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The dynamics, energetics and evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs), are strongly affected by their magnetic field strength and distribution. They are usually strong, extended, sources of non-thermal X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , J. Vink , A. Bykov , R. Zanin , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato , R. Bandiera , B. Olmi , Yu. Uvarov

Among dozens young pulsar wind nebulae, some have been detected in TeV \gamma-rays (TeV PWNe), while others have not (non-TeV PWNe). The TeV emission detectability is not correlated either with the spin-down power or with the characteristic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

The most numerous source class that emerged from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). The 2013 reanalysis of this survey, undertaken after almost 10 years of observations, provides us with the most sensitive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Klepser , S. Carrigan , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , C. Deil , A. Förster , V. Marandon , M. Mayer , K. Stycz , K. Valerius

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.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick Slane

Synchrotron X-ray emission from a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) is a sensitive probe of its magnetic field and high-energy particle population. Here we analyze contemporaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the PWN G54.1+0.3, powered by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 J. A. J. Alford , G. -B. Zhang , J. D. Gelfand

High-energy particle transport in pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) plays an essential role in explaining the characteristics revealed in multiwavelength observations. In this paper, the TeV-gamma-ray-emitting electrons in the Vela X PWN are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-04 Yiwei Bao , Siming Liu , Yang Chen

Planetary nebulae (PNe) consist of an ionized envelope surrounding a hot central star (CSPN) that emits mostly at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths. Ultraviolet observations, therefore, provide important information on both the CSPN and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 M. A. Gómez-Muñoz , L. Bianchi , A. Manchado

Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the only single stars in galaxies outside the Local Group that can be used as kinematic tracers of the diffuse light in the extended halo. Analysing their luminosity-specific number density across galaxies of…

We studied the PeVatron nature of the pulsar wind nebula G75.2+0.1 ("Dragonfly") as part of our NuSTAR observational campaign of energetic PWNe. The Dragonfly is spatially coincident with LHAASO J2018+3651 whose maximum photon energy is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Jooyun Woo , Hongjun An , Joseph D. Gelfand , Charles J. Hailey , Kaya Mori , Reshmi Mukherjee , Samar Safi-Harb , Tea Temim

A remarkable number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) are coincident with EGRET gamma-ray sources. X-ray and radio imaging studies of unidentified EGRET sources have resulted in the discovery of at least 6 new pulsar wind nebulae (PWN).…

(shortened) PSR J1119-6127 is a high magnetic field (B=4.1E13 Gauss), young (<=1,700 year-old), and slow (P=408 ms) radio pulsar associated with the supernova remnant (SNR) G292.2-0.5. In 2003, Chandra allowed the detection of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Samar Safi-Harb , Harsha S. Kumar

The state of the art of optical studies of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) and their Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) is reviewed. In addition, results obtained from recent HST and VLT observations are presented and discussed.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto P. Mignani , Andrea De Luca , Patrizia A. Caraveo

While pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and their associated isolated pulsars are commonly detected at X-ray energies, they are much rarer at near infrared (nIR) and optical wavelengths. Here we examine three PWN systems in the Galactic plane -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 P. A. Curran , S. Chaty , J. A. Zurita Heras , A. Coleiro

We present an investigation of the spectral and spatial structure of the X-ray emission from 3C 58 based on a 350 ks observation with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This deep image, obtained as part of the Chandra Large Project program,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Slane , David J. Helfand , Eric van der Swaluw , Stephen S. Murray

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are suggested to be acceleration sites of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. While the magnetic field plays an important role in the acceleration process, previous observations of magnetic field configurations of PWNe are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Y. K. Ma , C. -Y. Ng , N. Bucciantini , P. O. Slane , B. M. Gaensler , T. Temim

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton (IC) emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar (as well as its shell-type remnant), but it also exceeds the age of those that emit via synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 O. Tibolla , M. Vorster , O. de Jager , S. E. S. Ferreira , S. Kaufmann , C. Venter , K. Mannheim , F. Giordano

We study the transport of high-energy particles in pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) using three-dimensional MHD (see Porth et al. (2014) for details) and test-particle simulations, as well as a Fokker-Planck particle transport model. The latter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 O. Porth , M. J. Vorster , M. Lyutikov , N. E. Engelbrecht

In the era of Chandra and XMM-Newton, the detection (or nondetection) of diffuse and/or point-like X-ray sources within planetary nebulae (PNe) yields important, unique insight into PN shaping processes. Diffuse X-ray sources, whether due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-27 Joel H. Kastner

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the dominant Ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources in the LHAASO catalog suggesting that they are the dominant leptonic PeVatrons in our Galaxy. Despite this, still very little is known about their UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti , Dmitri Semikoz
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