The evolution and structure of pulsar wind nebulae

BM Gaensler, PO Slane - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006‏ - annualreviews.org
Pulsars steadily dissipate their rotational energy via relativistic winds. Confinement of these
outflows generates luminous pulsar wind nebulae, seen across the electromagnetic …

Neutron star cooling

DG Yakovlev, CJ Pethick - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Observation of cooling neutron stars can potentially provide information about the
states of matter at supernuclear densities. We review physical properties important for …

The surprising Crab pulsar and its nebula: a review

R Bühler, R Blandford - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The Crab nebula and its pulsar (referred to together as 'the Crab') have historically played a
central role in astrophysics. True to this legacy, several unique discoveries have been made …

Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula

AA Abdo, M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Allafort, L Baldini… - Science, 2011‏ - science.org
A young and energetic pulsar powers the well-known Crab Nebula. Here, we describe two
separate gamma-ray (photon energy greater than 100 mega–electron volts) flares from this …

The Crab Nebula: an astrophysical chimera

JJ Hester - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
The Crab Nebula, henceforth the Crab, the remnant of the historical supernova of 1054 AD,
has long been of intense interest. The pulsar at the center of the Crab has a spin-down …

Acceleration of particles at the termination shock of a relativistic striped wind

L Sironi, A Spitkovsky - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The relativistic wind of obliquely rotating pulsars consists of toroidal stripes of opposite
magnetic field polarity, separated by current sheets of hot plasma. By means of two-and …

Discovery of powerful gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula

M Tavani, A Bulgarelli, V Vittorini, A Pellizzoni, E Striani… - Science, 2011‏ - science.org
The well-known Crab Nebula is at the center of the SN1054 supernova remnant. It consists
of a rotationally powered pulsar interacting with a surrounding nebula through a relativistic …

The Crab nebula and pulsar between 500 GeV and 80 TeV: observations with the HEGRA stereoscopic air Cerenkov telescopes

F Aharonian, A Akhperjanian, M Beilicke… - The Astrophysical …, 2004‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The Crab supernova remnant has been observed regularly with the stereoscopic system of
five imaging air Cerenkov telescopes that was part of the High Energy Gamma Ray …

VHE γ-Ray Observation of the Crab Nebula and its Pulsar with the MAGIC Telescope

J Albert, E Aliu, H Anderhub, P Antoranz… - The Astrophysical …, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report about very high energy (VHE) γ-ray observations of the Crab Nebula with the
MAGIC telescope. The γ-ray flux from the nebula was measured between 60 GeV and 9 …

Pulsar wind nebulae in the Chandra era

O Kargaltsev, GG Pavlov - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008‏ - pubs.aip.org
Pulsar winds shocked in the ambient medium produce spectacular nebulae observable from
the radio through γ‐rays. The shape and the spectrum of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) …