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The first detected gravitational wave GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger is associated with an important optical transient AT 2017gfo, which is a direct observation of kilonova. Recent observations suggest that the remnant compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Jia Ren , Da-Bin Lin , Lu-Lu Zhang , Xiao-Yan Li , Tong Liu , Rui-Jing Lu , Xiang-Gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

In an effort to better understand the evolution of composite supernova remnants (SNRs) and the eventual fate of relativistic particles injected by their pulsars, we present a multifaceted investigation of the interaction between a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Tea Temim , Patrick Slane , Christopher Kolb , John Blondin , John P. Hughes , Niccolo Bucciantini

We report the detection of high energy gamma-ray emission from the young and energetic pulsar PSR B1509$-$58 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the composite supernova remnant SNR G320.4-1.2 (aka MSH 15-52). Using 1 year of survey data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium

We obtained a 108 ks Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) observation of PSR J1849-0001 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN), coincident with the TeV source HESS J1849-000. By analyzing the new and archival CXO data, we resolved the pulsar from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Seth Gagnon , Oleg Kargaltsev , Noel Klingler , Jeremy Hare , Hui Yang , Alexander Lange , Jordan Eagle

HESS J1825-137 was detected with a significance of 8.1 $\sigma$ in the Galactic Plane survey conducted with the H.E.S.S. instrument in 2004. Both HESS J1825-137 and the X-ray pulsar wind nebula G18.0--0.7 (associated with the Vela-like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 O. C. de Jager , S. Funk , J. Hinton

Aims: PSR J0855-4644 is a fast-spinning, energetic pulsar discovered at radio wavelengths near the south-eastern rim of the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622. A follow-up observation revealed the pulsar's X-ray counterpart and a slightly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Chandreyee Maitra , Fabio Acero , Christo Venter

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).…

The faint radio supernova remnant SNR G315.9-0.0 is notable for a long and thin trail that extends outward perpendicular from the edge of its approximately circular shell. In a search with the Parkes telescope we have found a young and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Camilo , C. -Y. Ng , B. M. Gaensler , S. M. Ransom , S. Chatterjee , J. Reynolds , J. Sarkissian

We present broad-band X-ray spectroscopy of the energetic components that make up the supernova remnant (SNR) Kesteven 75 using concurrent 2017 Aug 17-20 XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations, during which the pulsar PSR J1846-0258 is found to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 E. V. Gotthelf , S. Safi-Harb , S. M. Straal , J. D. Gelfand

We report the discovery of a new Small Magellanic Cloud Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) at the edge of the Supernova Remnant (SNR)-DEM S5. The pulsar powered object has a cometary morphology similar to the Galactic PWN analogs PSR B1951+32 and…

We report the discovery of a partial ~2deg. diameter non-thermal radio shell coincident with Taz, the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the error box of the apparently variable gamma-ray source 3EG J1809-2328. We propose that this radio shell is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mallory S. E. Roberts , Crystal L. Brogan

We describe new measurements of the remarkable H$\alpha$/UV/X-ray bowshock and pulsar wind nebula of the isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J2124$-$3358. {\it CXO} imaging shows a one-sided jet structure with a softer equatorial outflow. KOALA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Roger W. Romani , Patrick Slane , Andrew Green

We report on two Chandra observations of the 3-Myr pulsar B1929+10, which reveal a faint compact (~9"x5") nebula elongated in the direction perpendicular to the pulsar's proper motion, two patchy wings, and a possible short (~3") jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zdenka Misanovic , George Pavlov , Gordon Garmire

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) studies with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have opened a new window to address the physics of pulsar winds, zoom on their interaction with their hosting supernova remnant (SNR) and interstellar medium, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Matheson , S. Safi-Harb , R. Kothes

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

We report the discovery of a diffuse radio emission around PSR J0855--4644 using an upgraded GMRT (uGMRT) observation at 1.35 GHz. The radio emission is spatially coincident with the diffuse X-ray pulsar wind nebula (PWN) seen with XMM but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 C. Maitra , S. Roy , F. Acero , Y. Gupta

We report on six new Chandra observations of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula (PWN). The PWN consists of three distinct elongated structures - two $\approx 0.2 d_{250}$ pc long lateral tails and a segmented axial tail of $\approx 0.05…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 B. Posselt , G. G. Pavlov , P. O. Slane , R. Romani , N. Bucciantini , A. M. Bykov , O. Kargaltsev , M. C. Weisskopf , C. -Y. Ng

During the search for counterparts of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources, we serendipitously discovered large, extended, low surface brightness emission from PWNe around pulsars with the ages up to ~100 kyrs, a discovery made possible by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Aya Bamba , Takayasu Anada , Tadayasu Dotani , Koji Mori , Ryo Yamazaki , Ken Ebisawa , Jacco Vink

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar, but it exceeds also the age of the electrons that emit via synchrotron radiation; i.e. during the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 O. Tibolla , K. Mannheim , D. Elsässer , S. Kaufmann

In this work, we study the X-ray bow-shock nebula powered by the mature pulsar PSR B1929+10 using data from XMM-Newton, with an effective exposure of $\sim$ 300 ks, offering the deepest investigation of this system thus far. We found the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Sangin Kim , C. Y. Hui , Jongsu Lee , Kwangmin Oh , L. C. C. Lin , J. Takata