Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-20
Astron.Astrophys. 415 (2004) 1073-1079
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20034631
A scenario for the origin of the system PSR B1757-24/supernova remnant (SNR) G5.4-1.2 is proposed. It is suggested that both objects are the remnants of a supernova (SN) that exploded within a pre-existing bubble blown-up by a runaway massive star (the SN progenitor) during the final (Wolf-Rayet) phase of its evolution. This suggestion implies that (a) the SN blast centre was significantly offset from the geometric centre of the wind-blown bubble (i.e. from the centre of the future SNR), (b) the bubble was surrounded by a massive wind-driven shell, and (c) the SN blast wave was drastically decelerated by the interaction with the shell. Therefore, one can understand how the relatively young and low-velocity pulsar PSR B1757-24 was able to escape from the associated SNR G5.4-1.2 and why the inferred vector of pulsar transverse velocity does not point away from the geometric centre of the SNR. A possible origin of the radio source G5.27-0.9 (located between PSR B1757-24 and the SNR G5.4-1.2) is proposed. It is suggested that G5.27-0.9 is a lobe of a low Mach number (\simeq 1.7) jet of gas outflowing from the interior of G5.4-1.2 through the hole bored in the SNR's shell by the escaping pulsar. It is also suggested that the non-thermal emission of the comet-shaped pulsar wind nebula originates in the vicinity of the termination shock and in the cylindric region of subsonically moving shocked pulsar wind. The role of magnetized wind-driven shells (swept-up during the Wolf-Rayet phase from the ambient interstellar medium with the regular magnetic field) in formation of elongated axisymmetric SNRs is discussed.
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