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2012ApJ...754L...7K - Astrophys. J., 754, L7 (2012/July-3)

Discovery of a pulsar wind nebula candidate in the Cygnus Loop.

KATSUDA S., TSUNEMI H., MORI K., UCHIDA H., PETRE R., YAMADA S. and TAMAGAWA T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on a discovery of a diffuse nebula containing a pointlike source in the southern blowout region of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, based on Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations. The X-ray spectra from the nebula and the pointlike source are well represented by an absorbed power-law model with photon indices of 2.2±0.1 and 1.6±0.2, respectively. The photon indices as well as the flux ratio of Fnebula/Fpointlike∼ 4 lead us to propose that the system is a pulsar wind nebula, although pulsations have not yet been detected. If we attribute its origin to the Cygnus Loop supernova, then the 0.5-8 keV luminosity of the nebula is computed to be 2.1x1031 (d/540 pc)2 erg/s, where d is the distance to the Loop. This implies a spin-down loss-energy {dot}E ∼ 2.6x1035 (d/540 pc)2 erg/s. The location of the neutron star candidate, ∼2° away from the geometric center of the Loop, implies a high transverse velocity of ∼1850 (θ/2°) (d/540 pc) (t/10 kyr)–1 km/s, assuming the currently accepted age of the Cygnus Loop.

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Journal keyword(s): ISM: individual: Cygnus Loop - ISM: supernova remnants - pulsars: general - stars: neutron - stars: winds, outflows - X-rays: ISM

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