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Pulsar wind nebulae of runaway massive stars [PDF]
, 2022 A significant fraction of massive stars move at speed through the interstellar medium of galaxies. After their death as core collapse supernovae, a possible final evolutionary state is that of a fast rotating magnetised neutron star, shaping its circumstellar medium into a pulsar wind nebula. Understanding the properties of pulsar wind nebulae requires
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Diverse Features of the Multiwavelength Afterglows of Gamma‐Ray Bursts: Natural or Special?
Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 The detection of optical rebrightenings and X‐ray plateaus in the afterglows of gamma‐ray bursts (GRBs) challenges the generic external shock model. Recently, we have developed a numerical method to calculate the dynamics of the system consisting of a forward shock and a reverse shock.
J. J. Geng, Y. F. Huang, WeiKang Zheng
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Do we really observe a bow shock in N157B...? [PDF]
, 2003 I present a model of a pulsar wind interacting with its associated supernova remnant. I will use the model to argue that one can explain the morphology of the pulsar wind nebula inside N157B, a supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, without the need for a bow shock interpretation.
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X‐Ray Pulsar Profile Recovery Based on Tracking‐Differentiator
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 The profile recovery is an important work in X‐ray pulsar‐based navigation. It is a key step for the analysis on the pulsar signal’s characteristic and the computing of time of arrival (TOA). This paper makes an argument for an algorithm based on the tracking‐differentiator (TD) to recover the profile from the low Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio (SNR) signals ...
Dapeng Zhang +4 more
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Astronomical Signatures of Dark Matter
Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 Several independent astronomical observations in different wavelength bands reveal the existence of much larger quantities of matter than what we would deduce from assuming a solar mass to light ratio. They are very high velocities of individual galaxies within clusters of galaxies, higher than expected rotation rates of stars in the outer regions of ...
Paul Gorenstein +2 more
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Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Core‐collapse supernovae are dramatic explosions marking the catastrophic end of massive stars. The only means to get direct information about the supernova engine is from observations of neutrinos emitted by the forming neutron star, and through gravitational waves which are produced when the hydrodynamic flow or the neutrino flux is not perfectly ...
Kei Kotake +7 more
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Pulsar‐Driven Jets in Supernovae, Gamma‐Ray Bursts, and the Universe
Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 The bipolarity of Supernova 1987A can be understood through its very early light curve from the CTIO 0.4 m telescope and IUE FES and following speckle observations of the “Mystery Spot”. These indicate a beam/jet of light/particles, with initial collimation factors >104 and velocities >0.95 c, involving up to 10−5 M⊙ interacting with circumstellar ...
John Middleditch +1 more
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Bow-shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae Passing Through Density Discontinuities [PDF]
, 2016 Bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae are a subset of pulsar wind nebulae that form when the pulsar has high velocity due to the natal kick during the supernova explosion. The interaction between the relativistic wind from the fast-moving pulsar and the interstellar medium produces a bow-shock and a trail, which are detectable in H$_{\alpha}$ emission.
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 17, September 2011., 2011 We report in‐situ measurements by three THEMIS spacecraft showing the evolution of reconnection in a solar wind current sheet as the current sheet transited from the solar wind across the bow shock and close to the magnetopause on July 11, 2008. The observations suggest that the solar wind reconnection exhaust within the current sheet was disrupted by ...
T. D. Phan +9 more
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Heavy Elements and Electromagnetic Transients from Neutron Star Mergers
Annalen der Physik, Volume 536, Issue 2, February 2024.Astro‐(physics) has made major leaps forward through the combined information provided by both gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission from the first detected neutron star merger event. This review provides an up‐to‐date overview of today's understanding of neutron star mergers and their electromagnetic emission and it discusses possible ...
Stephan Rosswog, Oleg Korobkin
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