Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics on January 11, 2006 Several changes and more data analyzed wrt to previ
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20054210
The sky region containing the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1627-41 has been observed three times with XMM-Newton in February and September 2004. SGR 1627-41 has been detected with an absorbed flux of ~9x10^{-14} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} (2-10 keV). For a distance of 11 kpc, this corresponds to a luminosity of ~3x10^{33} erg s^{-1}, the smallest ever observed for a Soft Gamma Repeater and possibly related to the long period of inactivity of this source. The observed flux is smaller than that seen with Chandra in 2001-2003, suggesting that the source was still fading and had not yet reached a steady quiescent level. The spectrum is equally well fit by a steep power law (photon index \~3.2) or by a blackbody with temperature kT~0.8 keV. We also report on the INTEGRAL transient IGR J16358-4726 that lies at ~10' from SGR 1627-41. It was detected only in September 2004 with a luminosity of ~4x10^{33} erg s^{-1} (for d=7 kpc), while in February 2004 it was at least a factor 10 fainter.
Esposito Paolo
Feroci Marco
Israel Gian Luca
Mereghetti Sandro
Stella Luigi
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