Speaker
Seth Gagnon
(The George Washington University)
Description
The spectacular Lighthouse nebula offers a rare opportunity to study how the most energetic pulsar wind particles escape into the ambient ISM near the apex of the bowshock of the highly supersonic pulsar. The >7-arcmin-long pulsar filament is by far the brightest among its peers and the only one allowing for informative spatially-resolved spectroscopy constraining the SED of the injected particles, the physics of the particle beam/magnetic field interaction, and leptonic cosmic ray propagation in ISM. We use deep CXO observations to demonstrate how NewAthena will be able to constrain spectral evolution of particle SED along the pulsar filament.
Primary author
Seth Gagnon
(The George Washington University)
Co-author
Dr
Oleg Kargaltsev
(The George Washington University)
