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We detected X-ray emission from the 50-kyr-old pulsar J1809-1917 and resolved its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) with Chandra. The pulsar spectrum fits PL+BB model with the photon index of 1.2 and the BB temperature of 2 MK for n_{H}=0.7\times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov

We present X-ray spectral analysis of 20 point-like X-ray sources detected in Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey (ChanPlaNS) observations of 59 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the solar neighborhood. Most of these 20 detections are associated with…

Pulsars are known to be efficient accelerators that produce copious amounts of relativistic particles and inject them into the Galactic medium. The radiation emitted by such a pulsar wind can be seen from radio through gamma-rays as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleg Kargaltsev , George Pavlov

While supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered prime candidates as sources of cosmic rays, it is only recently that X-ray observations have identified several shell-type SNRs dominated by nonthermal emission, thus revealing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Slane

G54.1+0.3 is a young pulsar wind nebula (PWN), closely resembling the Crab, for which no thermal shell emission has been detected in X-rays. Recent Spitzer observations revealed an infrared (IR) shell containing a dozen point sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Tea Temim , Patrick Slane , Stephen P. Reynolds , John C. Raymond , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

A series of 13 Chandra observations provided the deepest images of the Vela PWN yet available. In addition to the fine structure of the inner PWN features, a much larger and fainter asymmetric X-ray nebula emerges in the summed images. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Kargaltsev , George Pavlov

We present observations of the pulsar-wind nebula (PWN) region ofSNR 0540-69.3. The observations were made with the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) in Bands 4 and 6. We also add radio observations from the Australia Compact Array (ATCA) at 3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 P. Lundqvist , N. Lundqvist , C. Vlahakis , C. -I. Björnsson , J. R. Dickel , M. Matsuura , Yu. A. Shibanov , D. A. Zyuzin , G. Olofsson

The 1968 discovery of the Crab and Vela pulsars in their respective supernova remnants (SNRs) confirmed Baade and Zwicky's 1934 prediction that supernovae form neutron stars. Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), particularly with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Samar Safi-Harb

The number of plausible associations of extended VHE (TeV) sources with pulsars has been steadily growing, suggesting that many of these sources are pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). Here we overview the recent progress in X-ray and TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov , Martin Durant

Young pulsars spin incredibly quickly, but are also slowing down at a very rapid rate. This process carries away enormous amounts of energy from the star in the form of a relativistic wind. Through the high resolution now offered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bryan M. Gaensler

This work presents a new detailed study on the energy-dependent variation in the X-ray polarisation of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), obtained using data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). For the entire PWN, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 Wenhao Wei , Fei Xie , Fabio La Monaca , Wei Deng , Mingyu Ge , Kuan Liu , Chao Zuo , Wei Chen

The evolution of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) depends on properties of the progenitor star, supernova, and surrounding environment. As some of these quantities are difficult to measure, reproducing the observed dynamical properties and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Soichiro Hattori , Samayra M. Straal , Emily Zhang , Tea Temim , Joseph D. Gelfand , Patrick O. Slane

We present the first phase-resolved study of the X-ray spectral properties of the Crab Pulsar that covers all pulse phases. The superb angular resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory enables distinguishing the pulsar from the…

We study four young Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) detected in TeV gamma-rays, G21.5-0.9, G54.1+0.3, Kes 75, and G0.9+0.1, using the spectral evolution model developed and applied to the Crab Nebula in our previous work. We model the evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

There is growing evidence that some variable high-energy gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae. We review the current status of X-ray and radio studies of the sources most likely to be significant emitters above 100 MeV.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mallory S. E. Roberts , Bryan M. Gaensler , Roger W. Romani

The excellent sensitivity and high resolution capability of wide FoV ground-based imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes allow us for the first time to resolve the morphological structures of pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) which are older and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. C. de Jager , C. Venter

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

The Crab Nebula demonstrates that neutron stars can interact with their environments in spectacular fashion, their relativistic winds generating nebulae observable across the electromagnetic spectrum. At many previous conferences,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bryan M. Gaensler

We model the morphology and spectrum of a pulsar wind nebula using a leptonic emission code. This code is a time-dependent, multi-zone model that investigates the changes in the particle spectrum as they traverse the nebula. We calculate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-01 Carlo van Rensburg , Christo Venter P. Paulus Kruger

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…

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