Discovery and characterization of superefficiency in pulsar wind nebulae
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2018-09-05 v1
Abstract
We numerically study the radiative properties of the reverberation phase of pulsar wind nebulae. Reverberation brings a significant evolution in a short period of time. We show that even the Crab nebula, associated to the more energetic pulsar of the sample we consider, has a period in its future time evolution where the X-ray luminosity will exceed the spin-down power at the time. In fact, all nebulae in our sample are expected to have a period of radio, X-ray, and GeV superefficiency, and most will also have a period of TeV superefficiency. We analyze and characterize these superefficient phases.
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@article{arxiv.1808.10613,
title = {Discovery and characterization of superefficiency in pulsar wind nebulae},
author = {Diego F. Torres and Tingting Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10613},
year = {2018}
}
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Accepted by the journal on July 30, 2018