A Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from Pulsar Tails by VERITAS
Abstract
We report on the search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the regions around three nearby supersonic pulsars (PSR B0355+54, PSR J0357+3205 and PSR J1740+1000) that exhibit long X-ray tails. To date there is no clear detection of TeV emission from any pulsar tail that is prominent in X-ray or radio. We provide upper limits on the TeV flux, and luminosity, and also compare these limits with other pulsar wind nebulae detected in X-rays and the tail emission model predictions. We find that at least one of the three tails is likely to be detected in observations that are a factor of 2-3 more sensitive. The analysis presented here also has implications for deriving the properties of pulsar tails, for those pulsars whose tails could be detected in TeV.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.13911,
title = {A Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from Pulsar Tails by VERITAS},
author = {Wystan Benbow and A. Brill and James Buckley and M Capasso and A Chromey and M. Errando and Abraham Falcone and K. A. Farrell and Qi Feng and J Finley and G. M. Foote and Lucy Fortson and Amy Furniss and Alasdair Gent and C Giuri and David Hanna and Tarek Hassan and Olivier Hervet and Jamie Holder and G Hughes and T. B. Humensky and Weidong Jin and Philip Kaaret and Oleg Kargaltsev and Mary P. Kertzman and David Kieda and Noel Klingler and Sajan Kumar and M Lang and M Lundy and Gernot Maier and C. E. McGrath and Patrick Moriarty and Reshmi Mukherjee and D Nieto and M Nievas-Rosillo and S O'Brien and Rene A. Ong and A. N. Otte and S. Patel and Konstantin Pfrang and Martin Pohl and Raul Prado and John Quinn and Kenneth J. Ragan and P. and T. Reynolds and D Ribeiro and G. T. Richards and Emmet Thomas Roache and James Ryan and Marcos Santander and Glenn H Sembroski and R Shang and Igor Volkov and S. P Wakely and Amanda Weinstein and P. Wilcox and D. A. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13911},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
21 pages, 6 figures