-consistently with the hydrodynamics, can differ from the thermal X-ray emission from models which do account for the hydrodynamics. Finally, we compare the thermal X-ray emission from models which show moderate acceleration (∼35%) to the thermal X-ray emission from test-particle models.
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cosmic rays - ISM: supernova remnants - radiation mechanisms: thermal - shock waves - X-rays: ISM
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