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In this work, we study theoretical and observational issues about pulsars (PSRs), pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs). In particular, the spectral modeling of young PWNe and the X-ray analysis of SNRs with magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 J. Martin

Bow shock pulsar wind nebulae (BSPWNe) are know to show a large variety of shapes and morphologies, both when comparing different objects, and for the same object in different energy bands. It is unclear if such a variety is related to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Barbara Olmi , Niccolo' Bucciantini

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), structures powered by energetic pulsars, are known for their detection across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with diverse morphologies and spectral behaviour between these bands. The temporal evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 A. M. W. Mitchell , J. Gelfand

Produced by the interaction between the ``pulsar wind'' powered by the rotational energy of a neutron star and its surroundings, the study of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) provides vital insight into the physics of neutron star magnetospheres…

The hard X-ray synchrotron emission from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) probes energetic particles, closely related to the pulsar injection power at the present time. INTEGRAL has disclosed the yet poorly known population of hard X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Fabio Mattana , Diego Götz , Régis Terrier , Matthieu Renaud , Maurizio Falanga

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…

Bow shock pulsar wind nebulae are observed with a variety of complex morphologies at different wavelengths, most likely due to differences in the magnetic field strength and pulsar wind geometry. Here we present a detailed analysis, showing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 B. Olmi , N. Bucciantini

Pulsars, formed during supernova explosions, are known to be sources of relativistic magnetized winds whose interaction with the expanding supernova remnants (SNRs) gives rise to a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). We present spherically symmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Bucciantini , J. M. Blondin , L. Del Zanna , E. Amato

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 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

We performed a spatially resolved spectral X-ray study of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. Furthermore we modeled its nonthermal emission in the X-ray and very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray regime.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-25 M. Holler , F. M. Schöck , P. Eger , D. Kießling , K. Valerius , C. Stegmann

Recent observations suggest that many old pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are bright TeV gamma-ray sources without a strong X-ray counterpart. In this paper, we study the spectral evolution of PWNe taking into account the energy which was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 S. J. Tanaka , F. Takahara

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

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

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

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), formed when the wind originating from a rapidly rotating neutron star flows out into its surroundings, have now been observed across the electromagnetic spectrum from the radio to the PeV gamma-ray regime. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer

We present here a series of numerical simulations of the development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a relativistically hot plasma. The physical parameters in the unperturbed state are chosen to be representative of local conditions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

The increasing sensitivity of instruments at X-ray and TeV energies have revealed a large number of nebulae associated with bright pulsars. Despite this large data set, the observed pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) do not show a uniform behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-25 Diego F. Torres , Analía Cillis , Jonatan Martín , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi

Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae are among the most significant sources of non-thermal X-rays in the sky, and the closest laboratories where relativistic plasma dynamics and particle acceleration can be investigated. Being strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-26 N. Bucciantini

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the dominant Ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources in the LHAASO catalog suggesting that they are the dominant leptonic PeVatrons in our Galaxy. Despite this, still very little is known about their UHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Samy Kaci , Gwenael Giacinti , Dmitri Semikoz