AIN'T NO CRAB, PWN GOT A BRAND NEW BAG: CORRELATED RADIO AND X-RAY STRUCTURES IN PULSAR WIND NEBULAE
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The traditional view of radio pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), encouraged by the Crab nebula’s X-ray and radio morphologies, is that they are a result of the integrated history of their pulsars’ wind. The radio emission should therefore be largely unaffected by recent pulsar activity, and hence minimally correlated with structures in the X-ray nebulae. Observations of several PWN, both stationary and rapidly moving, now show clear morphological relationships between structures in the radio and X-ray with radio intensity variations on the order of unity. We present high-resolution X-ray and radio images of several PWN of both types and discuss the morphological relationships between the two wavebands.
Journal: arXiv: Astrophysics