Chandra observations of the pulsar wind nebula in SNR G0.9+0.1

Details Chandra observations of the pulsar wind nebula in SNR G0.9+0.1 Chandra observations of the pulsar wind nebula in SNR G0.9+0.1

2001-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106486v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 embedded EPS figures, uses emulateapj.sty . Accepted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/322982

We present observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) within the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. At Chandra's high resolution, the PWN has a clear axial symmetry; a faint X-ray point source lying along the symmetry axis possibly corresponds to the pulsar itself. We argue that the nebular morphology can be explained in terms of a torus of emission in the pulsar's equatorial plane and a jet directed along the pulsar spin axis, as is seen in the X-ray nebulae powered by other young pulsars. A bright clump of emission within the PWN breaks the axisymmetry and may correspond to an intermediate-latitude feature in the pulsar wind.

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