Detection of spectral evolution in the bursts emitted during the 2008-2009 active episode of SGR J1550-5418

Andreas Von Kienlin, David Gruber, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Jonathan Granot, Matthew G. Baring, Ersin Gögüş, Daniela Huppenkothen, Yuki Kaneko, Lin Lin, Anna L. Watts, Narayana P. Bhat, Sylvain Guiriec, Alexander J. Van Der Horst, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Jochen Greiner, Charles A. Meegan, William S. Paciesas, Robert D. Preece, Arne Rau

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תקציר

In early 2008 October, the soft gamma repeater SGRJ1550-5418 (1E1547.0-5408, AXJ155052-5418, PSRJ1550-5418) became active, emitting a series of bursts which triggered the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) after which a second especially intense activity period commenced in 2009 January and a third, less active period was detected in 2009 March-April. Here, we analyze the GBM data for all the bursts from the first and last active episodes. We performed temporal and spectral analysis for all events and found that their temporal characteristics are very similar to the ones of other SGR bursts, as well the ones reported for the bursts of the main episode (average burst durations 170ms). In addition, we used our sample of bursts to quantify the systematic uncertainties of the GBM location algorithm for soft gamma-ray transients to ≲8°. Our spectral analysis indicates significant spectral evolution between the first and last set of events. Although the 2008 October events are best fitted with a single blackbody function, for the 2009 bursts an optically thin thermal bremsstrahlung is clearly preferred. We attribute this evolution to changes in the magnetic field topology of the source, possibly due to effects following the very energetic main bursting episode.

שפה מקוריתאנגלית
מספר המאמר150
כתב עתAstrophysical Journal
כרך755
מספר גיליון2
מזהי עצם דיגיטלי (DOIs)
סטטוס פרסוםפורסם - 20 אוג׳ 2012

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