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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.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Slane

High-energy particle transport in pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) plays an essential role in explaining the characteristics revealed in multiwavelength observations. In this paper, the TeV-gamma-ray-emitting electrons in the Vela X PWN are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-04 Yiwei Bao , Siming Liu , Yang Chen

Current generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes observed dozens of sources of photons above 100 TeV. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, young stellar clusters and superbubbles are considered as possible sites of PeV-regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 A. M. Bykov , A. E. Petrov , G. A. Ponomaryov , K. P. Levenfish , M. Falanga

Non-thermal particles and high-energy radiation can play a role in the dynamical processes in star-forming regions and provide an important piece of the multiwavelength observational picture of their structure and components. Powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-05 A. M. Bykov , A. Marcowith , E. Amato , M. E. Kalyashova , J. M. D. Kruijssen , E. Waxman

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

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 resonant cyclotron absorption model is very successful in describing particle acceleration in plerions. A sensible prediction of this model is the presence of a substantial amount of relativistic protons in pulsar winds. Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 E. Amato , D. Guetta , P. Blasi

Multi-band emission from radio to ultra-high energy gamma-rays in the Crab Nebula has been detected. To explain the observed results, non-thermal photon production \textbf{in} the Crab Nebula is carefully studied in a spatially dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Qi-Yong Peng , Bi-Wen Bao , Fang-Wu Lu , Li Zhang

\textit{PeVatrons} are the extreme galactic accelerators capable of producing PeV particles. Recent observation of Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory have detected UHE photons ($\geq$ 100 TeV) from 43 galactic sources. Detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Gunindra Krishna Mahanta , Nilay Bhatt , Bitan Ghosal , Subir Bhattacharyya

G54.1+0.3 is a Crab-like pulsar wind nebula (PWN) with the highest $\gamma$-ray to X-ray luminosity ratio among all the nebulae driven by young rotation-powered pulsars. We model the spectral evolution of the PWN and find it difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Hui Li , Yang Chen , Li Zhang

Tenuous wind bubbles, which are formed by the spin-down activity of central compact remnants, are relevant in some models of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and super-luminous supernovae. We study their high-energy signatures, focusing on the role…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama , Peter Meszaros

Recent studies suggest that pulsars could be strong sources of TeV muon neutrinos provided positive ions are accelerated by pulsar polar caps to PeV energies. In such a situation muon neutrinos are produced through the delta resonance in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bhadra , R. K. Dey

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar, but it exceeds also the age of the electrons that emit via synchrotron radiation; i.e. while the PWN grows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 O. Tibolla , K. Mannheim , S. Kaufmann , D. Elsässer

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

In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton emitting electrons exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar, but it exceeds also the age of the electrons that emit via synchrotron radiation; i.e. during the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 O. Tibolla , K. Mannheim , D. Elsässer , S. Kaufmann

We have estimated fluxes of neutrinos and gamma-rays that are generated from decays of charged and neutral pions from a pulsar surrounded by supernova ejecta in our galaxy, including an effect that has not been taken into consideration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Nagataki

Pulsars with high spin-down power produce relativistic winds radiating a fraction of the power in the range from radio to gamma-rays in the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The rest of the power is dissipated in the interactions of the PWNe with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-30 A. M. Bykov , E. Amato , A. E. Petrov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

In the recent paper we calculated the $\gamma$-ray spectra from pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), assuming that a significant amount of the pulsar rotational energy is converted into relativistic nuclei. These nuclei accelerate leptons which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Bednarek

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are bubbles of relativistic particles, powered by the rotational energy loss of the central pulsars. The Crab Nebula, powered by the Milky Way's most energetic pulsar, was discovered by the Large High Altitude Air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 The LHAASO Collaboration

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