X-ray Emission from the Guitar Nebula

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1997-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706220v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures. LaTeX w/ aas2pp4, aassize. To appear in ApJL, Aug 1997

Scientific paper

10.1086/310796

We have detected weak soft X-ray emission from the Pulsar Wind Nebula trailing the high velocity star PSR 2224+65 (the `Guitar Nebula'). This X-ray flux gives evidence of \gamma~10^7 eV particles in the pulsar wind and constrains the properties of the post-shock flow. The X-ray emission is most easily understood if the shocked pulsar wind is partly confined in the nebula and if magnetic fields in this zone can grow to near equipartition values.

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