Confinement of the Crab Nebula with tangled magnetic field by its supernova remnant

Shuta J. Tanaka, Kenji Toma, Nozomu Tominaga

A pulsar wind is a relativistic outflow dominated by Poynting energy at its base. Based on the standard ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) with the…