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    Astrophysicists link Brightening of Pulsar Wind Nebula to Pulsar Spin-down Rate Transition

    August 27, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    An illustration of the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula (PWN) system (not to scale). The relativistic wind from the central pulsar is terminated by a shock at a radius of about one light-year and starts to radiate. The typical size of a PWN is a few light-years. The image of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy shown in the lower left was taken by YE Ziyi . Credit: Institute of High Energy Physics

    Astrophysicists have discovered that the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) surrounding the famous pulsar B0540-69 brightened gradually after the pulsar experienced a sudden spin-down rate transition (SRT)...

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