Study of TeV shell supernova remnants at gamma-ray energies

Understand

The breakthrough developments of Cherenkov telescopes in the last decade have led to angular resolution of 0.1{\deg} and an unprecedented sensitivity.

• This has allowed the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes to discover a population of supernova remnants (SNRs) radiating in very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays.
• A number of those VHE SNRs exhibit a shell-type morphology spatially coincident with the shock front of the SNR.
• The members of this VHE shell SNR club are RX J1713.7-3946, Vela Jr, RCW 86, SN 1006, and HESS J1731-347.