TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward understanding the physical underpinnings of spatial and spectral morphologies of pulsar wind nebulae
AU - Kargaltsev, O.
AU - Klingler, N.
AU - Chastain, S.
AU - Pavlov, G. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements: We thank Andery Bykov and Demos Kazanas for stimulating discussions. We acknowledge partial support from CXO awards GO3-14082, GO3-14084, GO3-14057 and AR5-6006.
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PY - 2017/12/12
Y1 - 2017/12/12
N2 - We discuss the observational properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) linking them to the injected (at the termination shock) electron spectral energy distribution and parameters of pulsar magnetospheres. In particular, we (1) present spatially-resolved Chandra ACIS spectral maps of twelve PWNe and measure the slopes of the uncooled PWN spectra just downstream of the termination shock obtained from these maps, (2) consider the connections between PWN morphologies and predictions of the magnetospheric emission models and (3) discuss the limits on the maximum energies of particles in PWNe from X-ray and γ-ray observations.
AB - We discuss the observational properties of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) linking them to the injected (at the termination shock) electron spectral energy distribution and parameters of pulsar magnetospheres. In particular, we (1) present spatially-resolved Chandra ACIS spectral maps of twelve PWNe and measure the slopes of the uncooled PWN spectra just downstream of the termination shock obtained from these maps, (2) consider the connections between PWN morphologies and predictions of the magnetospheric emission models and (3) discuss the limits on the maximum energies of particles in PWNe from X-ray and γ-ray observations.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/932/1/012050
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/932/1/012050
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85039443250
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 932
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012050
T2 - 11th International Conference Physics of Neutron Stars 2017
Y2 - 10 July 2017 through 14 July 2017
ER -