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Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are prominent sources in the very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sky, constituting the most numerous identified source class in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS). They are comprised of energetic particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Katharina Egg , Alison M. W. Mitchell

We present spectral measurements made in the soft (20-100 keV) gamma-ray band of the region containing the composite supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 and its associated pulsar PSR J1811-1925. Analysis of INTEGRAL/IBIS data allows…

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

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 evolution of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) inside a supernova remnant (SNR) is sensitive to properties of the central neutron star, pulsar wind, progenitor supernova, and interstellar medium. These properties are both difficult to measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-07 Joseph D. Gelfand , Patrick O. Slane , Tea Temim

We report the discovery of diffuse radio emission within SNR G338.3-0.0 using new MeerKAT observations at 816 MHz and 1.4 GHz. The radio emission spatially overlaps with the X-ray pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by PSR J1640-4631 and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Moaz Abdelmaguid , Joseph Gelfand , Jason Alford

We present the analysis of 200-ks NuSTAR observation of the Vela pulsar and the pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The phase-resolved spectra corresponding to two main peaks in the folded pulse profile differ significantly. The spectrum of Peak 1 is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Oleg Kargaltsev , Jeremy Hare , Alexander Lange

We analyzed X-ray data from Chandra, XMM-Newton, NICER, and NuSTAR to characterize the properties of the pulsar PSR J1838$-$0655 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with HESS J1837$-$069. Based on 5.5 years of NICER monitoring, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Minseo Park , Jaegeun Park , Chanho Kim , Hongjun An

G326.3$-$1.8 (also known as MSH 15$-$56) has been detected in radio as a middle-aged composite supernova remnant (SNR) consisting of an SNR shell and a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), which has been crushed by the SNR's reverse shock. Previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 J. Devin , F. Acero , J. Ballet , J. Schmid

Relativistic hydrodynamical simulations of the eccentric gamma-ray binary HESS J0632$+$057, show that the energy of a putative pulsar wind should accumulate in the binary surroundings between periastron and apastron, being released by fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Maxim Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon

We report the results of a 50 ks Chandra observation of the recently discovered radio object G141.2+5.0, presumed to be a pulsar-wind nebula. We find a moderately bright unresolved X-ray source which we designate CXOU J033712.8 615302…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

PSR B1706$-$44 is an energetic gamma-ray pulsar located inside supernova remnant (SNR) G343.1$-$2.3 and it powers a compact pulsar wind nebula (PWN) that shows torus and jet structure in X-rays. We present a radio study of the PWN using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Y. H. Liu , C. -Y. Ng , R. Dodson

We describe new measurements of the remarkable H$\alpha$/UV/X-ray bowshock and pulsar wind nebula of the isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J2124$-$3358. {\it CXO} imaging shows a one-sided jet structure with a softer equatorial outflow. KOALA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Roger W. Romani , Patrick Slane , Andrew Green

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) are ideal astrophysical laboratories where high energy relativistic phenomena can be investigated. They are close, well resolved in our observations, and the knowledge derived in their study has a strong impact in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Bucciantini

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) we have imaged the fields around five promising pulsar candidates to search for radio pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). We have used the ATCA in its pulsar gating mode; this enables an image to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. W. Stappers , B. M. Gaensler , S. Johnston

Pulsars with high spin-down power produce relativistic winds radiating a fraction of the power in the range from radio to gamma-rays in the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The rest of the power is dissipated in the interactions of the PWNe with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-30 A. M. Bykov , E. Amato , A. E. Petrov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

Suzaku observed the region including HESS J1809-193, one of the TeV unidentified (unID) sources, and confirmed existence of the extended hard X-ray emission previously reported by ASCA, as well as hard X-ray emission from the pulsar PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Takayasu Anada , Aya Bamba , Ken Ebisawa , Tadayasu Dotani

Detailed morphological and spatially resolved spectral studies reveal the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray aspects of this object with unprecedented precision. We confirm previous results obtained in a survey of the Galactic Plane in 2004.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

HESS J1825-137 is a bright very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source that has been firmly established as a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), and one of the most extended gamma-ray objects within this category. The progenitor supernova remnant (SNR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 M. Araya , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. D. Parsons