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Pulsar Wind Nebulae: On their growing diversity and association with highly magnetized neutron stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

Samar Safi-Harb
Samar Safi-Harb*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada email: samar@physics.umanitoba.ca
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The 1968 discovery of the Crab and Vela pulsars in their respective supernova remnants (SNRs) confirmed Baade and Zwicky's 1934 prediction that supernovae form neutron stars. Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe), particularly with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have in the past decade opened a new window to focus on the neutron stars' relativistic winds, study their interaction with their hosting SNRs, and find previously missed pulsars. While the Crab has been thought for decades to represent the prototype of PWNe, we now know of different classes of neutron stars and PWNe whose properties differ from the Crab. In this talk, I review the current status of neutron stars/PWNe-SNRs associations, and highlight the growing diversity of PWNe with an X-ray eye on their association with highly magnetized neutron stars. I conclude with an outlook to future high-energy studies.

Keywords

stars: neutron(stars:) pulsars: general(ISM:) supernova remnantsX-rays: ISM
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years , August 2012 , pp. 251 - 256
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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