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蟹状脉冲星风星云G54 .1+0.3的深Chandra观测及其红外壳层的Spitzer光谱

Deep Chandra Observations of the Crab-like Pulsar Wind Nebula G54.1+0.3 and Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Associated Infrared Shell

Tea Temim, Patrick Slane, Stephen P. Reynolds, John C. Raymond, Kazimierz J. Borkowski

摘要:

G54.1+0.3是一个年轻的脉冲星风星云(PWN),与蟹状星云非常相似,在X射线中没有发现热壳层辐射。最近的斯皮策观测揭示了一个红外(IR)壳层,其中包含十几个以环状结构排列的点源,以前被认为是年轻的恒星物体。位于壳层西北部的一个扩展的发射结似乎与脉冲星的X射线喷流对齐,这表明可能与壳层材料相互作用。令人惊讶的是,结的IRS光谱类似于Cas A中新形成的尘埃的光谱,并且由21微米的未识别尘埃发射特征主导。壳层的光谱还包含各种发射线,并显示一些显着增宽,表明它们起源于快速膨胀的超新星(SN)喷出物。我们提出的第一个证据表明,PWN驱动冲击扩大SN喷出物,我们提出了一种替代解释的红外发射的起源,其中壳完全由SN喷出物。在这种情况下,新形成的SN尘埃正在被属于SN爆炸的星团的早期类型恒星加热。简单的尘埃模型表明,这种解释可以引起所观察到的壳发射和红外点源。

英文摘要:

G54.1+0.3 is a young pulsar wind nebula (PWN), closely resembling the Crab, for which no thermal shell emission has been detected in X-rays. Recent Spitzer observations revealed an infrared (IR) shell containing a dozen point sources arranged in a ring-like structure, previously proposed to be young stellar objects. An extended knot of emission located in the NW part of the shell appears to be aligned with the pulsar's X-ray jet, suggesting a possible interaction with the shell material. Surprisingly, the IRS spectrum of the knot resembles the spectrum of freshly formed dust in Cas A, and is dominated by an unidentified dust emission feature at 21 microns. The spectra of the shell also contain various emission lines and show that some are significantly broadened, suggesting that they originate in rapidly expanding supernova (SN) ejecta. We present the first evidence that the PWN is driving shocks into expanding SN ejecta and we propose an alternative explanation for the origin of the IR emission in which the shell is composed entirely of SN ejecta. In this scenario, the freshly formed SN dust is being heated by early-type stars belonging to a cluster in which the SN exploded. Simple dust models show that this interpretation can give rise to the observed shell emission and the IR point sources.

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