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The radio, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray nebulae that surround many pulsars are thought to arise from synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. The energy powering this emission, as well as the magnetic fields and relativistic particles, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 J. G. Kirk

An observational model is presented for the spectra of young rotation-powered pulsars and their nebulae based on a study of nine bright Crab-like pulsar systems observed with the Chandra X-ray observatory. A significant correlation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. V. Gotthelf

Microquasar binary stellar systems emit electromagnetic radiation and high-energy particles over a broad energy spectrum. However, they are so far away that it is hard to observe their details. A simulation offers the link between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Theodoros Smponias

The dynamics, energetics and evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs), are strongly affected by their magnetic field strength and distribution. They are usually strong, extended, sources of non-thermal X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , J. Vink , A. Bykov , R. Zanin , N. Bucciantini , E. Amato , R. Bandiera , B. Olmi , Yu. Uvarov

A plausible model for the Crab Nebula is one in which a particle dominated, highly relativistic wind from the pulsar passes through a shock front in which the particles attain a power law energy distribution. The electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger A. Chevalier

We present a new method to calculate the polarised synchrotron emission of radio AGN sources using magnetic field information from 3-dimensional relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (RMHD) simulations. Like its predecessor, which uses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Larissa Jerrim , Stas Shabala , Patrick Yates-Jones , Martin Krause , Ross Turner , Georgia Stewart , Chris Power

Recent observations by the PAMELA and AMS-02 telescopes have uncovered an anomalous rise in the positron fraction at energies above 10~GeV. One possible explanation for this excess is the production of primary electron/positron pairs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Tim Linden

Pulsar winds shocked in the ambient medium produce spectacular nebulae observable from the radio through gamma-rays. The shape and the spectrum of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) depend on the angular distribution, magnetization and energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov

The recent development of numerical schemes for Relativistic MHD (RMHD) allows us to model the acceleration and outflow properties of winds from compact sources. Theoretical models suggest that acceleration and collimation of the flow are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Bucciantini

We present a study of the X-ray emission from numerical simulations of hot bubbles in planetary nebulae (PNe). High-resolution, two-dimensional, radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of hot bubbles in PNe, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 J. A. Toalá , S. J. Arthur

We present theoretical results of a piecewise isothermal shock wind model devised for predicting the luminosity and surface brightness profile of diffuse X-ray emissions primarily from the inner shocked downstream wind zone of a planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yu-Qing Lou , Xiang Zhai

For pulsars similar to the one in the Crab Nebula, most of the energy input to the surrounding wind nebula occurs on a timescale of less than 1000 years; during this time, the nebula expands into freely expanding supernova ejecta. On a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John M. Blondin , Roger A. Chevalier , Dargan M. Frierson

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov

The recently detected gamma-ray emission from Starburst galaxies is most commonly considered to be diffuse emission arising from strong interactions of accelerated cosmic rays. Mannheim et al. (2012), however, have argued that a population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefan Ohm , Jim Hinton

We present an X-ray analysis and a model of the nonthermal emission of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) MSH15-52. We analyzed XMM-Newton data to obtain the spatially resolved spectral parameters around the pulsar PSRB1509-58. A steepening of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 F. M. Schöck , I. Büsching , O. C. de Jager , P. Eger , M. J. Vorster

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

In this review we describe recent observational and theoretical developments in our understanding of pulsar winds and pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe). We put special emphasis on the results from observations of well-characterized PWNe of various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-03 Oleg Kargaltsev , Benoit Cerutti , Yuri Lyubarsky , Edoardo Striani

We investigate the radiation processes inside supernova remnants which are powered by young pulsars. Using recent model for particle acceleration by the pulsar wind nebulae, we obtain the equilibrium spectra of leptons and nuclei inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bednarek , M. Bartosik

PSR J1833-1034 and its associated Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) has been investigated in depth through X-ray observations ranging from 0.1 to 200 keV. The low energy X-ray data from Chandra reveal a complex morphology that is characterised by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. De Rosa , P. Ubertini , R. Campana , A. Bazzano , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani

We discuss non-thermal emission mechanism of the Crab-like pulsars with both a two-dimensional electrodynamical study and a three-dimensional model. We investigate the emission process in the outer gap accelerator. In the two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang