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2025RNAAS...9..154K - Research Notes of the AAS, 9, 154 (2025/July-0)

On the Origin of the X-Ray Emission Surrounding PSR B0656+14 in the eROSITA Cal-PV Data.

KHOKHRIAKOVA A., BECKER W., PREDEHL P., SANDERS J.S., FREYBERG M. and SCHWOPE A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a cautionary assessment of the extended X-ray emission around PSR B0656+14 in eROSITA Cal-PV data in response to the work of S. Niu et al. The eROSITA point-spread function (PSF) model is known to underestimate emission in the wings beyond ${1}^{{\prime} }$. This prevents a reliable detection of faint nebular emission around PSR B0656+14 as claimed by S. Niu et al. In addition, spectral analysis shows the surrounding diffuse X-rays can be fitted with the same 2BB+PL model as the pulsar's emission itself. This strongly invalidates the interpretation by S. Niu et al. that the X-ray emission in the (4-10)${}^{{\prime} }$ region is associated with the degree-scale gamma-ray halo recently found by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, and shows that it originates from the pulsar due to the wings of the PSF.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): High energy astrophysics - Interstellar medium

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