Speaker
Mr
Paul Kin-Hang YEUNG
(University of Hamburg)
Description
The Crab nebula is a bright emitter of non-thermal radiation across the entire
accessible range of wavelengths. The spatial and spectral structures of the synchrotron nebula are well-resolved from radio to hard X-ray emission. The un-pulsed emission at GeV to TeV energies is mostly produced via inverse-Compton scattering of energetic electrons with the synchrotron-emitted photons. The spatial structure observed at these energies provides insights into the distribution of electrons and indirectly constrains the so-far unknown structure of the magnetic field in the nebula.
Analyzing
the LAT data accumulated over $\sim$9.1 years with a properly refined
model for the Crab pulsar's spectrum, we determined the uniform-disk
radius of the Crab Nebula to be $0.040^\circ\pm0.002^\circ$ ($2.40'\pm
0.12'$) in the 5--500 GeV band. We report that the systematic
uncertainties associated with the PSF are not a serious issue, based on
our evaluation of it with the point-like source Mkn 421. By comparison
between $Fermi$ LAT and H.E.S.S. results, we find evidence for
an energy-dependent shrinking of the Crab Nebula's $\gamma$-ray
extension.
Primary author
Mr
Paul Kin-Hang YEUNG
(University of Hamburg)
Co-author
Prof.
Dieter Horns
(Univ. Hamburg)