Limits on radio emission from pulsar wind nebulae

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2000-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004273v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 318 (2000) 58

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 embedded EPS files. Accepted to MNRAS

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We report on a sensitive survey for radio pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) towards 27 energetic and/or high velocity pulsars. Observations were carried out at 1.4 GHz using the Very Large Array and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, and utilised pulsar-gating to search for off-pulse emission. These observing parameters resulted in a considerably more sensitive search than previous surveys, and could detect PWN over a much wider range of spatial scales (and hence ambient densities and pulsar velocities). However, no emission clearly corresponding to a PWN was discovered. Based on these non-detections we argue that the young and energetic pulsars in our sample have winds typical of young pulsars, but produce unobservable PWN because they reside in low density (n approx 0.003 cm^-3) regions of the ISM. However, non-detections of PWN around older and less energetic pulsars can only be explained if the radio luminosity of their winds is less than 1e-5 of their spin-down luminosity, implying an efficiency at least an order of magnitude smaller than that seen for young pulsars.

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