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We present extensive proper motion measurements of the Crab Nebula made from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope MegaPrime/MegaCam images taken in 2007, 2016, and 2019. A total of 19974 proper motion vectors with uncertainty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 T. Martin , D. Milisavljevic , T. Temim , S. Mandal , P. Duffell , L. Drissen , Z. Ding

We find that the remnant of supernova (SN) 1987A share some morphological features with four supernova remnants (SNRs) that have signatures of shaping by jets, and from that we strengthen the claim that jets played a crucial role in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

Under the assumption that jets explode all core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) I classify 14 CCSN remnants (CCSNRs) into five groups according to their morphology as shaped by jets, and attribute the classes to the specific angular momentum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Noam Soker

I further study the manner by which a pair of opposite jets shape the keyhole morphological structure of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) SN 1997A, now the CCSN remnant (CCSNR) 1987A. By doing so, I strengthen the claim that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Noam Soker

I compare to each other what I consider to be the two most promising scenarios to explode core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Both are based on the negative jet feedback mechanism (JFM). In the jittering jets scenario a collapsing core of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Noam Soker

We compare the morphology of the core collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) W49B with the morphology of many planetary nebulae (PNe), and deduce the orientation of the jets that shaped this CCSNR and estimate their energy. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

We show that the morphology of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant RCW 103 is very similar to the morphology of the brightest regions in the recently released JWST IR images of the jet-shaped planetary nebula (PN) PMR 1, and conclude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Aleksei Klimov , Noam Soker

The gamma ray flares of the Crab nebula detected by Fermi and AGILE satellites challenge our understanding of physics of pulsars and their nebulae. The central problem is that the peak energy of the flares exceeds the maximum energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yuto Teraki , Fumio Takahara

What sort of supernova gave rise to the Crab Nebula? There are several indications that the Crab arose from a sub-energetic explosion of an 8-10 Msun star, this appears to conflict with the high luminosity indicated by historical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Nathan Smith

By examining recently published images in different wavelengths, I identify a point-symmetric morphology in the Large Magellanic Cloud core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant (CCSNR) J0450.4-7050 (SNR 0450-70.9; nicknamed Veliki), which I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Noam Soker

I examine high-quality CO and SiO molecular maps of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant SN 1987A from the literature and find that the molecular gas exhibits a bipolar structure, correlated with the visible bipolar morphology (termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Noam Soker

Recent discoveries of the intriguing ``jet-torus'' structure in the Crab Nebula and other pulsar nebulae prompted calls for re-examining of their theory. The most radical proposals involve abolishing of the MHD approximation altogether and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. S. Komissarov , Y. E. Lyubarsky

We study the flow structure in the jittering-jets explosion model of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) using 2.5D hydrodynamical simulations and find that some basic requirements for explosion are met by the flow. In the jittering-jets model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Papish , Noam Soker

I review studies of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and similar transient events that attribute major roles to jets in powering most CCSNe and in shaping their ejecta. I start with reviewing the jittering jets explosion mechanism that I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Noam Soker

I demonstrate the usage of planetary nebulae (PNe) to infer that a pair of jets shaped the ejecta of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) SN 1987A. The main structure of the SN 1987A inner ejecta, the keyhole, comprised two low-intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 Noam Soker

The unusually short durations, high luminosities, and high photon energies of the Crab Nebula gamma-ray flares require relativistic bulk motion of the emitting plasma. We explain the Crab flares as the result of randomly oriented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Eric Clausen-Brown , Maxim Lyutikov

We identify a point-symmetric morphology of three pairs of ears/clumps in the core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) Puppis A, supporting the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). In the JJEM, the three pairs of jets that shaped the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Ealeal Bear , Dmitry Shishkin , Noam Soker

The remarkable Crab Nebula is powered by an energetic pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with the inner parts of the Supernova Remnant SN1054. Despite low-intensity optical and X-ray variations in the inner Nebula, the Crab has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-07 Marco Tavani

We develop a model of gamma-ray flares of the Crab Nebula resulting from the magnetic reconnection events in highly-magnetized relativistic plasma. We first discuss physical parameters of the Crab nebula and review the theory of pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Maxim Lyutikov , Serguei Komissarov , Lorenzo Sironi , Oliver Porth

I estimate the frequencies of gravitational waves from jittering jets that explode core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) to crudely be 5-30 Hz, and with strains that might allow detection of Galactic CCSNe. The jittering jets explosion mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Noam Soker