Discovery and characterization of superefficiency in pulsar wind nebulae [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10613


We numerically study the radiative properties of the reverberation phase of pulsar wind nebulae. Reverberation brings a significant evolution in a short period of time. We show that even the Crab nebula, associated to the more energetic pulsar of the sample we consider, has a period in its future time evolution where the X-ray luminosity will exceed the spin-down power at the time. In fact, all nebulae in our sample are expected to have a period of radio, X-ray, and GeV superefficiency, and most will also have a period of TeV superefficiency. We analyze and characterize these superefficient phases.

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D. Torres and T. Lin
Mon, 3 Sep 18
44/54

Comments: Accepted by the journal on July 30, 2018