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Particle acceleration and radio emission from supernovae (C. Fransson, C.-I. Björnsson)

A model for the radio emission from SN 1993J has been presented, and the radio light curves of the supernova are found to be well fit by a synchrotron spectrum, suppressed by external free-free absorption and synchrotron self-absorption. A standard tex2html_wrap_inline155 -wind is assumed, and found to be adequate. The ratio of magnetic and thermal energy density behind the shock, is tex2html_wrap_inline157 . The injected electron spectrum has a power law index of -2.1, consistent with diffusive shock acceleration, and the number density scales with the thermal electron energy density. The total energy density of the relativistic electrons is, if extrapolated to tex2html_wrap_inline161 , tex2html_wrap_inline163 of the thermal energy density. The free-free absorption required is consistent with previous calculations of the circumstellar temperature of SN 1993J, tex2html_wrap_inline165  K.



Juri Poutanen & Roland Svensson