Searching for extragalactic soft gamma-ray repeaters

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Sep 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008cxo..prop.2596o&link_type=abstract

Chandra proposal ID #10500347

Physics

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The available observational evidence suggests that SGRs are highly magnetized (~10^14 G), young neutron stars. The best path to revealing the origin, evolution and formation channels of SGRs, is a detailed environmental study of a large sample of such objects. Unfortunately, current research of these objects is limited by the small number of known SGRs. We are planing to use GLAST/GBM in concert with Swift/XRT to identify SGR giant flares in nearby galaxies. However, in order to get arcsecond-accuracy locations of these events, which are needed for an environmental study, we ask for Chandra ToO of up to 2 events for which we will detect X-ray afterglows using Swift/XRT.

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