Unveiling Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with INTEGRAL

Details Unveiling Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with INTEGRAL Unveiling Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters with INTEGRAL

2006-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609404v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 7 figures, Presented at the conference "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Surface to the Interior", London, UK, 24-28

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10509-007-9379-x

Thanks to INTEGRAL's long exposures of the Galactic Plane, the two brightest Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters, SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14, have been monitored and studied in detail for the first time at hard-X/soft gamma rays. This has produced a wealth of new scientific results, which we will review here. Since SGR 1806-20 was particularly active during the last two years, more than 300 short bursts have been observed with INTEGRAL. and their characteristics have been studied with unprecedented sensitivity in the 15-200 keV range. A hardness-intensity anticorrelation within the bursts has been discovered and the overall Number-Intensity distribution of the bursts has been determined. In addition, a particularly active state, during which ~100 bursts were emitted in ~10 minutes, has been observed on October 5 2004, indicating that the source activity was rapidly increasing. This eventually led to the Giant Flare of December 27th 2004, for which a possible soft gamma-ray (>80 keV) early afterglow has been detected. The deep observations allowed us to discover the persistent emission in hard X-rays (20-150 keV) from 1806-20 and 1900+14, the latter being in a quiescent state, and to directly compare the spectral characteristics of all Magnetars (two SGRs and three Anomalous X-ray Pulsars) detected with INTEGRAL.

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