Supernova remnants: on new ways to understand the cosmic ray physics | Oleh Petruk, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo

I will talk about two new possibilities to analyse the observational data on non-thermal emission of cosmic rays accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). The first one is related to the polarization images of SNRs. In fact, the polarized radio emission has been mapped with great detail in several Galactic supernova remnants, but has not yet been exploited to the extent it deserves. We have developed a method to model maps of the Stokes parameters for shell-like SNRs during their Sedov evolution phase. The second result bases on the time-dependent particle acceleration and relates the temporal evolution of the radio spectral index of SNR in the aftermath of the explosion to the gamma-ray spectrum at later stages. As a test case, we apply our method to describe gamma-rays from IC443; as a proxy of the IC443 parent supernova we consider SN1987A.