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2008MNRAS.384L..29D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 384, L29-L33 (2008/February-2)

INTEGRAL observations of PSR J1811-1925 and its associated pulsar wind nebula.

DEAN A.J., DE ROSA A., McBRIDE V.A., LANDI R., HILL A.B., BASSANI L., BAZZANO A., BIRD A.J. and UBERTINI P.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present spectral measurements made in the soft (20-100keV) γ-ray band of the region containing the composite supernova remnant G11.2-0.3 and its associated pulsar PSR J1811-1925. Analysis of INTEGRAL/IBIS data allows characterization of the system above 10keV. The IBIS spectrum is best fitted by a power law having photon index Γ = 1.8+0.4–0.3 and a 20-100keV flux of 1.5x10–11 erg/cm2/s. Analysis of archival Chandra data over different energy bands rules out the supernova shell as the site of the soft γ-ray emission while broadband (1-200keV) spectral analysis strongly indicates that the INTEGRAL/IBIS photons originate in the central zone of the system which contains both the pulsar and its nebula. The composite X-ray and soft γ-ray spectrum indicates that the pulsar provides around half of the emission seen in the soft γ-ray domain; its spectrum is hard with no sign of a cut off up to at least 80keV. The other half of the emission above 10keV comes from the pulsar wind nebula; with a Γ = 1.7 its spectrum is softer than that of the pulsar. From the IBIS/ISGRI mosaics we are able to derive 2σ upper limits for the 20-100keV flux from the location of the nearby TeV source HESS J1809-193 to be 4.8 x10–12 erg/cm2/s. We have also examined the likelihood of an association between PSR J1811-1925 and HESS J1809-193. Although PSR J1811-1925 is the most energetic pulsar in the region, the only one detected above 10 keV and thus a possible source of energy to fuel the TeV fluxes, there is no morphological evidence to support this pairing, making it an unlikely counterpart.

Abstract Copyright: © 2007 The Authors

Journal keyword(s): pulsars: individual: PSR J1811-1925 - supernovae: individual: G11.2-0.3 - γ-rays: observations

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