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The Crab Nebula emits bright non-thermal radiation from radio to the most energetic photons. The underlying physical model of a relativistic wind from the pulsar terminating in a hydrodynamic standing shock remains unchanged since the early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Ludmilla Dirson , Dieter Horns

Additional high-frequency components of the pulsar radiation in Crab Nebula are considered as a result of the resonance with the surface electromagnetic wave at nonlinear reflection from of the neutron star surface.This stimulated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 V. M. Kontorovich , I. S. Spevak , V. K. Gavrikov

Having no any explanations the radiation of high-frequency components of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula can be a manifestation of instability in the nonlinear reflection from the neutron star surface. Reflected radiation it is the radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-07 Victor M. Kontorovich

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

It has been long debated whether the high-energy gamma-ray radiation from the Crab nebula stems from leptonic or hadronic processes. In this work, we investigate the multi-band non-thermal radiation from the Crab pulsar wind nebula with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-21 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang , Xiongfei Geng

Flaring episodes from Crab Nebula have been observed. A new mechanism of emission is explored. Particles in Crab pulsar are accelerated to multiple Tev energies, by some mechanisms, described in the paper and they are the reason of observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-10 Beka Tevdorashvili

The Crab nebula is a prominent pulsar wind nebula (PWN) detected in multiband observations ranging from radio to very high-energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays. Recently, $\gamma$-rays with energies above $1 \mathrm{PeV}$ had been detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Lu Wen , Ke-Yao Wu , Huan Yu , Jun Fang

The Crab Nebula is an astrophysical system that exhibits complex morphological patterns at different observing frequencies. We carry out a systematic investigation of the structural complexity of the nebula using publicly available imaging…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-02-20 Athokpam Langlen Chanu , Pravabati Chingangbam , Fazlu Rahman , R. K. Brojen Singh , Preeti Kharb

The Crab Nebula is a bright emitter of non-thermal radiation across the entire accessible range of wavelengths. The spatial and spectral structures of the synchrotron nebula are well-resolved from radio to hard X-ray emission. The un-pulsed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Paul K. H. Yeung , Dieter Horns

The formation of the toroidal and jet-like structures in the central part of the Crab Nebula is explained in the framework of Kennel & Coroniti theory. The only new element introduced by us in this theory is the initial anisotropy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. V. Bogovalov , D. V. Khangoulian

We construct a turbulent model of the Crab Nebula's non-thermal emission. The present model resolves a number of long-standing problems of the Kennel-Coroniti (1984) model: (i) the sigma problem; (ii) the hard spectrum of radio electrons;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Yonggang Luo , Maxim Lyutikov , Tea Temim , Luca Comisso

In recent years, it has become a well-established paradigm that many aspects of the physics of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) can be fully accounted for within a relativistic MHD description. Numerical simulations have proven extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Barbara Olmi , Luca Del Zanna , Elena Amato , Rino Bandiera , Niccolò Bucciantini

The accelerative expansion of the Crab nebula's outer envelope is a mystery in dynamics as a conventional expanding blast wave decelerates when bumping into the surrounding interstellar medium. Here we show that the strong relativistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yang Gao , Chung K. Law

Molecular clouds are expected to emit non-thermal radiation due to cosmic ray interactions in the dense magnetized gas. Such emission is amplified if a cloud is located close to an accelerator of cosmic rays and if cosmic rays can leave the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Gabici , Sabrina Casanova , Felix A. Aharonian

The nature of the supernova leading to the Crab Nebula has long been controversial because of the low energy that is present in the observed nebula. One possibility is that there is significant energy in extended fast material around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Haifeng Yang , Roger A. Chevalier

An axisymmetric model for the Crab Nebula is constructed to examine the flow dynamics in the nebula. The model is based on that of Kennel and Coroniti (1984), although we assume that the kinetic-energy-dominant wind is confined in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Shibata , H. Tomatsuri , M. Shimanuki , K. Ssito , K. Mori

We outline a model of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula with two different populations of synchrotron emitting particles, arising from two different acceleration mechanisms: (i) Component-I due to Fermi-I acceleration at the equatorial portion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Maxim Lyutikov , Tea Temim , Sergey Komissarov , Patrick Slane , Lorenzo Sironi , Luca Comisso

The Crab Nebula is well-described at optical wavelengths and above by a steady-state magnetohydrodynamic model due to Kennel and Coroniti (1984). Can this class of model describe other pulsar-wind nebulae? I exhibit simple generalizations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen P. Reynolds

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

The HI environment of the Crab Nebula is investigated using 2.75' and 9' resolution data from (respectively) the DRAO Synthesis, and Effelsberg 100 m, radio telescopes. No clear evidence for an interaction between the Crab and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. J. Wallace , T. L. Landecker , P. M. W. Kalberla , A. R. Taylor
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