HESS J1640-465 -- a Gamma-ray emitting pulsar wind nebula ?

Abstract

HESS J1640-465 is an extended TeV $\gamma$-ray source and its $\gamma$-ray emission whether from the shell of a supernova remnant (SNR) or a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) is still under debate. We reanalyze the GeV $\gamma$-ray data in the field of HESS J1640-465 using eight years of Pass 8 data recorded by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. An extended GeV $\gamma$-ray source positionally coincident with HESS J1640-465 is found. Its photon spectrum can be described by a power-law with an index of $1.42\pm 0.19$ in the energy range of 10-500 GeV, and smoothly connects with the TeV spectrum of HESS J1640-465. The broadband spectrum of HESS J1640-465 can be well fit by a leptonic model with a broken power-law spectrum of electrons with an exponential cut-off at $\sim$ 300 TeV. The spectral properties of HESS J1640-465 are broadly consistent with the characteristics of other sources identified as PWNe, such as the correlations between high-energy luminosity ratios and the physical parameters of pulsar, including spin-down luminosity $\dot{E}$ and characteristic age ${\tau }_c$. All these pieces of evidence support that the $\gamma$-ray emission of HESS J1640-465 may originate from the PWN powered by PSR J1640-4631 rather than the shell of the SNR G338.3-0.0.

arXiv comment10 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Accepted by ApJ

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