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Hans Publishers, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1(477), p. 249-253

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078432

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INTEGRAL detection of the pulsar wind nebula in PSR J1846-0258

Journal article published in 2007 by V. A. McBride, A. de Rosa, A. J. Dean, A. Bazzano, A. J. Bird, A. B. Hill ORCID, R. Landi, V. Sguera ORCID, A. Malizia
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We communicate the detection of soft (20--200 keV) gamma-rays from the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula of PSR J1846-0258 and aim to identify the component of the system which is responsible for the gamma-ray emission. To pinpoint the source of gamma-ray emission we combine spectral information from the INTEGRAL gamma-ray mission with archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Our analysis shows that the soft gamma-rays detected from PSR J1846-0258 include emission from both the pulsar and the pulsar wind nebula, but the measured spectral shape is dominated by the pulsar wind nebula. We further discuss PSR J1846-0258 in the context of rotation-powered pulsars with high magnetic field strengths and review the anomalously high fraction of spin-down luminosity converted into X- and gamma-ray emission in light of a possible overestimate of the distance to this pulsar. ; Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A