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Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are important sources for understanding galactic high-energy processes, but it is controversial until now about how high-energy particles in PWNe are accelerated and transported. Lacking radio counterparts of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yu Zhang , Yihan Liu , C. -Y. Ng , Mallory S. E. Roberts , Lili Yang

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

We present a multifrequency radio investigation of the Crab-like pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G54.1+0.3 using the Very Large Array. The high resolution of the observations reveals that G54.1+0.3 has a complex radio structure which includes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Cornelia C. Lang , Q. Daniel Wang , Fangjun Lu , Kelsey Clubb

PSR B1706$-$44 is an energetic gamma-ray pulsar located inside supernova remnant (SNR) G343.1$-$2.3 and it powers a compact pulsar wind nebula (PWN) that shows torus and jet structure in X-rays. We present a radio study of the PWN using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Y. H. Liu , C. -Y. Ng , R. Dodson

In this paper, we present a full spatially resolved polarization map for the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) observed by IXPE. By employing effective background discrimination techniques, our results show a remarkably high degree of local…

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) we have imaged the fields around five promising pulsar candidates to search for radio pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). We have used the ATCA in its pulsar gating mode; this enables an image to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. W. Stappers , B. M. Gaensler , S. Johnston

We have conducted a radio study at 3.6, 6 and 20 cm using ATCA and VLA and reprocessed XMM-Newton and Chandra data of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the supernova remnant (SNR) G0.9+0.1. The new observations revealed that the morphology…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gloria Dubner , Elsa Giacani , Anne Decourchelle

The Dragonfly Nebula (G75.2$+$0.1) powered by the young pulsar J2021$+$3651 is a rare pulsar wind nebula (PWN) that shows double tori and polar jets enclosed by a bow-shock structure in X-rays. We present new radio observations of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Ruolan Jin , C. -Y. Ng , Mallory S. E. Roberts , Kwan-Lok Li

We present a radio polarimetric study of the Boomerang pulsar wind nebula G106.65+2.96 with VLA observations at the 6 GHz band. Our high-resolution image discovers new small-scale features in the nebula, including an elliptical core of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Paul C. W. Lai , Chi-Yung Ng , Shumeng Zhang

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 report the results of a 50 ks Chandra observation of the recently discovered radio object G141.2+5.0, presumed to be a pulsar-wind nebula. We find a moderately bright unresolved X-ray source which we designate CXOU J033712.8 615302…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

The evolution of pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) influences how high energy particles in the vicinity are generated and transport. The Vela PWN (only $\sim300$\,pc away), provides a rather rare case between young and well-evolved systems. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Yihan Liu , Yu Zhang , C. -Y. Ng , Zijian Qiu , Sujie Lin , Lili Yang

We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023, with a total livetime of approximately 837 ks. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Niccolò Di Lalla , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Bucciantini , Jack T. Dinsmore , Nicolò Cibrario , Stefano Silvestri , Josephine Wong , Patrick Slane , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Roger W. Romani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Stephen Chi-Yung Ng , Miltiadis Michailidis , Yi-Jung Yang , Fei Xie , Martin C. Weisskopf , Philip Kaaret , Iván Agudo , L. A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting J. Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Fre'de'ric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Stephen L. O'Dell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgro , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

The supernova remnant SNR 0540-69.3, twin of the Crab Nebula, offers an excellent opportunity to study the continuum emission from a young pulsar and pulsar-wind nebula (PWN). We present observations taken with the VLT instruments MUSE and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 L. Tenhu , J. Larsson , J. Sollerman , P. Lundqvist , J. Spyromilio , J. D. Lyman , G. Olofsson

We present preliminary results from a systematic spectral study of pulsars and their wind nebulae using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The superb spatial resolution of Chandra allows us to differentiate the compact object's spectrum from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Gotthelf , C. M. Olbert

We present observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the energetic young pulsar B1509-58. These data confirm the complicated morphology of the system indicated by previous observations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Gaensler , J. Arons , V. M. Kaspi , M. J. Pivovaroff , N. Kawai , K. Tamura

In the last decade, ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have discovered about 175 very-high-energy (VHE; $E >$ 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources, with more to follow with the development of H.E.S.S. II and CTA. Nearly 40 of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-02 Carlo van Rensburg , Christo Venter , Paulus Kruger

We have constructed and calibrated a spherically-symmetric, spatially-dependent particle transport and emission code for young pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). This code predicts the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the radiation spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-20 Carlo van Rensburg , Christo Venter

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 results from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the radio pulsar B1046-58. A high-resolution spatial analysis reveals an asymmetric pulsar wind nebula (PWN) ~6"x11" in size. The combined emission from the pulsar and its PWN…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. E. Gonzalez , V. M. Kaspi , M. J. Pivovaroff , B. M. Gaensler
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