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Pulsar Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Shinpei Shibata
Affiliation:
Department of Physcis, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa, Yamagata 990, Japan
Nobuyuki Kawai
Affiliation:
The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-01, Japan
Keisuke Tamura
Affiliation:
Venture Business Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-01, Japan

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Recent observation with ASCA reveals that radio pulsars own X-ray diffuse nebulae around them. 11 such nebulae have been reported (Harrus, Hughes & Helfand 1996, Shibata et al. 1997, Kawai, Tamura & Shibata 1997). It is most likely that these nebulae are synchrotron nebuale powered by the pulsar wind, the outflow of relativistic particles. Kawai, Tamura and Shibata (1997) reduced an empirical law for the nebula luminosity Lx as a function of the rotation power Ėrot of the central pulsar: Lx/Ėrot = −12.3 + 0.27 log Ėrot.

Type
Session 1: Plasma and Fresh Nucleosynthesis Phenomena
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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