Publication Date:
2014-10-22
Description:
Globular clusters (GCs) contain huge number of low-mass stars and also large number of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Due to the number of stars, the stellar and MSP winds mix efficiently within the GC. Such mixture of winds leaves GC and interacts with the galactic medium creating a bow shock nebula around GC. The bow shock nebula is filled with relativistic leptons accelerated in the pulsar magnetospheres and/or wind regions. We argue that nebulae around GCs, immersed in relatively dense medium close to the galactic plane, should have complicated morphology due to interaction with the surrounding gas. Therefore, TeV -ray sources, related to these nebulae, are expected to be misaligned in respect to GC cores, as observed in the case of GC Ter 5. On the other hand, GCs in low-density medium, i.e. far away from the galactic disc, should produce bow shocks at large distances from the GC cores. The TeV -ray sources around such nebulae are expected to be almost spherical and centred on the GC cores. We perform numerical calculations of the TeV -ray emission produced by leptons escaping from the GC Ter 5. It is shown that TeV -ray source related to Ter 5 should be misaligned in respect to the core of GC as observed by the HESS Collaboration.
Print ISSN:
0035-8711
Electronic ISSN:
1365-2966
Topics:
Physics
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