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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2013

Signatures of pulsars in the light curves of newly formed supernova remnants

E. S. Phinney
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A. V. Olinto
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We explore the effect of pulsars, in particular those born with millisecond periods, on their surrounding supernova ejectas. While they spin down, fast-spinning pulsars release their tremendous rotational energy in the form of a relativistic magnetized wind that can affect the dynamics and luminosity of the supernova. We estimate the thermal and non-thermal radiations expected from these specific objects, concentrating at times a few years after the onset of the explosion. We find that the bolometric light curves present a high luminosity plateau (that can reach 1043-1044 erg s-1) over a few years. An equally bright TeV gamma-ray emission, and a milder X-ray peak (of the order of 1040-1042 erg s-1) could also appear a few months to a few years after the explosion, as the pulsar wind nebula emerges, depending on the injection parameters. The observations of these signatures by following the emission of a large number of supernovae could have important implications for the understanding of core-collapse supernovae and reveal the nature of the remnant compact object.
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K. Kotera, E. S. Phinney, A. V. Olinto. Signatures of pulsars in the light curves of newly formed supernova remnants. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013, 432, pp.3228-3236. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stt680⟩. ⟨hal-03645515⟩
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