Pulsar-wind nebulae meeting the circumstellar media of their progenitors
D. M.-A. Meyer,
Z. Meliani,
D. F. Torres
Abstract:A significative fraction of high-mass stars sail away through the interstellar medium of the galaxies.
Once they evolved and died via a core-collapse supernova, a magnetised, rotating
neutron star (a pulsar) is usually left over.
The immediate surroundings of the pulsar is
the pulsar wind, which forms a nebula whose morphology is shaped by the supernova ejecta and channelled into the circumstellar medium of the progenitor star in the pre-supernova time. Irregular pulsar-wind nebulae display a large variety… Show more
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