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A Bright Molecular Core in a Crab Nebula Filament

In a sub-arcsec near-infrared survey of the Crab Nebula using the new Spartan Infrared Camera, we have found several knots with high surface brightness in the H_2 2.12 micron line and a very large H_2 2.12 micron to Br-gamma ratio. The…

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The Nature of the H2-Emitting Gas in the Crab Nebula

Understanding how molecules and dust might have formed within a rapidly expanding young supernova remnant is important because of the obvious application to vigorous supernova activity at very high redshift. In previous papers, we found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 C. T. Richardson , J. A. Baldwin , G. J. Ferland , E. D. Loh , C. A. Kuehn , A. C. Fabian , Philippe Salomé

H2 Temperatures in the Crab Nebula

We used K-band spectra to measure the H2 excitation temperatures in six molecular knots associated with the filaments in the Crab Nebula. The temperatures are quite high - in the range T ~ 2000-3000K, just below the H2 dissociation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 E. D. Loh , J. A. Baldwin , G. J. Ferland , Z. K. Curtis , C. T. Richardson , A. C. Fabian , P. Salomé

Dense Molecular Clouds in the Crab Supernova Remnant

Molecular emission was imaged with ALMA from numerous components near and within bright H2-emitting knots and absorbing dust globules in the Crab Nebula. These observations provide a critical test of how energetic photons and particles…

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The Nature of [Ar III] Bright Knots in the Crab Nebula

The kinematic and morphological properties of a string of [Ar III] bright knots in the Crab Nebula are examined using 1994 - 1999 HST WFPC-2 images of the remnant. We find that five southern [Ar III] bright knots exhibit ordinary radial…

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Morphological properties of the Crab Nebula: a detailed multiwavelength study based on new VLA, HST, Chandra and XMM-Newton images

We present a detailed analysis of the morphological properties of the Crab Nebula across the electromagnetic spectrum based on new and previous high-quality data from radio to X-rays. In the radio range we obtained an image of the entire…

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VLBI imaging of a flare in the Crab Nebula: More than just a spot

We report on very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the radio emission from the inner region of the Crab Nebula, made at 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz after a recent high-energy flare in this object. The 5 GHz data have provided only…

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Characterization of the Inner Knot of the Crab: The Site of the Gamma-ray Flares?

One of the most intriguing results from the gamma-ray instruments in orbit has been the detection of powerful flares from the Crab Nebula. These flares challenge our understanding of pulsar wind nebulae and models for particle acceleration.…

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Observations of the Crab Nebula and its pulsar in the far-ultraviolet and in the optical

We present HST/STIS far-UV observations of the Crab nebula and its pulsar. Broad, blueshifted absorption arising in the nebula is seen in C IV 1550, reaching about 2500 km/s. This can be interpreted as evidence for a fast outer shell, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jesper Sollerman , Peter Lundqvist , Don Lindler , Roger A. Chevalier , Claes Fransson , Theodore R. Gull , Chun S. J. Pun , George Sonneborn

The observation of the Crab Nebula with LHAASO-KM2A for the performance study

As a sub-array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), KM2A is mainly designed to cover a large fraction of the northern sky to hunt for gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 TeV. Even though the detector construction…

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Detecting the rapidly expanding outer shell of the Crab Nebula: where to look

We present a range of steady-state photoionization simulations, corresponding to different assumed shell geometries and compositions, of the unseen postulated rapidly expanding outer shell to the Crab Nebula. The properties of the shell are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiang Wang , G. J. Ferland , J. A. Baldwin , E. D. Loh , C. T. Richardson

A Spectroscopic Study of Nuclear Processing and Production of Anomalously Strong Lines in the Crab Nebula

We present and discuss correlations for optical and near-infrared (5500-10030 angstroms) line intensity measurements at many positions in the Crab Nebula. These correlations suggest the existence of gas produced by a range of nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. M. MacAlpine , T. C. Ecklund , W. R. Lester , S. J. Vanderveer , L. G. Strolger

Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Crab Nebula

We present 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, 24, and 70 micron images of the Crab Nebula obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope IRAC and MIPS cameras, Low- and High-resolution Spitzer IRS spectra of selected positions within the nebula, and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tea Temim , Robert D. Gehrz , Charles E. Woodward , Thomas L. Roellig , Nathan Smith , Lawrence R. Rudnick , Elisha F. Polomski , Kris Davidson , Lunming Yuen , Takashi Onaka

The Radio - 2 mm Spectral Index of the Crab Nebula Measured with GISMO

We present results of 2 mm observations of the Crab Nebula, obtained using the Goddard-IRAM Superconducting 2 Millimeter Observer (GISMO) bolometer camera on the IRAM 30 m telescope. Additional 3.3 mm observations with the MUSTANG bolometer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 R. G. Arendt , J. V. George , J. G. Staguhn , D. J. Benford , M. J. Devlin , S. R. Dicker , D. J. Fixsen , K. D. Irwin , C. A. Jhabvala , P. M. Korngut , A. Kovács , S. F. Maher , B. S. Mason , T. M. Miller , S. H. Moseley , S. Navarro , A. Sievers , J. L. Sievers , E. Sharp , E. J. Wollack

The Crab Nebula and Pulsar between 500 GeV and 80 TeV: Observations with the HEGRA stereoscopic air Cherenkov telescopes

The Crab supernova remnant has been observed regularly with the stereoscopic system of 5 imaging air Cherenkov telescopes that was part of the High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (HEGRA) experiment. In total, close to 400 hours of useful data…

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Search for a Shock Wave around the Crab Nebula

We have searched the region surrounding the Crab Nebula for the existence of a shock wave with the imaging instruments of the Einstein Observatory. The search is complicated by the scattering of nebula and pulsar X-rays from the imperfectly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. W. Mauche , P. Gorenstein

Far-infrared and sub-mm observations of the Crab nebula

We present FIR and sub-mm images of the Crab nebula, taken with ISOPHOT on board ISO and with the SCUBA on the JCMT. The ISOPHOT observations were made at 60, 100, 170 micron, with FWHM of equivalent area Gaussian beams of 44, 47 and 93…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Green , R. J. Tuffs , C. C. Popescu

Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector

We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrometer, is capable of measuring polarization of gamma-ray…

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Observational and theoretical constraints for an H$\alpha$-halo around the Crab Nebula

We searched for a fast moving H$\alpha$ shell around the Crab nebula. Such a shell could account for this supernova remnant's missing mass, and carry enough kinetic energy to make SN 1054 a normal Type II event. Deep H$\alpha$ images were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Tziamtzis , M. Schirmer , P. Lundqvist , J. Sollerman

CHANDRA Observations of the X-ray Halo around the Crab Nebula

Two Chandra observations have been used to search for thermal X-ray emission from within and around the Crab Nebula. Dead-time was minimized by excluding the brightest part of the Nebula from the field of view. A dust-scattered halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. D. Seward , P. Gorenstein , R. K. Smith