Licentiate defense: Natalia Lundqvist "THE YOUNG PULSAR PSR B0540-69.3 AND ITS SURROUNDINGS"
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Europe/Stockholm
FA31
FA31
Description
Massive stars live short lives and die violently. Their end products are energetic and/or represent extreme physical conditions. The most massive ones can produce black holes, Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, magnetars etc. The death of massive stars therefore provide a laboratory to test physics that we can not do on Earth. In this thesis I discuss one object in the Large Magellanic Cloud that exploded about 1000 years ago (or actually in reality about 160 000 years ago). The shock wave from this explosion can now be seen to interact with surrounding gas, and in the center there lurks a rapidly spinning pulsar. Here I mainly concentrate on the pulsar and its wind nebula, and some comparisons are made with its sibling, the Crab pulsar. The first part of the thesis provides a more general outline of the subject.
