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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…

Young pulsars and the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) or supernova remnants (SNRs) that surround them are some of the most dynamic and high-powered environments in our Universe. With the rise of more sensitive observations, the number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Samayra M. Straal , Liam Connor , Joeri van Leeuwen

Pulsar bow-shock nebulae are a class of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) that form when the pulsar wind is confined by the ram pressure of the ambient medium, and are usually associated with old pulsars, that have already emerged from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bucciantini , E. Amato , L. Del Zanna

We present new high-resolution radio and X-ray observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) B0453-685 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Chandra X-ray Observatory respectively.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Gaensler , S. P. Hendrick , S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski

This paper is a review of some of the recent modeling efforts to improve our understanding of structure formation and evolution of planetary nebulae including their interaction with the interstellar medium. New propositions have been made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wolfgang Steffen

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

We simulate the evolutions of the stellar wind and the supernova remnant (SNR) originating from a runaway massive star in an uniform Galactic environment based on the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics models. Taking the stellar wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-05 M. F. Zhang , W. W. Tian , D. Wu

We present observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) within the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. At Chandra's high resolution, the PWN has a clear axial symmetry; a faint X-ray point source lying along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. M. Gaensler , M. J. Pivovaroff , G. P. Garmire

Magnetohydrodynamical simulations are presented of a magnetized pulsar wind interacting directly with the interstellar medium, or, in the case of a surrounding supernova remnant, with the associated freely expanding ejecta of the progenitor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric van der Swaluw

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

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

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

We present high resolution spherically symmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the evolution of a pulsar wind nebula inside the free expanding ejecta of the supernova progenitor. The evolution is followed starting from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bucciantini , R. Bandiera , J. M. Blondin , E. Amato , L. Del Zanna

In this contribution we review the recent progress in the modeling of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWN). We start with a brief overview of the relevant physical processes in the magnetosphere, the wind-zone and the inflated nebula bubble. Radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-16 Oliver Porth , Rolf Buehler , Barbara Olmi , Serguei Komissarov , Astrid Lamberts , Elena Amato , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Rudy

Bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) show a variety of morphological shapes. We attribute this diversity to the geometrical factors: relative orientations of the pulsar rotation axis, proper velocity, and the line of sight (magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Maxim V. Barkov , Maxim Lyutikov , Dmitry Khangulyan

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.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Slane

In this review paper on pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) we discuss the properties of such nebulae within the context of containment against cross-field diffusion (versus normal advection), the effect of reverse shocks on the evolution of offset…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. C. de Jager , A. Djannati-Ataï

We investigate a class of pulsar wind nebulae that show synchrotron emission from a thick toroidal structure. The best studied such object is the small radio and X-ray nebula around the Vela pulsar, which can be interpreted as the result of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Roger A. Chevalier , Stephen P. Reynolds

We investigate effects of energetic pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) on dust formation and evolution. Dust emission has been observed in many supernova remnants that also have neutron stars as compact remnants. We study the dependence of dust…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Conor Omand , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kohta Murase

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) are bubbles or relativistic plasma that form when the pulsar wind is confined by the SNR or the ISM. Recent observations have shown a richness of emission features that has driven a renewed interest in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 N. Bucciantini