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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

The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting the very high energy (VHE; > 10^11 eV) gamma-ray unidentified sources; and moreover it represents the only viable option to explain the discovery of several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Omar Tibolla , Michael Vorster , Sarah Kaufmann , Stefan Ferreira , Karl Mannheim

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

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

The recent discovery of a new population of ultra-high-energy gamma-ray sources with spectra extending beyond 100 TeV revealed the presence of Galactic PeVatrons - cosmic-ray factories accelerating particles to PeV energies. These sources,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Rubén López-Coto , Elena Amato , Felix Aharonian

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

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

The number of known PWNe has recently increased considerably, and the majority of them are now middle-age objects. Recent studies have shown a clear correlation of both X-ray luminosity and size with the PWN age, but fail in providing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Rino Bandiera

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

We study the spectral evolution of PWNe taking into account the energy injected when they are young. We model the evolution of the magnetic field inside a uniformly expanding PWN. Considering time dependent injection from the pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

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

There is growing evidence from gamma-ray observations at high and very high energies that particle escape is a key aspect shaping the morphological properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) at various evolutionary stages. We aim to provide a…

It is believed that an isolated pulsar loses its rotational energy mainly through a relativistic wind consisting of electrons, positrons and possibly Poynting flux\cite{Pacini1973,Rees1974,Kennel1984}. As it expands, this wind may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 M. Y. Ge , F. J. Lu , L. L. Yan , S. S. Weng , S. N. Zhang , Q. D. Wang , L. J. Wang , Z. J. Li , W. Zhang

It has been suggested that some classes of luminous supernovae (SNe) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are driven by newborn magnetars. Fast-rotating proto-neutron stars have also been of interest as potential sources of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kenta Kiuchi , Imre Bartos

The extended nebulae formed as pulsar winds expand into their surroundings provide information about the composition of the winds, the injection history from the host pulsar, and the material into which the nebulae are expanding.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Patrick Slane

Recently, gamma-ray emission at TeV energies has been detected from the starburst galaxies NGC253 (Acero et al., 2009) and M82 (Acciari et al., 2009. It has been claimed that pion production due to cosmic rays accelerated in supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Karl Mannheim , Dominik Elsässer , Omar Tibolla

In this work, we study theoretical and observational issues about pulsars (PSRs), pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs). In particular, the spectral modeling of young PWNe and the X-ray analysis of SNRs with magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 J. Martin

We present the first detection of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission potentially associated with the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) hosted by the young core-collapse supernova remnant G292.0+1.8, based on a detailed time-resolved analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Lemière , G. Castelletti , N. L. Maza

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), formed when the wind originating from a rapidly rotating neutron star flows out into its surroundings, have now been observed across the electromagnetic spectrum from the radio to the PeV gamma-ray regime. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer

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