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A pulsar wind is a relativistic outflow dominated by Poynting energy at its base. Based on the standard ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) with the ordered magnetic field, the observed slow expansion $v_{\rm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Shuta J. Tanaka , Kenji Toma , Nozomu Tominaga

Pulsars are known to be efficient accelerators that produce copious amounts of relativistic particles and inject them into the Galactic medium. The radiation emitted by such a pulsar wind can be seen from radio through gamma-rays as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleg Kargaltsev , George Pavlov

We present a study of the composite supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 based on observations by XMM-Newton. The EPIC spectrum shows diffuse X-ray emission from the region corresponding to the radio shell. The X-ray spectrum of the whole Pulsar Wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Porquet , A. Decourchelle , R. S. Warwick

We performed a spatially resolved spectral X-ray study of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. Furthermore we modeled its nonthermal emission in the X-ray and very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray regime.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-25 M. Holler , F. M. Schöck , P. Eger , D. Kießling , K. Valerius , C. Stegmann

Multi-TeV gamma-ray emission around eHWC J1850+001 (a source from the first HAWC catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 TeV) is spatially coincident with the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G32.64+0.53, powered by PSR J1849-0001. The…

We present a multifrequency radio investigation of the Crab-like pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G54.1+0.3 using the Very Large Array. The high resolution of the observations reveals that G54.1+0.3 has a complex radio structure which includes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Cornelia C. Lang , Q. Daniel Wang , Fangjun Lu , Kelsey Clubb

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the dominant Ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources in the LHAASO catalog suggesting that they are the dominant leptonic PeVatrons in our Galaxy. Despite this, still very little is known about their UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti , Dmitri Semikoz

The shock wave of supernova remnants (SNRs) and the wind termination shock in pulsar wind nebula (PWNe) are considered as prime candidates to accelerate the bulk of Galactic cosmic ray (CR) ions and electrons. The SNRs hosting a PWN (known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Acero , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Förster , Y. Gallant , M. Renaud

A spatially-independent model that can be used to calculate the temporal evolution of the electron/ positron spectrum in a spherically expanding pulsar wind nebula is presented. The model is applied to the young nebula G21.5-0.9, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-08 M. J. Vorster , O. Tibolla , S. E. S. Ferreira , S. Kaufmann

We present X-ray and radio studies of sources which are brightabove 1 GeV (F_{>1GeV} > 4e-8 ph/cm^2/s. Only 11 out of ~30 of these gamma-ray sources have been identified with lower energy counterparts: 5 blazars and 6 pulsars. Three of…

We study the transport of high-energy particles in pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) using three-dimensional MHD (see Porth et al. (2014) for details) and test-particle simulations, as well as a Fokker-Planck particle transport model. The latter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 O. Porth , M. J. Vorster , M. Lyutikov , N. E. Engelbrecht

We review the observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe) that give information on the strength and orientation of magnetic fields. Radio polarimetry gives the degree of order of magnetic fields, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. P. Reynolds , B. M. Gaensler , F. Bocchino

The dynamics, energetics and evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs), are strongly affected by their magnetic field strength and distribution. They are usually strong, extended, sources of non-thermal X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , J. Vink , A. Bykov , R. Zanin , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato , R. Bandiera , B. Olmi , Yu. Uvarov

We present a polarimetric study of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in supernova remnant G21.5$-$0.9 using archival Very Large Array (VLA) data. The rotation measure (RM) map of the PWN shows a symmetric pattern that aligns with the presumed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Paul C. W. Lai , C. -Y. Ng , Niccolo' Bucciantini

The pulsar wind nebula associated with PSR J1826-1334, HESS J1825-137, is a bright very high energy source with an angular extent of ~1 degree and spatially-resolved spectroscopic TeV measurements. The gamma-ray spectral index is observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-31 Adam Van Etten , Roger W. Romani

The morphology of young Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWN) is largely determined by the properties of the wind injected by the pulsar. We have used a recent parametrization of the wind obtained from Force Free Electrodynamics simulations of pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-04 Rolf Buehler , Matteo Giomi

In this work, we present a leptonic, time-dependent model of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The model seeks a solution for the lepton distribution function considering the full time-energy dependent diffusion-loss equation. The time-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Jonatan Martin , Diego F. Torres , Nanda Rea

Based on the expected population of core collapse supernova remnants and the huge number of detected pulsars in the Galaxy, still representing only a fraction of the real population, pulsar wind nebulae are likely to constitute one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Barbara Olmi

Recently, two photons with energy of about 1 PeV have been detected by LHAASO from the Crab nebula, opening an ultra-high energy window for studying the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Remarkably, the LHAASO spectrum at the highest-energy end…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang