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The hypothesis that pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) can significantly contribute to the excess of the positron ($e^+$) cosmic-ray flux has been consolidated after the observation of a $\gamma$-ray emission at TeV energies of a few degree size…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Silvia Manconi , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

The polarization of X-ray synchrotron emission in blazars directly probes the magnetic field geometry and particle acceleration processes in relativistic jets. We use particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection and magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-25 Benjamin de Jonge , Haocheng Zhang , Manel Errando , Andrea Gokus , Pazit Rabinowitz

Based on time-dependent radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the evolution of Planetary Nebulae (PNe), we have carried out a systematic parameter study to address the non-trivial question of how the diffuse X-ray emission of PNe with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Steffen , C. Sandin , R. Jacob , D. Schoenberner

We detected X-ray emission from PSR B1800-21 and its synchrotron nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The pulsar's observed flux is (1.4+/-0.2) 10^{-14} ergs cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the 1-6 keV band. The spectrum can be described by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , G. P. Garmire

We report on our finding of an excess of $54^{+16}_{-15}$ neutrinos at the location of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G63.7+1.1. By analyzing the IceCube track-like neutrino data for a group of 14 PWNe, which are selected as the targets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-29 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Dong Zheng , Jintao Zheng

We present results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy distribution of a pulsar wind nebula by solving a Fokker-Planck-type transport equation and calculating inverse Compton and synchrotron emissivities. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Carlo van Rensburg , Paulus Kruger , Christo Venter

Since the day of its explosion, SN 1987A (SN87A) was closely monitored with the aim to study its evolution and to detect its central compact relic. The detection of neutrinos from the supernova strongly supports the formation of a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Emanuele Greco , Marco Miceli , Salvatore Orlando , Barbara Olmi , Fabrizio Bocchino , Shigehiro Nagataki , Masaomi Ono , Akira Dohi , Giovanni Peres

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

A pulsar wind nebula inside a supernova remnant provides a unique insight into the properties of the central neutron star, the relativistic wind powered by its loss of rotational energy, its progenitor supernova, and the surrounding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-24 Joseph D. Gelfand , Patrick O. Slane , Weiqun Zhang

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

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

Due to the computational cost of calculating a great number of variations of the parameters, detailed radiative models of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) do not usually contain fitting algorithms. As a consequence, most of the models in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-27 J. Martin , D. F. Torres

In this paper we discuss the development of Rayleigh-Taylor filaments in axisymmetric simulations of Pulsar wind nebulae (PWN). High-resolution adaptive mesh refinement magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to resolve the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Oliver Porth , Serguei Komissarov , Rony Keppens

A large part of the Galactic sources emitting very high energy (VHE; > 10^{11} eV) gamma-rays are currently still unidentified. The evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) plays a crucial role in interpreting these sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-30 S. Kaufmann , O. Tibolla

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

The radiation of a pulsar wind is computed assuming that at roughly 10 to 100 light cylinder radii from the star, magnetic energy is dissipated into particle energy. The synchrotron emission of heated particles appears periodic, with, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. G. Kirk , O. Skjaeraasen , Y. A. Gallant

Very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission provides constraints on the morphology and the physics mechanisms involved in the evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In the Galactic plane, around $312 ^{\circ}$ of Galactic longitude, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-06 P. Chambéry , Y. Gallant , A. Jardin-Blicq , M. Lemoine-Goumard , V. Marandon , A. Sinha , M. Tsirou , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The most numerous source class that emerged from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). The 2013 reanalysis of this survey, undertaken after almost 10 years of observations, provides us with the most sensitive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Klepser , S. Carrigan , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , C. Deil , A. Förster , V. Marandon , M. Mayer , K. Stycz , K. Valerius

It has been suggested that some classes of luminous supernovae (SNe) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are driven by newborn magnetars. Fast-rotating proto-neutron stars have also been of interest as potential sources of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama , Kenta Kiuchi , Imre Bartos

The extended nebulae formed as pulsar winds expand into their surroundings provide information about the composition of the winds, the injection history from the host pulsar, and the material into which the nebulae are expanding.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Patrick Slane