A Zoo of Pulsar Wind Nebulae: Clues from High-Resolution X-ray Observations

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Aug 2005

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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 99, No. 4, p.132

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Plerions (or Pulsar Wind Nebulae, PWNe) are an ideal laboratory to study the physics of neutron stars, relativistic shocks, particle acceleration, and the interaction between pulsar winds and their surroundings. The Crab Nebula has been recognized for decades as the prototype for plerions, a class that includes about a dozen objects in our Galaxy. Some of these objects however have (peculiar) properties that differentiate them from the Crab Nebula, including a low-frequency spectral break and weak (or absence of) X-ray pulsations, suggesting that these are plerions of a "second kind." I will briefly overview the properties of these objects and the theory advanced to explain them. I will then highlight the X-ray studies of a few objects, and describe how future Chandra and XMM studies will shed light on the intrinsic properties of their powering engines and their environment.

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