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We use new and archival Chandra and ROSAT data to study the time variability of the X-ray emission from the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by PSR B1509-58 on timescales of one week to twelve years. There is variability in the size,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. DeLaney , B. M. Gaensler , J. Arons , M. J. Pivovaroff

We report on the analysis of a deep Chandra observation of the high-magnetic field pulsar (PSR) J1119-6127 and its compact pulsar wind nebula (PWN) taken in October 2019, three years after the source went into outburst. The 0.5-7 keV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Harsha Blumer , Samar Safi-Harb , Alice Borghese , Jonatan Martín , Maura A. McLaughlin , Diego F. Torres , George Younes

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

HESS J1809-193 is an extended TeV $\gamma$-ray source and the origin of its $\gamma$-ray emission remains ambiguous. Pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of PSR J1809-1917 laying inside the extended $\gamma$-ray emission is a possible candidate.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Chao-Ming Li , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

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 detected X-ray emission from PSR B1800-21 and its synchrotron nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The pulsar's observed flux is (1.4+/-0.2) 10^{-14} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 1-6 keV band. The spectrum can be described by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , G. P. Garmire

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

We present deep Chandra observations of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by PSR J0007+7303 in the composite supernova remnant CTA 1. The merged ACIS image shows a $\sim20''$ jet extending south of the pulsar and bending toward the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Seth Gagnon , Oleg Kargaltsev , Jason Alford , Joseph Gelfand , Alexander Lange

PSR J1101-6101 is an energetic young pulsar which powers the remarkable Lighthouse pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The pulsar belongs to the rare type of radio- and gamma-ray-quiet pulsars which are bright in hard X-rays. Moreover, the Lighthouse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Noel Klingler , Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , John Tomsick

PSR J1833-1034 and its associated Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) has been investigated in depth through X-ray observations ranging from 0.1 to 200 keV. The low energy X-ray data from Chandra reveal a complex morphology that is characterised by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. De Rosa , P. Ubertini , R. Campana , A. Bazzano , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani

We present observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the energetic young pulsar B1509-58. These data confirm the complicated morphology of the system indicated by previous observations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Gaensler , J. Arons , V. M. Kaspi , M. J. Pivovaroff , N. Kawai , K. Tamura

We present high resolution VLA images taken at the wavelengths of lambda 20 cm, lambda 6 cm, and lambda 3.6 cm in the vicinity of the pulsars PSR B1706-44 (PSR J1709-4428) and PSR B1643-43 (PSR J1646-4346). Both of these pulsars are young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Giacani , D. A. Frail , W. M. Goss , M. Vieytes

We have obtained a deep 670 ks CXO ACIS image of the remarkable pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of PSR J1709-4429, in 4 epochs during 2018-2019. Comparison with an archival 2004 data set provides a pulsar proper motion mu = 13 \pm 3 mas/yr at a PA…

We report new Chandra X-ray observations of the shell supernova remnant (SNR) Kes 75 (G29.7-0.3) containing a pulsar and pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). Expansion of the PWN is apparent across the four epochs, 2000, 2006, 2009, and 2016. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski , Peter H. Gwynne

The nearby, middle-aged PSR B1055-52 has many properties in common with the Geminga pulsar. Motivated by the Geminga's enigmatic and prominent pulsar wind nebula (PWN), we searched for extended emission around PSR B1055-52 with Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 B. Posselt , G. Spence , G. G. Pavlov

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of the very high energy $\gamma$-ray source HESS$ $J1640-465. We identify a point source surrounded by a diffuse emission that fills the extended object previously detected by XMM Newton at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Lemiere , P. Slane , B. M. Gaensler , S. Murray

PSR J1509-5850 is a middle-aged pulsar with the period P ~ 89 ms, spin-down power Edot = 5.1 x 10^35 erg/s, at a distance of about 3.8 kpc. We report on deep Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of this pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Noel Klingler , Oleg Kargaltsev , Blagoy Rangelov , George G. Pavlov , Bettina Posselt , C. -Y. Ng

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

We report on broadband X-ray properties of the Rabbit pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with the pulsar PSR J1418-6058 using archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data, and a new NuSTAR observation. NuSTAR data above 10 keV allowed us to detect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Jaegeun Park , Chanho Kim , Jooyun Woo , Hongjun An , 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