Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.1702k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #17.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1335
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We report the first X-ray detection of the radio pulsar PSR B1757-24 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We detect point-source emission at the pulsar position plus a faint tail extending nearly 20'' east of the pulsar, in the same direction and with comparable morphology to the radio tail. Assuming the point-source X-ray emission is magnetospheric, the observed X-ray tail represents only ~0.01% of the pulsar's spin-down luminosity. This is significantly lower than the analogous efficiencies of most known X-ray nebulae surrounding rotation-powered pulsars. Assuming a non-thermal spectrum for the tail photons, we show that the tail is unlikely to be emission left behind following the passage of the pulsar, but rather is probably from synchrotron-emitting pulsar wind particles having flow velocity ~4000 km s-1. We also show that there must be a significant break in the tail synchrotron spectrum between the radio and X-ray bands that is intrinsic to the particle spectrum. No emission is detected from the shell supernova remnant G5.4-1.2. The upper limits on remnant emission are unconstraining.
Gaensler Bryan M.
Gotthelf Eric Van
Kaspi Victoria M.
Lyutikov Maxim
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