Pulsar wind nebulae around the southern pulsars PSR B1643-43 and PSR B1706-44

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2001-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103089v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1086/321082

We present high resolution VLA images taken at the wavelengths of lambda 20 cm, lambda 6 cm, and lambda 3.6 cm in the vicinity of the pulsars PSR B1706-44 (PSR J1709-4428) and PSR B1643-43 (PSR J1646-4346). Both of these pulsars are young (<30,000 yrs) and have large spin-down luminosities (e+35 erg/sec) and hence are good candidates to search for extended synchrotron nebula excited by the relativistic pulsar wind. For PSR B1643-43 we found evidences of a 4'comet-shaped nebula, suggestive of a synchrotron ``wake'' left by a fast moving pulsar. PSR B1706-44 appears surrounded by a spherical nebula approximately 3 ' in diameter. Based on their morphology, the detection of significant linear polarization (>20%), and their flat radio spectra (alpha=0.25-0.3, where S_nu aprox nu^-alpha) we argue that these are wind nebulae powered by the rotational energy loss of the respective pulsars.

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