TY - JOUR
T1 - Pulsar-Wind Nebulae and Magnetar Outflows
T2 - Observations at Radio, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Wavelengths
AU - Reynolds, Stephen P.
AU - Pavlov, George G.
AU - Kargaltsev, Oleg
AU - Klingler, Noel
AU - Renaud, Matthieu
AU - Mereghetti, Sandro
N1 - Funding Information:
SPR thanks the NuSTAR team for their outstanding work and permission to present their PWN results. GGP, OK, and NK are grateful to Andrei Bykov and Maxim Lyutikov for helpful discussions, and to Blagoy Rangelov and Bettina Posselt for their help in data analysis. Support for their work was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through Chandra Awards G03-14082 and G03-14057 issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for and on behalf of the National Aeronautics Space Administration under contract NAS8-03060. The work was also partly supported by NASA grant NNX08AD71G. MR is grateful to Jamie Cohen and Marco Ajello for providing the Fermi-LAT 2FHL image towards HESS J1356-645 and to Marie-Hélène Grondin for the Fermi-LAT images of Vela X.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - We review observations of several classes of neutron-star-powered outflows: pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe) inside shell supernova remnants (SNRs), PWNe interacting directly with interstellar medium (ISM), and magnetar-powered outflows. We describe radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of PWNe, focusing first on integrated spectral-energy distributions (SEDs) and global spectral properties. High-resolution X-ray imaging of PWNe shows a bewildering array of morphologies, with jets, trails, and other structures. Several of the 23 so far identified magnetars show evidence for continuous or sporadic emission of material, sometimes associated with giant flares, and a few “magnetar-wind nebula” have been recently identified.
AB - We review observations of several classes of neutron-star-powered outflows: pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe) inside shell supernova remnants (SNRs), PWNe interacting directly with interstellar medium (ISM), and magnetar-powered outflows. We describe radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of PWNe, focusing first on integrated spectral-energy distributions (SEDs) and global spectral properties. High-resolution X-ray imaging of PWNe shows a bewildering array of morphologies, with jets, trails, and other structures. Several of the 23 so far identified magnetars show evidence for continuous or sporadic emission of material, sometimes associated with giant flares, and a few “magnetar-wind nebula” have been recently identified.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11214-017-0356-6
DO - 10.1007/s11214-017-0356-6
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85016450427
VL - 207
SP - 175
EP - 234
JO - Space Science Reviews
JF - Space Science Reviews
SN - 0038-6308
IS - 1-4
ER -