English

Fitting Pulsar Wind Tori. II. Error Analysis and Applications

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We have applied the torus fitting procedure described in Ng & Romani (2004) to PWNe observations in the Chandra data archive. This study provides quantitative measurement of the PWN geometry and we characterize the uncertainties in the fits, with statistical errors coming from the fit uncertainties and systematic errors estimated by varying the assumed fitting model. The symmetry axis Ψ\Psi of the PWN are generally well determined, and highly model-independent. We often derive a robust value for the spin inclination ζ\zeta. We briefly discuss the utility of these results in comparison with new radio and high energy pulse measurements

Cite

@article{arxiv.0710.4168,
  title  = {Fitting Pulsar Wind Tori. II. Error Analysis and Applications},
  author = {C. -Y. Ng and Roger W. Romani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4168},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures, ApJ in press

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