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The young radio pulsar J1124-5916 is associated with a Cas A like supernovaremnant G292.0+1.8. It powers a compact torus-like pulsar wind nebula with ajet first detected in X-rays and then identified in the optical andmid-infrared. We carried out deep near-infrared observations of the pulsarfield to identify the pulsar and its nebula in this range. The direct imagingmode of the NACO adaptive optics instrument at the ESO VLT in the H and Ksbands was used. In both bands we detected a faint, H=21.30(10) andKs=20.45(10), extended elliptical object, whose center position is consistentwith the X-ray position of the pulsar. The morphology of the object and theorientation of its major axis are in a good agreement with those observed forthe pulsar torus-like nebula in the mid-infrared, optical, and X-rays. Thissuggests that it is the near-infrared counterpart of the nebula. The measuredfluxes compiled with the data in other ranges show a complicated unabsorbedpower law spectrum of the torus-like nebula with several steep breaks betweenthe near-infrared and mid-infrared, the optical and X-rays, and possibly in themid-infrared. This implies a multiple relativistic particle populationresponsible for the synchrotron emission of the nebula in different spectralranges. We have not resolved the pulsar counterpart from its nebula and placeonly upper limits on its brightness, H >= 23.9$ and Ks >= 22.7. Based on that,its contribution to the total near-infrared flux of the pulsar+nebula system is<= 10%, which is comparable with the expected contribution in the optical.

The PSR J1124-5916 wind nebula in the near-infrared