Energy-dependent extension of the Crab Nebula as a diagnostic of ultrahigh-energy hadronic emission

arXiv:2608.25497 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures. Published in Physical Review D

Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 114, 043066 (2026)

DOI: 10.1103/dnsv-plc9

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Streaming Instability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula
• Discovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula
• Peta-electron volt gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula
• Modeling the broadest spectral band of the Crab nebula and constraining the ions acceleration efficiency
• PeV emission of the Crab Nebula: constraints on the proton content in pulsar wind and implications
• Ultrahigh-energy Gamma-Ray Radiation from the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula
• All-sky search for time-integrated neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 7 years of IceCube data
• Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data
• IceCube Search for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae
• All-sky neutrino point-source search with IceCube combined track and cascade data
• Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane
• Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0
• Multi-band Emission up to PeV Energy from the Crab Nebula in a Spatially Dependent Lepto-hadronic Model
• Hadronic emission from the environment of the Crab Pulsar Wind Nebula by re-accelerated particles
• Phenomenological modelling of the Crab Nebula's broad band energy spectrum and its apparent extension
• Spectrum and extension of the inverse-Compton emission of the Crab Nebula from a combined Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. analysis
• Origin of the Cosmic Ray Galactic Halo Driven by Advected Turbulence and Self-Generated Waves
• Particle acceleration in relativistic collisionless shocks: Fermi process at last?
• Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Collisionless Electron-Ion Shocks
• Acceleration of Particles at the Termination Shock of a Relativistic Striped Wind

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