Bayesian timing analysis of giant flare of SGR 1806-20 by RXTE PCA

Details Bayesian timing analysis of giant flare of SGR 1806-20 by RXTE PCA Bayesian timing analysis of giant flare of SGR 1806-20 by RXTE PCA

2010-12-27

arxiv.org/abs/1012.5654v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 7 figures, A&A accepted

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By detecting high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and estimating frequencies of them during the decaying tail of giant flares from Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) useful constraints for the equation of state (EoS) of superdense matter may be obtained via comparison with theoretical predictions of eigenfrequencies. We used the data collected by the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE/XTE) Proportional Counter Array (PCA) of a giant flare of SGR 1806-20 on 2004 Dec 27 and applied a Bayesian periodicity detection method (Gregory & Loredo, 1992) for the search of oscillations of transient nature. In addition to the already detected frequencies, we found a few new frequencies (f_{QPOs} ~ 16.9, 21.4, 36.4, 59.0, 116.3 Hz) of oscillations predicted by Colaiuda et al. (2009) based on the APR_{14} EoS (Akmal et al., 1998) for SGR 1806-20.

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