Discovery of a bow-shock nebula around the pulsar B0740-28

Details Discovery of a bow-shock nebula around the pulsar B0740-28 Discovery of a bow-shock nebula around the pulsar B0740-28

Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001msngr.103...27j&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, No. 103, p. 27 (March 2001)

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Pulsars, Bow-Shock Nebulae

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Bow-shock nebulae around highvelocity pulsars provide our primary insight into the interaction between a pulsar and its surrounding environment. Specifically, optical observations of such nebulae allow us to derive full three-dimensional pulsar velocities which are extremely important for the birth rates and evolution of pulsars. They can also provide important information on the density, temperature and composition of the surrounding ambient medium. Unfortunately, only a few bow-shock nebulae have been discovered, despite there being nearly a thousand pulsars known from radio surveys. We have therefore commenced a search for pulsar bow-shocks, using the results to characterise the properties of the associated pulsars, pulsar winds and ambient environments.

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