Imaging the Energetic Pulsar Wind Nebula around PSR J2229+6114

Details Imaging the Energetic Pulsar Wind Nebula around PSR J2229+6114 Imaging the Energetic Pulsar Wind Nebula around PSR J2229+6114

Sep 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001cxo..prop..849h&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #03500351

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #03500351

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We discovered a new supernova remnant with an energetic 51.6 ms pulsar in the error box of the EGRET source 3EG J2229+6122. With a spin-down power of 2.2x10**37 ergs/s, PSR J2229+6114 is the second most luminous gamma-ray pulsar after the Crab, and more energetic than the Vela pulsar. A brief image that we obtained with the Chandra ACIS-I in AO2 revealed a pulsar wind nebula with features possibly quite similar to those of the Vela nebula. We propose to obtain a long observation with ACIS-I in order to fully expose the variety of structures that Chandra can resolve in these nebulae, and to search for additional diffuse emission associated with the apparent bow-shock radio shell that surrounds the X-ray source.

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