I How to explain the strange pulsar in the Crab Nebula?

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According to generally accepted ideas, the pulsar in the Crab Nebula is a single non-accreting neutron star, and the excess of X-ray radiation in its spectrum is explained by its young age and high surface temperature. However, in the X-ray photo of the Crab Nebula, a vortex of gas around the pulsar is clearly visible. Moreover, a cone of radiation is visible coming out of the pulsar in the center of the vortex, which is directed far from our direction.

According to generally accepted ideas, the pulsar in the Crab Nebula is a single non-accreting neutron star, and the excess of X-ray radiation in its spectrum is explained by its young age and high surface temperature. However, in the X-ray photo of the Crab Nebula, a vortex of gas around the pulsar is clearly visible. Moreover, a cone of radiation is visible coming out of the pulsar in the center of the vortex, which is directed far from our direction.
According to generally accepted ideas, radiation from gas accretion onto a neutron star spreads in the form of a cone from magnetic poles, to which the accreted matter flows down in the form of a vortex. We see this scheme in the X-ray photo of the pulsar.
In this case, accretion is a random additional phenomenon that showed where the perpendicular from the magnetic pole of the emitting object is directed.
And it is not directed at us, which probably contradicts the generally accepted ideas about the radiation of pulsars (including radio pulsars, of which this pulsar is believed to be a predecessor).

What do you feel about it?

 

[willyengland]

Isn't the magnetic dipole perpendicular to its rotation axis?
Or what exactly is your question?

 

[Bandersnatch]

It's a pulsar wind nebula, with shock waves and a jet aligned with rotation axis. Not a vortex or a cone of radiation of the type that is producing the pulses.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05184

What do you feel about it?

I feel that, once again, you're trying to form far reaching conclusions based on how a blurry picture looks to you.

 

[berkeman]

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[Nugatory]

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