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GeV Observations of the Extended Pulsar Wind Nebulae Constrain the Pulsar Interpretations of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Excess

GeV Observations of the Extended Pulsar Wind Nebulae Constrain the Pulsar Interpretations of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Excess

Abstract It has long been suggested that nearby pulsars within ∼1 kpc are the leading candidate of the 10–500 GeV cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and other experiments. The recent measurement of the surface brightness profile of TeV nebulae surrounding Geminga and PSR B0656+14 by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov …