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脉冲星风星云研究的新进展

Recent Progress in Studies of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Patrick Slane

摘要:

由年轻恒星的高能风形成的同步辐射星云提供了有助于其结构的广泛现象的信息。高分辨率X射线观测揭示了许多系统中的喷流和环形结构,以及被观测到发射随时间变化的结状结构。在光学和射电图像中看到的大尺度细丝标志着不稳定区域,在那里膨胀的星云与周围的喷出物相互作用,光谱研究揭示了这些喷出物以热X射线发射的形式存在。红外线研究探测了演化和磁场效应共同作用而显著改变宽带同步加速器光谱的频率区域,对星云最内部区域的研究提供了进入星云的粒子光谱的限制。在最高能量下,TeV伽马射线观测提供了一个光谱区域的探测器,对于低磁场,对应于能量略低于X射线发射区的粒子。在这里,我总结了脉冲星风星云的结构,并回顾了几个新的观察,这些观察有助于推动这些系统的理论建模最近的复苏。

英文摘要:

The synchrotron-emitting nebulae formed by energetic winds from young pulsars provide information on a wide range phenomena that contribute to their structure. High resolution X-ray observations reveal jets and toroidal structures in many systems, along with knot-like structures whose emission is observed to be time-variable. Large-scale filaments seen in optical and radio images mark instability regions where the expanding nebulae interact with the surrounding ejecta, and spectral studies reveal the presence of these ejecta in the form of thermal X-ray emission. Infrared studies probe the frequency region where evolutionary and magnetic field effects conspire to change the broadband synchrotron spectrum dramatically, and studies of the innermost regions of the nebulae provide constraints on the spectra of particles entering the nebula. At the highest energies, TeV gamma-ray observations provide a probe of the spectral region that, for low magnetic fields, corresponds to particles with energies just below the X-ray-emitting regime. Here I summarize the structure of pulsar wind nebulae and review several new observations that have helped drive a recent resurgence in theoretical modeling of these systems.

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