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Very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission provides constraints on the morphology and the physics mechanisms involved in the evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In the Galactic plane, around $312 ^{\circ}$ of Galactic longitude, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-06 P. Chambéry , Y. Gallant , A. Jardin-Blicq , M. Lemoine-Goumard , V. Marandon , A. Sinha , M. Tsirou , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

We have constructed and calibrated a spherically-symmetric, spatially-dependent particle transport and emission code for young pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). This code predicts the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the radiation spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-20 Carlo van Rensburg , Christo Venter

An increasing number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are being identified in the TeV band by ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes such that they constitute the dominant source class of Galactic TeV emitters. However, MeV-GeV PWN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jordan Eagle , Daniel Castro , Wei Zhang , Diego Torres , Jean Ballet , The Fermi-LAT Collaboration

We report on a sensitive survey for radio pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) towards 27 energetic and/or high velocity pulsars. Observations were carried out at 1.4 GHz using the Very Large Array and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. M. Gaensler , B. W. Stappers , D. A. Frail , D. A. Moffett , S. Johnston , S. Chatterjee

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the synchrotron bubbles inflated by the rotational energy of a neutron star. Observing variability within them has previously been limited to cases of significant brightening, or the few instances where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Benson Guest , Samar Safi-Harb

We present preliminary results from a systematic spectral study of pulsars and their wind nebulae using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The superb spatial resolution of Chandra allows us to differentiate the compact object's spectrum from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Gotthelf , C. M. Olbert

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are main gamma-ray emitters in the Galactic plane. Although the leptonic scenario is able to explain most PWNe emission well, a hadronic contribution cannot be excluded. High-energy emission raises the possibility…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-23 Qinrui Liu , Ali Kheirandish

The evolution of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) depends on properties of the progenitor star, supernova, and surrounding environment. As some of these quantities are difficult to measure, reproducing the observed dynamical properties and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Soichiro Hattori , Samayra M. Straal , Emily Zhang , Tea Temim , Joseph D. Gelfand , Patrick O. Slane

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

We report on the X-ray emission properties of the pulsar PSR J1849$-$0001 and its wind nebula (PWN), as measured by Chandra, XMM-Newton, NICER, Swift, and NuSTAR. In the X-ray data, we detected the 38-ms pulsations of the pulsar up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-22 Chanho Kim , Jaegeun Park , Jooyun Woo , Sarah Silverman , Hongjun An , Aya Bamba , Kaya Mori , Stephen P. Reynolds , Samar Safi-Harb

The very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission reported from a number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) is naturally explained by the inverse Compton scattering of multi-TeV electrons. However, the physical dimensions of some gamma-ray-emitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Dmitry Khangulyan , Alexander V. Koldoba , Galina V. Ustyugova , Sergey V. Bogovalov , Felix Aharonian

We investigate the time-dependent behavior of Crab-like pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) generating a set of models using 4 different initial spin-down luminosities ($L_0 =\{1,0.1,0.01,0.001\} \times L_{0, {\rm Crab}}$), 8 values of magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 D. F. Torres , J. Martin , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , A. Cillis

We present a statistical study of the non-thermal X-ray emission of 27 young rotation powered pulsars (RPPs) and 24 pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) by using the Chandra and the XMM-Newton observations, which with the high spatial resolutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Hua Li , Fang-Jun Lu , Zhuo Li

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are one of the most energetic galactic sources with bright emissions from radio waves to very high-energy gamma-rays. We perform wideband X-ray spectroscopy of four energetic PWNe, N157B, PSR J1813-1749, PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Aya Bamba , Shinpei Shibata , Shuta J. Tanaka , Koji Mori , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yukikatsu Terada , Wataru Ishizaki

Nearby electron/positron accelerators, mostly Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), have been proposed as potential origins of the positron excess above 10 GeV. The HAWC Observatory reveals two very extended sources spatially coincident with two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hao Zhou , Rubén López-Coto , Francisco Salesa Greus

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

High-energy radiation of young pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) is known to be variable. This is most prominently exemplified by the Crab nebula which can undergo both rapid brightenings and dimmings. Two pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 B. A. Nizamov , M. S. Pshirkov

A recent research shows that particles with a spectrum of a relativistic Maxwellian plus a high-energy tail can be accelerated by relativistic collisionless shocks. We investigate the possibility of the high-energy particles with this new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Fang , L. Zhang

For pulsars similar to the one in the Crab Nebula, most of the energy input to the surrounding wind nebula occurs on a timescale of less than 1000 years; during this time, the nebula expands into freely expanding supernova ejecta. On a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John M. Blondin , Roger A. Chevalier , Dargan M. Frierson

The Crab nebula is a prominent pulsar wind nebula (PWN) detected in multiband observations ranging from radio to very high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays. Recently, $\gamma$-rays with energies above $1 \mathrm{PeV}$ had been detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Lu Wen , Ke-Yao Wu , Huan Yu , Jun Fang