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Spectral modelling of a H.E.S.S.-detected pulsar wind nebula

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arxiv 1504.05043 v1 pith:WNQH6YB4 submitted 2015-04-20 astro-ph.HE

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In the last decade ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have discovered roughly 30 pulsar wind nebulae at energies above 100 GeV. We present first results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy density of a pulsar wind nebula by solving the Fokker-Planck transport equation and calculating inverse Compton and synchrotron emissivities. Although models such as these have been developed before, most of them model the geometry of a pulsar wind nebula as that of a single sphere. We have created a time-dependent, multi-zone model to investigate changes in the particle spectrum as the particles diffuse through the pulsar wind nebula, as well as predict the radiation spectrum at different positions in the nebula. We calibrate our new model against a more basic previous model and fit the observed spectrum of G0.9+0.1, incorporating data from the High Energy Stereoscopic System as well as radio and X-ray experiments.

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