Speaker
Maria Arias
Description
The Crab Nebula, the pulsar wind nebula surrounding the Crab pulsar, is one of the most thoroughly studied objects in the sky. In this talk, I will present a subarcsecond resolution image of the nebula at 150 MHz, which is possibly the highest dynamic range image ever made with LOFAR. The new observations allow us to measure the expansion of the pulsar wind nebula, which resulted from a supernova explosion in 1054. Our map further shows new absorption features that can shed light on the magnetic field properties of the nebula.
| In-person or online? | in-person |
|---|---|
| keywords | ILT, Milky Way, supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae |
| Career level | ECR |
Primary authors
Maria Arias
Roland Timmerman
(Durham University)
