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The unusually short durations, high luminosities, and high photon energies of the Crab Nebula gamma-ray flares require relativistic bulk motion of the emitting plasma. We explain the Crab flares as the result of randomly oriented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Eric Clausen-Brown , Maxim Lyutikov

We interpret $\gamma$-ray flares from the Crab Nebula as the signature of turbulence in the pulsar's electromagnetic outflow. Turbulence is triggered upstream by dynamical instability of the wind's oscillating magnetic field, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Jonathan Zrake

Pulsars possess strong dipole magnetic fields that can source axion fields through the axion-photon interaction. Pulsars may therefore be surrounded by axion field configurations oscillating with the pulsar's rotational period. These axions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Francesca Chadha-Day , Tanmay Kumar Poddar

We present the results of a new, comprehensive investigation of the radio spectral index of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant. New data at 74 MHz are combined with data at 327 MHz, 1.5 GHz and 5 GHz. In contrast to previous claims, little…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. F. Bietenholz , N. Kassim , D. A. Frail , R. A. Perley , W. C. Erickson , A. R. Hajian

We have carried out new, high-frequency, high-time-resolution observations of the Crab pulsar. Combining these with our previous data, we characterize bright single pulses associated with the Main Pulse, both the Low-Frequency and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 T. H. Hankins , J. A. Eilek , G. Jones

We present the results of a search for pulsed TeV emission from the Crab pulsar using the Whipple Observatory's 10 m gamma-ray telescope. The direction of the Crab pulsar was observed for a total of 73.4 hours between 1994 November and 1997…

Our knowledge of the dynamics and masses of galaxies in the Local Group has long been limited by the fact that only line-of-sight velocities were observationally accessible. This introduces significant degeneracies in dynamical models,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Roeland P. van der Marel

The Weak Equivalence Principle states that the geodesics of a test particle in a gravitational field are independent of the particle's constitution. To constrain violations of the Weak Equivalence Principle, we use the one-meter telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Calvin Leung , Beili Hu , Sophia Harris , Amy Brown , Hien Nguyen , Jason Gallicchio

We present a deep [O III] 4959,5007 image of the northern filamentary jet in the Crab Nebula taken with the 8.2m Subaru telescope. Using this image and an image taken with the KPNO 4m in 1988 (Fesen & Staker 1993), we have computed proper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. C. Rudie , R. A. Fesen , T. Yamada

The recent availability of accurate proper motion catalogs for millions of stars on the sky (e.g. Tycho-2, UCAC) can benefit projects for which age estimates are needed for stars that are plausibly young (<100 Myr-old) and within a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric E. Mamajek

We present here the updated calibration of The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray NuSTAR, which was performed using data on the Crab accumulated over the last 9 years in orbit. The basis for this new calibration contains over 250ks of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Kristin K. Madsen , Karl Forster , Brian W. Grefenstette , Fiona A. Harrison , Hiromasa Miyasaka

Observations of the Crab Nebula at 850 micron made with the "Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array" (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope are presented. A variety of chop-throws and scanning directions was used in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Green

We describe results derived from thirty years of observations of PSR B1913+16. Together with the Keplerian orbital parameters, measurements of the relativistic periastron advance and a combination of gravitational redshift and time dilation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Weisberg , J. H. Taylor

Recent observations of the Crab pulsar by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory show that the high-energy gamma-ray light curve has changed little over the lifetime of the instrument.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. F. Tompkins , B. B. Jones , P. L. Nolan , G. Kanbach , P. V. Ramanamurthy , D. J. Thompson

Recent X-ray observations of young rotation-powered pulsars are providing an unprecedented detailed view of pulsar wind nebulae. For the first time, coherent emission features involving wisps, co-aligned toroidal structures, and axial jets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. V. Gotthelf

We report on observations of the Crab pulsar with the MAGIC telescopes. Our data were taken in both monoscopic (> 25GeV) and stereoscopic (> 50GeV) observation modes. Two peaks were detected with both modes and phase-resolved energy spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Klepser , G. Giavitto , M. López , T. Y. Saito , T. Schweizer , I. Snidaric , R. Zanin

The pulsed radiation from the Crab pulsar consists of the main pulse (MP) and inter pulse (IP), as well as of the extra pulse components appearing at certain frequencies. It has been studied at many frequencies and contains unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-24 Victor M. Kontorovich , Sergii V. Trofymenko

Using all the HST WFC/WFPC2 images of the field collected so far, we have performed an accurate relative astrometry analysis to re-assess the value of the Vela pulsar proper motion. Although covering a much shorter time span, our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Luca , R. P. Mignani , P. A. Caraveo

The Crab supernova is interesting because we know that it was not a binary at death, the outcome was a neutron star, and because of the supernova remnant's apparently low energy and mass. Using Gaia EDR3 parallaxes and photometry, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Elvira Cruz-Cruz , Christopher S. Kochanek

We interpret the observed X-ray morphology of the central part of the Crab Nebula (torus + jets) in terms of the standard theory by Kennel and Coroniti (1984). The only new element is the inclusion of anisotropy in the energy flux from the…

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