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The broadband emission of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) is well described by non-thermal emissions from accelerated electrons and positrons. However, the standard shock acceleration model of PWNe does not account for the hard spectrum in radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Shuta J. Tanaka , Katsuaki Asano

We present a new model for the spectral evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae inside Supernova Remnants. The model couples the long-term dynamics of these systems, as derived in the 1-D approximation, with a 1-zone description of the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 N. Bucciantini , J. Arons , E. Amato

We propose that cosmic-ray PeVatrons are pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) inside supernova remnants (SNRs). The PWN initially expands into the freely expanding stellar ejecta. Then, the PWN catches up with the shocked region of the SNR, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-08 Yutaka Ohira , Shota Kisaka , Ryo Yamazaki

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are clouds of the magnetized relativistic electron/positron plasma supplied from the central pulsar. However, the number of radio-emitting particles inside a PWN is larger than the expectation from the study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Shuta J. Tanaka , Wataru Ishizaki

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates for the source of cosmic rays, at least to energies up to ~10^14 eV, it is only over the past several years that direct evidence of such energetic particles in SNRs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) act as calorimeters for the relativistic pair winds emanating from within the pulsar light cylinder. Their radiative dissipation in various wavebands is significantly different from that of their pulsar central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Matthew G. Baring

Pulsars with high spin-down power produce relativistic winds radiating a fraction of the power in the range from radio to gamma-rays in the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The rest of the power is dissipated in the interactions of the PWNe with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-30 A. M. Bykov , E. Amato , A. E. Petrov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

As shown by broad-band observations, pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are characterized by a broken power-law spectrum of synchrotron emission. Based on the modern magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence theories, we investigate the re-acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Siyao Xu , Noel Klingler , Oleg Kargaltsev , Bing Zhang

Our understanding of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), has greatly improved in the last years thanks to unprecedented high resolution images taken from the HUBBLE, CHANDRA and XMM satellites. The discovery of complex but similar inner features,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. Bucciantini

We discuss the observational properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) linking them to the injected (at the termination shock) electron spectral energy distribution and parameters of pulsar magnetospheres. In particular, we (1) present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Oleg Kargaltsev , Noel Klingler , Sarah Chastain , George G Pavlov

In a recent work, we numerically studied the radiative properties of the reverberation phase of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), i.e., when the reverse shock created by the supernova explosion travels back towards the pulsar, compressing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Diego F. Torres , Tingting Lin , Francesco Coti Zelati

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are important sources for understanding galactic high-energy processes, but it is controversial until now about how high-energy particles in PWNe are accelerated and transported. Lacking radio counterparts of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Yihan Liu , C. -Y. Ng , Mallory S. E. Roberts , Lili Yang

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates as sources of cosmic rays, it is only recently that X-ray observations have identified several shell-type SNRs dominated by nonthermal emission, thus revealing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), especially the young ones, are among the most energetic astrophysical sources in the Galaxy. It is usually believed that the spin-down energy injected from the pulsars is converted into magnetic field and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Xuan-Han Liang , Xiao-Bin Chen , Ben Li , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Young pulsars and the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) or supernova remnants (SNRs) that surround them are some of the most dynamic and high-powered environments in our Universe. With the rise of more sensitive observations, the number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Samayra M. Straal , Liam Connor , Joeri van Leeuwen

A spatially independent model that calculates the time evolution of the electron spectrum in a spherically expanding pulsar wind nebula (PWN) is presented, allowing one to make broadband predictions for the PWN's non-thermal radiation. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-30 M. J. Vorster , O. Tibolla , S. E. S. Ferreira , S. Kaufmann

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) are bubbles or relativistic plasma that form when the pulsar wind is confined by the SNR or the ISM. Recent observations have shown a richness of emission features that has driven a renewed interest in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 N. Bucciantini

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), structures powered by energetic pulsars, are known for their detection across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with diverse morphologies and spectral behaviour between these bands. The temporal evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 A. M. W. Mitchell , J. Gelfand

The source HESS J1813-178 was detected in the survey of the inner Galaxy in TeV gamma-rays, and a SNR G12.8-0.0 was identified in the radio band to be associated with it. The PWN embedded in the SNR is powered by an energetic pulsar PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Jun Fang , Li Zhang

A complete set of diagnostic tools aimed at producing synthetic synchrotron emissivity, polarization, and spectral index maps from relativistic MHD simulations is presented. As a first application we consider here the case of the emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Del Zanna , Delia Volpi , Elena Amato , Niccolo' Bucciantini
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