Bow Shock Nebulae from High Velocity Neutron Stars

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Sep 1999

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Chandra Proposal ID #01500793

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Chandra Proposal Id #01500793

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We propose ACIS exposures of high-velocity pulsars that produce cometary-shaped bowshock nebulae. Several targets are known bowshocks from previous Halpha or soft X-ray observations, while others are promising targets based on scaling laws for thermal and synchrotron emission from shocked interstellar gas and pulsar wind. The high-angular resolution and energy range of AXAF will allow us to (a) detect shocked gas and calculate, through morphology, constraints on the direction of motion and gas density; (b) place limits on the energy spectrum of pulsar-wind particles; (c) address the physics of electron heating, shock acceleration, and turbulence; and (d) evaluate the role of magnetic reconnection near the wind-shock interface.

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