Comparing a model of cosmic ray production in the supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with observations

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Explicitly time-dependent, nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) has been employed to investigate the properties of SNR RX J1713.7-3946.

• Observations of the nonthermal radio and X-ray emission spectra as well as earlier H.E.S.S.
• measurements of the very high energy $\gamma$-ray emission were used to constrain the astronomical and the particle acceleration parameters of the system.
• The model assumes that the object was a core collapse supernova (SN) with a massive progenitor, has an age of $\approx 1600$ yr and is at a distance of $\approx 1$ kpc.