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The Vela pulsar is the brightest pulsar at radio wavelengths. It was the object that told us (via its glitching) that pulsars were solid rotating bodies not oscillating ones. Along with the Crab pulsar is it the source of many of the models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Dodson , D. Legge , J. E. Reynolds , P. M. McCulloch

(shortened) PSR J1119-6127 is a high magnetic field (B=4.1E13 Gauss), young (<=1,700 year-old), and slow (P=408 ms) radio pulsar associated with the supernova remnant (SNR) G292.2-0.5. In 2003, Chandra allowed the detection of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Samar Safi-Harb , Harsha S. Kumar

We report on very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the radio emission from the inner region of the Crab Nebula, made at 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz after a recent high-energy flare in this object. The 5 GHz data have provided only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 A. P. Lobanov , D. Horns , T. W. B. Muxlow

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 present a $\sim$130 ks observation of the prototypical wind-accreting, high-mass X-ray binary Vela X-1 collected with XMM-Newton at orbital phases between 0.12 and 0.28. A strong flare took place during the observation that allows us to…

The stellar wind around the compact object in luminous wind-accreting high mass X-ray binaries is expected to be strongly ionized with the X-rays coming from the compact object. The stellar wind of hot stars is mostly driven by light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , S. Nakahira , T. Mihara , M. Sugizaki , M. Matsuoka , M. Nakajima , K. Makishima

We present an in-depth analysis of the spectral and temporal behavior of a long almost uninterrupted INTEGRAL observation of Vela X-1 in Nov/Dec 2003. In addition to an already high activity level, Vela X-1 exhibited several very intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-30 I. Kreykenbohm , J. Wilms , P. Kretschmar , J. M. Torrejon , K. Pottschmidt , M. Hanke , A. Santangelo , C. Ferrigno , R. Staubert

We report on the 20 ksec observation of Vela X-1 performed by BeppoSAX on 1996 July 14 during its Science Verification Phase. We observed the source in two intensity states, characterized by a change in luminosity of a factor ~ 2, and a…

Pulse profiles probe the emission geometry of accreting X-ray pulsars, but their observed shapes may depend on instrumental response and observational setup. The pulsed fraction spectrum provides a compact spectro-timing observable that can…

PSR J1357-6429 is a Vela-like radio pulsar that has been recently detected with Chandra and Fermi, which, like Vela, powers a compact X-ray pulsar wind nebula and X-ray-radio plerion associated with an extended TeV source. We present our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-11 Aida Kirichenko , Andrey Danilenko , Ronald E. Mennickent , George Pavlov , Yury Shibanov , Sergey Zharikov , Dmitry Zyuzin

Recent observations of the Vela pulsar have revealed a peculiar connection of its emission in the soft X-ray and radio ranges. We suggest the model of the radio pulse formation in the Vela pulsar, develop the theory of the radio photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

We present new high-resolution radio and X-ray observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) B0453-685 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, carried out with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Chandra X-ray Observatory respectively.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Gaensler , S. P. Hendrick , S. P. Reynolds , K. J. Borkowski

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are one of the most energetic galactic sources with bright emissions from radio waves to very high-energy gamma-rays. We perform wideband X-ray spectroscopy of four energetic PWNe, N157B, PSR J1813-1749, PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Aya Bamba , Shinpei Shibata , Shuta J. Tanaka , Koji Mori , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yukikatsu Terada , Wataru Ishizaki

We report on the spectral (pulse averaged) and timing analysis of the ~ 20 ksec observation of the X-ray binary pulsar Vela X-1 performed during the BeppoSAX Science Verification Phase. The source was observed in two different intensity…

High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) offer a unique opportunity for the investigation of accretion onto compact objects and of wind structure in massive stars. A key source for such studies is the bright neutron star HMXB Vela X-1 whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 C. M. Diez , V. Grinberg , F. Fürst , I. El Mellah , M. Zhou , A. Santangelo , S. Martínez-Núñez , R. Amato , N. Hell , P. Kretschmar

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

Pinpointing a pulsar in its parent supernova remnant (SNR) or resulting pulsar wind nebula (PWN) is key for understanding its formation history, and the pulsar wind mechanism. Yet, only about half the SNRs and PWNe appear associated with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Samayra Straal , Joeri van Leeuwen

The Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) 3C 58 is energized by one of the highest spin-down power pulsars known (5% of Crab pulsar) and it has been compared to the Crab Nebula due to their morphological similarities. This object was detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-07 O. Blanch Bigas , R. Lopez , E. Carmona , MAGIC Collaboration , M. A. Pérez-Torres

Global VLBI observations at 5 GHz have been performed to study the source morphology in 10 compact steep-spectrum (CSS) sources selected from the Peacock & Wall catalogue with the aim of finding asymmetric structures produced by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Dallacasa , M. Orienti , C. Fanti , R. Fanti , C. Stanghellini

Bright and eclipsing, the high-mass X-ray binary Vela X-1 offers a unique opportunity to study accretion onto a neutron star from clumpy winds of O/B stars and to disentangle the complex accretion geometry of these systems. In Chandra-HETGS…