Statistics of SGR 1900+14 bursts observed with BATSE and RXTE

Details Statistics of SGR 1900+14 bursts observed with BATSE and RXTE Statistics of SGR 1900+14 bursts observed with BATSE and RXTE

May 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...19513302g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #133.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.880

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We study the statistics of soft gamma repeater (SGR) bursts, using a data base of 187 events detected with BATSE and 837 events detected with RXTE PCA, all from SGR 1900+14 during its 1998-1999 active phase. We find that the fluence or energy distribution of bursts is consistent with a power law of index 1.66, over 4 orders of magnitude. This scale-free distribution resembles the Gutenberg-Richter Law for earthquakes, and gives evidence for self-organized criticality in SGRs. The distribution of time intervals between successive bursts from SGR 1900+14 is consistent with a log-normal distribution. There is no correlation between burst intensity and the waiting times till the next burst, but there is some evidence for a correlation between burst intensity and the time elapsed since the previous burst. We also find a correlation between the duration and the energy of the bursts, but with significant scatter. In all these statistical properties, SGR bursts resemble earthquakes and solar flares more closely than they resemble any known accretion-powered or nuclear-powered phenomena. Thus our analysis lends support to the hypothesis that the energy source for SGR bursts is internal to the neutron star, and plausibly magnetic.

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