Radio Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Surrounding Supernova Ejecta: 
Application to FRB 121102

Dai, Z. G.; Wang, Jieshuang; Yu, Y. W.

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa6745

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Radio Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Surrounding Supernova Ejecta: Application to FRB 121102

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Wang, Jieshuang
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Dai, Z. G., Wang, J., & Yu, Y. W. (2017). Radio Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Surrounding Supernova Ejecta: Application to FRB 121102. Astrophysical Journal, Letters, 838(1): L7. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa6745.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-B425-B

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In this paper, we propose a new scenario in which a rapidly rotating strongly magnetized pulsar without any surrounding supernova ejecta repeatedly produces fast radio bursts (FRBs) via a range of possible mechanisms; simultaneously, an ultra-relativistic electron/positron pair wind from the pulsar sweeps up its ambient dense interstellar medium, giving rise to a non-relativistic pulsar wind nebula (PWN). We show that the synchrotron radio emission from such a PWN is bright enough to account for the recently discovered persistent radio source associated with the repeating FRB 121102 within reasonable ranges of the model parameters. Our PWN scenario is consistent with the non-evolution of the dispersion measure inferred from all of the repeating bursts observed in four years.