Discovery of the Inner Ring around PSR B1509-58.pdf

a r X i v : 0 8 0 8 .0 5 8 1 v 1 [ a s t r o - p h ] 5 A u g 2 0 0 8 PASJ: Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan , 1–??, c? 2008. Astronomical Society of Japan. Discovery of the Inner Ring around PSR B1509?58 Yoichi Yatsu, Nobuyuki Kawai Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama Meguro Tokyo 152-8551 yatsu@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp, nkawai@phys.titech.ac.jp Shinpei Shibata Department of Physics, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560 and Wolfgang Brinkmann Max-Planck-Institut fu?r Extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany (Received ; accepted ) Abstract A Chandra study of pulsar wind nebula around the young energetic pulsar PSR B1509?58 is presented. The high resolution X-ray image with total exposure time of 190 ks reveals a ring like feature 10” apart from the pulsar. This feature is analogous to the inner ring seen in the Crab nebula and thus may correspond to a wind termination shock. The shock radius enables us to constrain the wind magnetization, σ ≥ 0.01. The obtained σ is one order of magnitude larger than that of the Crab nebula. In the pulsar vicinity, the southern jet appears to extend beyond the wind termination shock, in contrast to the narrow jet of the Crab. The revealed morphology of the broad jet is coincident with the recently proposed theoretical model in which a magnetic hoop stress diverts and squeezes the post-shock equatorial flow towards the poloidal direction generating a jet. Key words: ISM: jets and outflows — ISM: individual (G320.4?01.2) — ISM: supernova remnants — stars: pulsars: individual (PSR B1509?58) — X-rays: ISM 1. Introduction Recent X-ray observations revealed that part of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) have common structures of “Torus” and “Jet”, as typified by the crab pulsar (Hester et al. 2002; Weisskopf et al. 2000), the Vela pulsar (Pavlov et al. 2003; Helfand et al. 2001), and PSR B1509?58 (Gaensler et al. 2002). However the physical mechanisms which form the ubiquitous features, esp