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Table 2.

Apparent extension of the Crab Nebula.

ν [Hz] θ68[″]
5 × 109 117 ± 1 VLA (1)
150 × 109 115 ± 2 NIKA (2)
1.8 × 1012 112 ± 5 PACS 160 μm (3)
4.3 × 1012 112 ± 5 PACS 60 μm (3)
1.4 × 1013 137 ± 5 WISE 22 μm (4)
2.5 × 1013 119 ± 5 WISE 12 μm (4)
6.5 × 1013 140 ± 5 WISE 4.6 μm (4)
8.9 × 1013 141 ± 5 WISE 3.3 μm (4)
1.03 × 1015 99 ± 5 UVOT UVW1 (5)
2.66 × 1017 46 ± 4 Chandra (0.5 − 1.5) keV (6)
3.7 × 1017 43 ± 3 Chandra (1.5 − 3.0) keV (6)
8 × 1017 39 ± 3 Chandra (3 − 6) keV (6)
1.2 × 1018 37 ± 3 NuSTAR (5 − 6) keV (7)
2.4 × 1018 33 ± 3 NuSTAR (8 − 12) keV (7)
1.2 × 1019 27 ± 3 NuSTAR (35 − 80) keV (7)

Eγ [GeV] θ68[″]

7 121 ± 47 Fermi-LAT (8)
14 209 ± 22 (8)
28 125 ± 26 (8)
56 114 ± 14 (8)
112 95 ± 29 (8)
214 83 ± 26 (8)
990 121 ± 38 (8)
1050 79 ± 10 H.E.S.S. (9)

Notes. The apparent angular size of the nebula was calculated by integrating the observed intensity over the solid angle up to θ68 which is the percentile that encloses 68% of the total flux. Whenever needed, point sources were excluded and background subtracted.

References. (1) Bietenholz et al. (2004), (2) Fig. 5 of Ritacco et al. (2018), (3) Herschel Science Archive (HSA), (4) Infrared Science Archive (IRSA), (5) XMM-Newton Science Archive (XSA), (6) Chandra Data archive, (7) Madsen et al. (2015), (8) Yeung & Horns (2019), (9) H. E. S. S. Collaboration (2020).

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