Exploring the Effects of Magnetar Bursts in Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2020

Publication Title

Journal of High Energy Astrophysics

Volume

28

First page number:

10

Last page number:

18

Abstract

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. We explore possible effects of a magnetar burst on the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray flux of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). We assume that the burst injects electron-positron pairs or powers the magnetic field and explore the total energy at injection and the spectral index needed in order to increase the X-ray flux by about one order of magnitude, as well as its decay time until reaching quiescence. We also explore magnetically powered phenomenology that could explain a temporary increase of the PWN synchrotron emitted flux and perhaps the relatively common lack of PWNe surrounding magnetars. This phenomenological study is of interest for fast radio bursts (FRBs) as well, given that the connection between magnetars and this kind of systems have been recently established observationally.

Keywords

Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; Stars: neutron

Disciplines

Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy

Language

English

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