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Gamma radiation from the Crab pulsar wind nebula (PWN) shows significant variability at $\sim100$ MeV energies, recently revealed with spaceborne gamma-ray telescopes. Here we report the results of a systematic search for gamma-ray flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Masanori Arakawa , Masaaki Hayashida , Dmitry Khangulyan , Yasunobu Uchiyama

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

We present high resolution VLA images taken at the wavelengths of lambda 20 cm, lambda 6 cm, and lambda 3.6 cm in the vicinity of the pulsars PSR B1706-44 (PSR J1709-4428) and PSR B1643-43 (PSR J1646-4346). Both of these pulsars are young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Giacani , D. A. Frail , W. M. Goss , M. Vieytes

We have carried out a detailed study of the spectral nature of six pulsars surrounded by Pulsar wind nebulae (PWN). The pulsar flux density were estimated using the interferometric imaging technique of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Rahul Basu , Karolina Rożko , Jarosław Kijak , Wojciech Lewandowski

A significative fraction of high mass stars sail away through the interstellar medium of the galaxies. Once they evolved and died via a core collapse supernova, a magnetized, rotating neutron star (a pulsar) is usually their leftover. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 D. M. A. Meyer , Z Meliani , D. F. Torres

We calculate the X-ray emission from the shocked fast wind blown by the central stars of planetary nebulae (PNs) and compare with observations. Using spherically symmetric self similar solutions, we calculate the flow structure and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker , Ehud Behar

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) produced from supersonic runaway pulsars can render extended X-ray structures in the form of tails and prominent jets. In this Letter we report on the analysis of $\sim$130 ks observations of the PWN around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Pol Bordas , Xiying Zhang

We communicate the detection of soft (20--200 keV) gamma-rays from the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula of PSR J1846-0258 and aim to identify the component of the system which is responsible for the gamma-ray emission. To pinpoint the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. McBride , A. J. Dean , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. De Rosa , R. Landi , V. Sguera , A. Malizia

The pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with the Vela pulsar is a bright source in the radio, X-ray and gamma-ray bands, but not in the optical. This source is very near, lying at a distance of 290 pc, as inferred from the radio and optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-05 T. E. Marubini , R. R. Sefako , C. Venter , O. C. de Jager

We review properties of Galactic VHE sources detected at TeV energies. The number of associations between the VHE sources and pulsars has grown in recent years, making pulsar-wind nebulae the dominant population, although there is still a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-14 Oleg Kargaltsev , Blagoy Rangelov , George G. Pavlov

We present the results of the uniform analysis of 46 XMM-Newton observations of six BAL and seven mini-BAL QSOs belonging to the Palomar-Green Quasar catalogue. Moderate-quality X-ray spectroscopy was performed with the EPIC-pn, and allowed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Margherita Giustini

In the last decade ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have discovered roughly 30 pulsar wind nebulae at energies above 100 GeV. We present first results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-21 C. van Rensburg , P. P. Kruger , C. Venter

We report on the analysis of a deep Chandra observation of the high-magnetic field pulsar (PSR) J1119-6127 and its compact pulsar wind nebula (PWN) taken in October 2019, three years after the source went into outburst. The 0.5-7 keV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Harsha Blumer , Samar Safi-Harb , Alice Borghese , Jonatan Martín , Maura A. McLaughlin , Diego F. Torres , George Younes

We report on a Chandra observation of the Crab Nebula that gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab's X-ray-emitting Pulsar Wind Nebula, or PWN. There is structure in all directions. Fingers, loops, bays, and the South…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. D. Seward , W. H. Tucker , R. A. Fesen

The vast majority of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) present in the Galaxy is formed by middle-aged systems characterized by a strong interaction of the PWN itself with the supernova remnant (SNR). Unfortunately, modelling these systems can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 R. Bandiera , N. Bucciantini , B. Olmi , D. F. Torres

Recent X-ray observations have proved to be very effective in detecting previously unknown supernova remnant shells around pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), and in these cases the characteristics of the shell provide further clues on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Bocchino , R. Bandiera , J. Gelfand

We discuss the role of particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations in unveiling the origin of the emitting particles in PWNe. After describing the basics of the PIC technique, we summarize its implications for the quiescent and the flaring emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Lorenzo Sironi , Benoit Cerutti

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

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

In this paper, we analyze the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 17 powerful (with a spin-down luminosity greater than $10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$) young (with an age less than 15000 yrs) pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) using a simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-04 Yi-Ming Liu , Hou-Dun Zeng , Yu-Liang Xin , Si-Ming Liu , Yi Zhang
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