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Post-adiabatic supernova remnants in the interstellar magnetic field. Parallel and perpendicular shocks

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arxiv 1511.06156 v1 pith:2B737FL4 submitted 2015-11-19 astro-ph.HE

Post-adiabatic supernova remnants in the interstellar magnetic field. Parallel and perpendicular shocks

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Gamma-rays from hadronic collisions are expected from supernova remnants (SNRs) located near molecular clouds. The temperature on the shock interacting with the dense environment quickly reaches $10^5$ K. The radiative losses of plasma become essential in the evolution of SNRs. They decrease the thermal pressure and essentially increase the density behind the shock. The presence of ambient magnetic field may considerably alter the behavior of the post-adiabatic SNRs comparing to hydrodynamic scenario. In the present paper, the magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of radiative shocks in magnetic field are performed. High plasma compression due to the radiative losses results also in the prominent increase of the strength of the tangential component of magnetic field behind the shock and the decrease of the parallel one. If the strength of the tangential field before the shock is higher than about $3\mathrm{\mu G}$ it prevents formation of the very dense thin shell. The higher the strength of the tangential magnetic field the larger the thickness and the lower the maximum density in the radiative shell. Parallel magnetic field does not affect the distribution of the hydrodynamic parameters behind the shock. There are almost independent channels of energy transformations: radiative losses are due to the thermal energy, the magnetic energy increases by reducing the kinetic energy. The large density and high strength of the perpendicular magnetic field in the radiative shells of SNRs should result in considerable increase of the hadronic gamma-ray flux comparing to the leptonic one.

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