Conveners
Galactic
- Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Pulsars and their Wind Nebulae exhibit intriguing features when moving at supersonic speeds through ambient medium, such as bow-shaped shocks and cometary tails. Studying the PWNe provides valuable insights into pulsars, radiative efficiency, properties of the surrounding medium, and the physics of the wind-medium interaction. Additionally, it contributes to our understanding of the...
In the past decades, infrared surveys carried out with instruments like Spitzer have revolutionized our understanding of evolved stars, revealing a plethora of ring- and disk-like sources spread across the Galactic Plane. Many of these structures were later confirmed as relics of mass-loss events from massive stars, contributing to a more profound characterization of their interplay with the...
Deep radio continuum surveys are an essential tool for the study of the different populations of Galactic radio-emitting objects. So far, however, statistical studies of these families are severely affected by selection effects due to the limited capabilities of existing surveys, which undermine the detection of the shallowest and most extended sources. This observational bias results in an...
