ASCA Discovery of an X-ray Pulsar in the Error Box of SGR1900+14

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1998-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811388v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/311820

We present a 2 - 10 keV ASCA observation of the field around the soft gamma repeater SGR1900+14. One quiescent X-ray source was detected in this observation, and it was in the SGR error box. In 2 - 10 keV X-rays, its spectrum may be fit by a power law with index -2.2, and its unabsorbed flux is 9.6 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1. We also find a clear 5.16 s period. The properties of the three well-studied soft gamma repeaters are remarkably similar to one another, and provide evidence that all of them are associated with young, strongly magnetized neutron stars in supernova remnants.

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