A broadband X-ray study of the Rabbit pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1418-6058

Abstract

We report on broadband X-ray properties of the Rabbit pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with the pulsar PSR J1418-6058 using archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data, and a new NuSTAR observation. NuSTAR data above 10 keV allowed us to detect the 110-ms spin period of the pulsar, characterize its hard X-ray pulse profile, and resolve hard X-ray emission from the PWN after removing contamination from the pulsar and other overlapping point sources. The extended PWN was detected up to $\sim$20 keV and is well described by a power-law model with a photon index $\Gamma \approx$2. The PWN shape does not vary significantly with energy, and its X-ray spectrum shows no clear evidence of softening away from the pulsar. We modeled the spatial profile of X-ray spectra and broadband spectral energy distribution in the radio to TeV band to infer the physical properties of the PWN. We found that a model with low magnetic field strength ($B\sim 10$ $\mu$G) and efficient diffusion ($D\sim 10^{27}$ cm${}^2$ s${}^{-1}$) fits the PWN data well. The extended hard X-ray and TeV emission, associated respectively with synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electrons, suggests that particles are accelerated to very high energies ($\gtrsim 500$ TeV), indicating that the Rabbit PWN is a Galactic PeVatron candidate.

arXiv comment21 pages, 10 figures. ApJ accepted

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