New Studies of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in the Supernova Remnant CTB 80

Details New Studies of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in the Supernova Remnant CTB 80 New Studies of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in the Supernova Remnant CTB 80

2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503526v1

Astron.Lett. 31 (2005) 243-255; Pisma Astron.Zh. 31 (2005) 269-283

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to appear in Astronomy Letters, 12 pages, 6 postscript figures, two in colour; for a version with high resolution figures see

Scientific paper

10.1134/1.1896068

We investigated the kinematics of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with PSR B1951+32 in the old supernova remnant CTB 80 using the Fabry-Perot interferometer of the 6m Special Astrophysical Observatory telescope. In addition to the previously known expansion of the system of bright filaments with a velocity of 100-200km/s, we detected weak high-velocity features in the H-alpha line at least up to velocities of 400-450km/s. We analyzed the morphology of the PWN in the H-alpha, [SII], and [OIII] lines using HST data and discuss its nature. The shape of the central filamentary shell, which is determined by the emission in the [OIII] line and in the radio continuum, is shown to be consistent with the bow-shock model for a significant (about 60 degrees) inclination of the pulsar's velocity vector to the plane of the sky. In this case, the space velocity of the pulsar is twice higher than its tangential velocity, i.e., it reaches ~500 km/s, and PSR B1951+32 is the first pulsar whose line-of-sight velocity (of about 400 km/s) has been estimated from the PWN observations. The shell-like H-alpha-structures outside the bow shock front in the east and the west may be associated with both the pulsar's jets and the pulsar-wind breakthrough due to the layered structure of the extended CTB 80 shell.

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