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Relationship Between Pulsar and Nebula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

L. Woltjer
L. Woltjer*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The magnetic field and the relativistic electrons in the Crab Nebula cannot have originated at the time of the supernova explosion. The energy density in the magnetic field is so large that it must have been generated using the energy supply in the pulsar. The energies of the electrons are so high, and their lifetimes correspondingly are so short, that they must have been accelerated, again using the pulsar energy. The efficiency of these processes must be high, but there is an adequate energy supply.

Type
Session 7
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 46: The Crab Nebula , 1971 , pp. 389 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

References

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