Diagnosing Magnetars with Spectral Line Features

Details Diagnosing Magnetars with Spectral Line Features Diagnosing Magnetars with Spectral Line Features

Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003head....7.5104i&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #7, #51.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.659

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Evidence of magnetars associated with Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars has accumulated over the years, including the extremely energetic and short burst durations, the long spin period and high spin-down, and also lack of evidence for a binary companion of a remnant accretion disk. Nevertheless, the determination of magnetars' most important parameter, the magnetic field strength, remained indirect for the past decade. With the Proportional Counter Array on board the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we have recently discovered a 5 keV absorption feature in the burst spectra of SGR 1806-20. Consistent with proton cyclotron resonance, the feature provided a direct measurement of a magnetar-strength field and implied constraints on the mass and radius of the source. Here we outline our result and present further analysis and interpretation of new data.

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