High Energy Particle Acceleration And Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplification In Shell Type Supernova Remnants by Jonathan Wilmore Keohane

Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Part I discusses the spatial correlation between the x-ray and radio morphologies of Cas A, and in the process address: the effect of inhomogeneous absorption on the apparent x-ray morphology, the interaction between the SNR and a molecular cloud, and the rapid move toward equipartition between the magnetic and gas energy densities. Discussions of the x-ray./radio correlation continues in Chapter 5, where we present a new, deep, ROSAT HRI image of Cas A. Chapter 7 presents ASCA spectra, with non-thermal spectral fits for 13 of the youngest SNRs in the Galaxy. | High Energy Particle Acceleration And Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplification In Shell Type Supernova Remnants by Jonathan Wilmore Keohane