Non-thermal emission from relativistic MHD simulations of pulsar wind nebulae: From synchrotron to inverse Compton

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-349

  Volpi, D ^a   Del Zanna, L ^a   Amato, E ^b   Bucciantini, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ISM: individual objects: Crab Nebula; ISM: supernova remnants; Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Radiation mechanisms: non thermal; Relativity; Stars: pulsars: general

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; HEALTH; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MAGNETIC BUBBLES; MAGNETISM; MAPS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; POWER SPECTRUM; RADIATION; RELATIVITY; STARS; SYNCHROTRONS; WIND POWER;

APPLIED (CO); AXISYMMETRIC JETS; COMPTON RADIATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND (CMG); CRAB NEBULA; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTION (FDCS); EMITTING SOURCES; FAR INFRA RED (FIR); GAMMA RAY EMISSIONS; GAMMA-RAYS; GENERAL (CO); HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INVERSE COMPTON; MAGN ETIC FIELD; MAGNETO HYDRODYNAMICS (MHD) SIMULATIONS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD) EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM ENERGY; NON THERMAL (NT) EMISSION; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PARTICLE ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAWS; PULSAR WIND NEBULAE (PWNE); RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES; SUPERNOVA (SN); SYNCHROTRON EMISSIONS; TERMINATION SHOCKS; TIME VARIABILITY; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; X-RAY MORPHOLOGY;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

EID: 46649102074     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809424     Document Type: Article

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