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Figure 3:
Left: a fragment of the Geminga field image obtained
with the ESO/NTT in the I band (Bignami et al. 1996).
The contours of the
Subaru I band image are overlaid and the dashed-line arrow shows the
direction of the pulsar motion; the cross marks the
position of the pulsar at the epoch of the ESO/NTT observations.
Middle and right: near-infrared images of the same field obtained
with the HST/NICMOS in the
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Figure 5: A magnified fragment of the Subaru I band image of Geminga demonstrating an arc-like structure resembling a head of a bow-shock due to the pulsar supersonic motion in the interstellar matter (cf. contours in Fig.4). The motion direction is shown by arrow, the pulsar position is marked by a cross. |
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Figure 6: Magnified fragment of the Subaru I band image of PSR B0656+14 demonstrating possible existence of a PWN or a bow-shock structure around the pulsar (extended object in the center of the image). Contours are overlaid to underline the shape of the structure; the arrow shows the direction of the pulsar proper motion, the pulsar position is marked by a cross |
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Figure 7:
Dereddened NIR-UV broadband
spectra of
PSR B0656+14 ( left) and Geminga ( right)
summarizing the best up to date quality observations obtained with different
telescopes, instruments and filters, as indicated in the
plots and listed in Tables 5 and 6. Note a nonmonotonic
structure and remarkable similarity
of the broadband spectra for both pulsars.
Thin solid curves show
the spectroscopic data obtained
for PSR B0656+14 in the NUV (Shibanov et al. 2005)
and for Geminga in the FUV (Kargaltsev et al. 2005).
Dashed lines are the low energy extensions of the unabsorbed
soft blackbody (BB) and power law (PL)
spectral components derived from the
combined BB+BB+PL spectral fits
in X-rays. Parameters of the fits are taken from Koptsevich et al. (2001)
for PSR B0656+14 and from
Kargaltsev et al. (2005) for Geminga.
The second, hard BB components are
negligible for both pulsars in the NIR-UV range and not shown in the plots.
Dotted and
dot-dashed lines in the right panel show the PL fit
of the Geminga optical data in the range from
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Figure 8: Unabsorbed multiwavelength spectra of the two pulsars using available data from radio through gamma-rays, as notified in the plot. X-ray spectral components are extended to the optical range, while the optical one - to X-rays. |
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