Environmental Influences in SGRs and AXPs

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1999-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912315v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages with 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 5th Huntsville GRB Symposium (Huntsville, AL, Oct. 1999)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1361653

Soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous x-ray pulsars (AXPs) are young (<100 kyr), radio-quiet, x-ray pulsars which have been rapidly spun-down to slow spin periods clustered at 5-12 s. Nearly all of these unusual pulsars also appear to be associated with supernova shell remnants (SNRs) with typical ages <20 kyr. If the unusual properties of SGRs and AXPs were due to an innate feature, such as a superstrong magnetic field, then the pre-supernova environments of SGRs and AXPs should be typical of neutron star progenitors. This is not the case, however, as we demonstrate that the interstellar media which surrounded the SGR and AXP progenitors and their SNRs were unusually dense compared to the environments around most young radio pulsars and SNRs. Thus, if these SNR associations are real, the SGRs and AXPs can not be ``magnetars'', and we suggest instead that the environments surrounding SGRs and AXPs play a controlling role in their development.

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