A Re-brightening of the Radio Nebula associated with the 2004 December 27 giant flare from SGR 1806--20

Details A Re-brightening of the Radio Nebula associated with the 2004 December 27 giant flare from SGR 1806--20 A Re-brightening of the Radio Nebula associated with the 2004 December 27 giant flare from SGR 1806--20

2005-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503269v3

Astrophys.J. 634 (2005) L89-L92

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by ApJL, minor changes due to referee comments

Scientific paper

10.1086/498643

The 2004 Dec. 27 giant Gamma-ray flare detected from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 created an expanding radio nebula which we have monitored with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Very Large Array. These data indicate that there was an increase in the observed flux ~25 days after the initial flare that lasted for ~8 days, which we believe is the result of ambient material swept-up and shocked by this radio nebula. For a distance to SGR 1806-20 of 15 kpc, using the properties of this rebrightening we infer that the initial blast wave was dominated by baryonic material of mass M>10^{24.5} g. For an initial expansion velocity v~0.7c (as derived in an accompanying paper), we infer this material had an initial kinetic energy E>10^{44.5} ergs. If this material originated from the magnetar itself, it may have emitted a burst of ultra-high energy (E > 1 TeV) neutrinos far brighter than that expected from other astrophysical sources.

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