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We present the first images of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) MSH 15-52 in the hard X-ray band (>8 keV), as measured with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Overall, the morphology of the PWN as measured by NuSTAR in the 3-7…

We model the morphology and spectrum of a pulsar wind nebula using a leptonic emission code. This code is a time-dependent, multi-zone model that investigates the changes in the particle spectrum as they traverse the nebula. We calculate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-01 Carlo van Rensburg , Christo Venter P. Paulus Kruger

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

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) constitute an ideal astrophysical environment to test our current understanding of relativistic plasma processes. It is well known that magnetic fields play a crucial role in their dynamics and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 N. Bucciantini , R. Bandiera , B. Olmi , L. Del Zanna

The synchrotron-emitting nebulae formed by energetic winds from young pulsars provide information on a wide range phenomena that contribute to their structure. High resolution X-ray observations reveal jets and toroidal structures in many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Patrick Slane

We present here the first effort to compute synthetic synchrotron polarization maps of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). Our goal is to highlight how polarization can be used as an additional diagnostic tool for the flow structure in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna , E. amato , D. Volpi

Context. Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are a source of very high energy radiation that can reach up to tera-electron volts and even peta-electron volts. Our work uses the pulsar tree, a graph theory tool recently presented to analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Wei Zhang , Diego F. Torres , C. R. García , J. Li , Enrique Mestre

Produced by the interaction between the ``pulsar wind'' powered by the rotational energy of a neutron star and its surroundings, the study of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) provides vital insight into the physics of neutron star magnetospheres…

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

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

Observations of the Vela pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a complex, variable PWN structure, including inner and outer arcs, a jet in the direction of the pulsar's proper motion, and a counter-jet in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. G. Pavlov , M. A. Teter , O. Kargaltsev , D. Sanwal

We study four young Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) detected in TeV gamma-rays, G21.5-0.9, G54.1+0.3, Kes 75, and G0.9+0.1, using the spectral evolution model developed and applied to the Crab Nebula in our previous work. We model the evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

The increasing sensitivity of instruments at X-ray and TeV energies have revealed a large number of nebulae associated with bright pulsars. Despite this large data set, the observed pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) do not show a uniform behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-25 Diego F. Torres , Analía Cillis , Jonatan Martín , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi

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

In the recent paper we calculated the $\gamma$-ray spectra from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), assuming that a significant amount of the pulsar rotational energy is converted into relativistic nuclei. These nuclei accelerate leptons which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bednarek

X-ray polarization observations of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) provide crucial insights into magnetic field structures and particle acceleration mechanisms. While the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has made significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Kuan Liu , Fei Xie , Ming-Yu Ge , Wei Deng , En-Wei Liang

Energetic pulsars power winds of relativistic leptons which produce photon nebulae (so- called pulsar wind nebulae, PWNe). Their spectral energy distribution has a double-humped structure: the first hump lies in the X-ray regime, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-16 M. Mayer , J. Brucker , M. Holler , I. Jung , K. Valerius , C. Stegmann

We review multiwavelength properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) created by supersonically moving pulsars and the effects of pulsar motion on the PWN morphologies and the ambient medium. Supersonic pulsar wind nebulae (SPWNe) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Noel Klingler , Blagoy Rangelov

The model for pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) as the result of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) downstream flow from a shocked, relativistic pulsar wind has been successful in reproducing many features of the nebulae observed close to the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Xiaping Tang , Roger A. Chevalier

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 knowledg derived in their study has a strong impact in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-25 N. Bucciantini