X-Ray Imaging of Pulsar Bow Shocks

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Sep 2004

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Chandra Proposal ID #06500291

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Chandra Proposal Id #06500291

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Pulsar bow shocks provide a laboratory for studying non-thermal particle populations and shocks under a particularly well-defined geometry. Using Chandra data on "the Mouse", we have recently carried out the first detailed X-ray study of a pulsar bow shock, and have directly identified both the termination shock plus structures in the downstream flow. We now need to compare these results to other sources, and thus propose Chandra observations of two more pulsar bow shocks which possibly contain complicated nebular structure. These data can test our model for the Mouse, allowing us to establish which theories developed for "Crab-like" nebulae are equally valid for bow shocks, and to correspondingly focus new theoretical efforts on ways in which these systems may differ from the Crab.

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