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An X-Ray Investigation of Crab-Like Supernova Remnants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Z. R. Wang  and
F. D. Seward
Z. R. Wang
Affiliation:
Center of Astron. & Astrophys., CCAST(World Lab.), Nanjing Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, China
F. D. Seward
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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The Crab Nebula is the most noticeable object in our Galaxy, and the remnant of the famous Chinese guest star appeared in 1054AD, the best association between supernova remnants(SNR) and ancient guest stars. Before seventies, the Crab Nebula was considered as a special SNR with different morphology and physical features from that of most SNRs, Now more and more Crab-like SNRs have been detected(Weiler 1985). It is necessary to make a systematical investigation for the Crab-like SNRs, especially for those with central pulsars because they offer us more physical messages than others.

The two associations SNR and PSR, the Crab Nebula with PSR 0531+21 and the Vela SNR with PSR 0833-45, were confirmed at the end of sixties and still were the only two associations before eighties. Recent years, PSR 1509-58 in MSH 15-52 and PSR 0540-69 in a SNR of LMC(Seward & Harnden 1984, Seward etal. 1984) as well as PSR 1951+32 in CTB 80 (Clifton et al. 1987, Fruchter etal. 1987) were discovered. On the other hand, the X-ray emission of PSR 1055-52 and others were detected (Cheng & Helfand 1983, Helfand 1983). Recently, we searched for the X-ray emission of isolated pulsars over more than thirty fields in Einstein observation. By use of the same instrument calibrstions, the X-ray luminosities of ten isolated pulsars and their surrounding nebulae are obtained. Let Lx be the total X-ray luminosity of a pulsar and its nebula in the 0.2-4.0 kev band, and E be the rotating energy loss rate of the pulsar, the following statistical relation is obtained by linear regression and shown as the line in Fig. 1.

Type
Part III. Chemical and Dynamical Structures of Exploding Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 108: Atmospherics Diagnostics of Stellar Evolution: Chemical Peculiarity, Mass Loss, and Explosion , 1988 , pp. 452 - 453
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1988

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