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The X-ray synchrotron nebula around PSR 1509-58

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K.T.S. Brazier
K.T.S. Brazier*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE

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PSR 1509-58 is one of the youngest and most powerful pulsars known and is visible not only in soft X-rays, but in gamma-rays. Observations of its supernova remnant (MSH 15-52) offer a rare chance to study such a young pulsar and to explore its surroundings, which in X-rays include the pulsar’s 10×6 arcmin X-ray synchrotron nebula and the peculiar, filamentary optical nebula, RCW 89, that sits on the limb of MSH 15-52 (Seward & Harnden 1982, Seward et al. 1983). This paper will concentrate on the morphology of the synchrotron nebula.

Type
Part 5 High Energy Phenomena
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 351 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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