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    Multiband Emission from Pulsar Wind Nebulae: A Possible Injection Spectrum

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    A recent research shows that particles with a spectrum of a relativistic Maxwellian plus a high-energy tail can be accelerated by relativistic collisionless shocks. We investigate the possibility of the high-energy particles with this new spectrum injected in pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) from the terminate shock based on the study of multiwavelength emission from PWNe.} {The dynamics of a supernova remnant (SNR) and multiband nonthermal emission from the PWN inside the remnant are investigated using a dynamical model with electrons/positrons injected with the new spectrum. In this model, the dynamical and radiative evolution of a pulsar wind nebula in a non-radiative supernova remnant can be self-consistently described.} {This model is applied to the three composite SNRs, G0.9+0.1, MSH 15-52, G338.3-0.0, and the multiband observed emission from the three PWNe can be well reproduced.} {Our studies on the three remnant provide evidence for the new spectrum of the particles, which are accelerated by the terminate shock, injected into a PWN.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted by A&

    Abundance of moderate-redshift clusters in the Cold + Hot dark matter model

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    Using a set of \pppm simulation which accurately treats the density evolution of two components of dark matter, we study the evolution of clusters in the Cold + Hot dark matter (CHDM) model. The mass function, the velocity dispersion function and the temperature function of clusters are calculated for four different epochs of z≤0.5z\le 0.5. We also use the simulation data to test the Press-Schechter expression of the halo abundance as a function of the velocity dispersion σv\sigma_v. The model predictions are in good agreement with the observational data of local cluster abundances (z=0z=0). We also tentatively compare the model with the Gunn and his collaborators' observation of rich clusters at z≈0.8z\approx 0.8 and with the x-ray luminous clusters at z≈0.5z\approx 0.5 of the {\it Einstein} Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey. The important feature of the model is the rapid formation of clusters in the near past: the abundances of clusters of \sigma_v\ge 700\kms and of \sigma_v\ge 1200 \kms at z=0.5z=0.5 are only 1/4 and 1/10 respectively of the present values (z=0z=0). Ongoing ROSAT and AXAF surveys of distant clusters will provide sensitive tests to the model. The abundance of clusters at z≈0.5z\approx 0.5 would also be a good discriminator between the CHDM model and a low-density flat CDM model both of which show very similar clustering properties at z=0z=0.Comment: 21 pages + 6 figures (uuencoded version of the PS files), Steward Preprints No. 118
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