Pulsar wind–disk collision leads to enhanced pulsar wind power dissipation, as seen through a larger value for L_thermal in the presence of a torus located outside R_LC (black curves) than for an isolated pulsar (purple curves) in panel (d). We show the total luminosity (a), the electromagnetic luminosity (b), the rest-mass luminosity (c), and the thermal luminosity (d). The black curves correspond to the early phase of the sim-d36 simulation (time-averaged over t ∈ [1000; 2000]r_g/c to spatially distinguish the energy content of the torus, and the purple curves correspond to the isolated pulsar case.