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Significant flares of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission from the Crab Nebula have been found by AGILE and Fermi-LAT years ago, indicating that extreme particle acceleration and radiation occurs in young pulsar wind nebulae. To enlarge the flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

We use a modified outer gap model to study the multi-frequency phase-resolved spectra of the Crab pulsar. The emissions from both poles contribute to the light curve and the phase-resolved spectra. Using the synchrotron self-Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Anisia P. S. Tang , J. Takata , J. J. Jia , K. S. Cheng

It is generally accepted that astrophysical sources cannot emit synchrotron radiation above 160 MeV in their rest frame. This limit is given by the balance between the accelerating electric force and the radiation reaction force acting on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Benoit Cerutti , Gregory R. Werner , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Mitchell C. Begelman

The recent discovery of PeV electrons from the Crab nebula, produced on rapid time scales of one day or less with a sharply peaked gamma-ray spectrum without hard X-rays, challenges traditional models of diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Peter Sturrock , Markus J. Aschwanden

We present a multicomponent model to explain the features of the pulsed emission and spectrum of the Crab Pulsar, on the basis of X and gamma-ray observations obtained with BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL and CGRO. This model explains the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Massaro , R. Campana , G. Cusumano , T. Mineo

We consider parametric generation of electrostatic waves in the magnetosphere of the pulsar PSR0531. It is shown that in the framework of this mechanism it is possible to convert the pulsar rotational energy into the energy of Langmuir…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-28 George Machabeli , Andria Rogava , David Shapakidze

(Abridged) We present high-resolution Chandra X-ray observations of PSR B0833-45, the 89 ms pulsar associated with the Vela supernova remnant. We have acquired two observations separated by one month to search for changes in the pulsar and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Helfand , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We present JWST observations of the Crab Nebula, the iconic remnant of the historical SN 1054. The observations include NIRCam and MIRI imaging mosaics, plus MIRI/MRS IFU spectra that probe two select locations within the ejecta filaments.…

The Crab Nebula is well-described at optical wavelengths and above by a steady-state magnetohydrodynamic model due to Kennel and Coroniti (1984). Can this class of model describe other pulsar-wind nebulae? I exhibit simple generalizations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen P. Reynolds

In 2007 September, the Crab Nebula exhibited a bright gamma-ray flare in the GeV energy range that was detected by AGILE. The observed emission at >160 MeV indicates that the radiating electrons had energies above the classical synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 John J. Kroon , Peter A. Becker , Justin D. Finke

The population of gamma-ray pulsars, including Crab observed in the TeV range, and Vela detected above 50 GeV, challenges existing models of pulsed high-energy emission. Such models should be universally applicable, yet they should account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Iwona Mochol , Jerome Petri

I. There is growing evidence that pulsars' high energy emission is generated via Inverse Compton mechanism. II. The particles producing Crab flares, and possibly most of the Crab Nebula's high energy emission, are accelerated via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Maxim Lyutikov

Multi-band emission from radio to ultra-high energy gamma-rays in the Crab Nebula has been detected. To explain the observed results, non-thermal photon production \textbf{in} the Crab Nebula is carefully studied in a spatially dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Qi-Yong Peng , Bi-Wen Bao , Fang-Wu Lu , Li Zhang

We report on gamma-ray observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula using 8 months of survey data with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The high quality light curve obtained using the ephemeris provided by the Nancay and Jodrell Bank…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Fermi LAT collaboration , the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium , : , A. A. Abdo

The Crab Nebula is a bright emitter of non-thermal radiation across the entire accessible range of wavelengths. The spatial and spectral structures of the synchrotron nebula are well-resolved from radio to hard X-ray emission. The un-pulsed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Paul K. H. Yeung , Dieter Horns

This paper deals with the Crab Nebula problem to suggest that particle acceleration takes place not only at the inner shock but also over a larger region in the nebula with disordered magnetic field. Kennel and Cornoniti (1984) constructed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Shibata , M. Tomatsuri , M. Shimanuki , K. Saito , Y. Nakamura , K. Mori

Recently the AGILE and Fermi/LAT detectors uncovered giant $\gamma$-ray flares from the Crab nebula. The duration of these flares is a few days. The Fermi/LAT data with monthly time binning further showed significant variability of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xue-Feng Wu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Siming Liu , Bing Zhang

The Crab Nebula and the Pulsar have been pointed several times by the BeppoSAX satellite. We analysed all these observations, summed together, to study the main spectral properties with a good phase resolution. A new accurate estimate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Massaro , G. Cusumano , M. Litterio , T. Mineo

The Crab pulsar has striking radio emission properties, with the two dominant pulse components -- the main pulse and the interpulse -- consisting entirely of giant pulses. The emission is scattered in both the Crab nebula and the…

It has been long debated whether the high-energy gamma-ray radiation from the Crab nebula stems from leptonic or hadronic processes. In this work, we investigate the multi-band non-thermal radiation from the Crab pulsar wind nebula with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang , Xiongfei Geng