X-ray Emission from the Guitar Nebula
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We have detected weak soft X-ray emission from the Pulsar Wind Nebula trailing the high velocity star PSR 2224+65 (the `Guitar Nebula'). This X-ray flux gives evidence of \gamma~10^7 eV particles in the pulsar wind and constrains the properties of the post-shock flow. The X-ray emission is most easily understood if the shocked pulsar wind is partly confined in the nebula and if magnetic fields in this zone can grow to near equipartition values.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706220,
title = {X-ray Emission from the Guitar Nebula},
author = {Roger W. Romani and James M. Cordes and I. -A. Yadigaroglu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706220},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. LaTeX w/ aas2pp4, aassize. To appear in ApJL, Aug 1997