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We investigate the radiation processes inside supernova remnants which are powered by young pulsars. Using recent model for particle acceleration by the pulsar wind nebulae, we obtain the equilibrium spectra of leptons and nuclei inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

Young pulsars produce relativistic winds which interact with matter ejected during the supernova explosion and the surrounding interstellar gas. Particles are accelerated to very high energies somewhere in the pulsar winds or at the shocks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Bednarek

The recently detected gamma-ray emission from Starburst galaxies is most commonly considered to be diffuse emission arising from strong interactions of accelerated cosmic rays. Mannheim et al. (2012), however, have argued that a population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefan Ohm , Jim Hinton

We consider a situation in which a pulsar is formed inside or close to a high density region of a molecular cloud. Right after birth, the pulsar was very active and accelerated hadrons and leptons to very high energies. Hadrons diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Bartko , W. Bednarek

Recent observations of a few young pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) have revealed their morphologies in some detail. Given the availability of spatio-spectral-temporal data, we use our multi-zone (1D) leptonic emission code to model the PWNe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 A. Kundu , Jagdish C. Joshi , C. Venter , N. E. Engelbrecht , W. Zhang , Diego F. Torres , I. Sushch , Shuta J. Tanaka

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton (IC) emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar (as well as its shell-type remnant), but it also exceeds the age of those that emit via synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 O. Tibolla , M. Vorster , O. de Jager , S. E. S. Ferreira , S. Kaufmann , C. Venter , K. Mannheim , F. Giordano

In this paper we explore the evolution of a PWN while the pulsar is spinning down. An MHD approach is used to simulate the evolution of a composite remnant. Particular attention is given to the adiabatic loss rate and evolution of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-16 O. C. de Jager , S. E. S. Ferreira , A. Djannati-Ataï , M. Dalton , C. Deil , K. Kosack , M. Renaud , U. Schwanke , O. Tibolla

We estimate the TeV gamma-ray fluxes expected from the population of young pulsars in terms of the self-consistent time dependent hadronic-leptonic model for the high energy processes inside the pulsar wind nebulae. This radiation model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

The most numerous source class that emerged from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). The 2013 reanalysis of this survey, undertaken after almost 10 years of observations, provides us with the most sensitive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Klepser , S. Carrigan , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , C. Deil , A. Förster , V. Marandon , M. Mayer , K. Stycz , K. Valerius

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

The hypothesis that pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) can significantly contribute to the excess of the positron ($e^+$) cosmic-ray flux has been consolidated after the observation of a $\gamma$-ray emission at TeV energies of a few degree size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Silvia Manconi , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

A systematic X-ray survey of the most energetic rotation-powered pulsars known, based on spin-down energy loss rate, $\dot E$ = $I\omega\dot\omega$, shows that all energetic pulsars with $\dot E > \dot E_{c} \approx 3.4 \times\ 10^{36}$ erg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Gotthelf

An observational model is presented for the spectra of young rotation-powered pulsars and their nebulae based on a study of nine bright Crab-like pulsar systems observed with the Chandra X-ray observatory. A significant correlation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. V. Gotthelf

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) constitute the largest population of Galactic very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray sources and are key laboratories for studying particle acceleration and pulsar--supernova remnant (SNR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 A. De Sarkar , D. F. Torres , B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini , D. M. -A. Meyer

We make a time-dependent characterization of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) surrounding some of the highest spin-down pulsars that have not yet been detected at TeV. Our aim is assessing their possible level of magnetization. We analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Martin , D. F. Torres , A. Cillis , E. de Oña Wilhelmi

We report new Chandra X-ray observations of the shell supernova remnant (SNR) Kes 75 (G29.7-0.3) containing a pulsar and pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). Expansion of the PWN is apparent across the four epochs, 2000, 2006, 2009, and 2016. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Peter H. Gwynne

We present a new X-ray study and multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling of the young pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the energetic pulsar PSR J1747-2809, inside the composite supernova remnant (SNR) G0.9+0.1,…

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) shine at multi-wavelengths and are expected to constitute the largest class of gamma-ray sources in our Galaxy. They are known to be very efficient particle accelerators: the Crab nebula, the PWNe class prototype,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-27 Barbara Olmi

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) represent the largest class of sources that upcoming {\gamma}-ray surveys will detect. Therefore, accurate modelling of their global emission properties is one of the most urgent problems in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Fiori , B. Olmi , E. Amato , R. Bandiera , N. Bucciantini , L. Zampieri , A. Burtovoi

Several Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) have been detected in the TeV band in the last decade.The TeV emission is typically interpreted in a purely leptonic scenario, but this usually requires that the magnetic field in the Nebula be much lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Irene Di Palma , Dafne Guetta , Elena Amato