Soft gamma repeaters outside the Local group

Details Soft gamma repeaters outside the Local group Soft gamma repeaters outside the Local group

2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503532v4

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 365 (2006) 885-890

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages with 3 figures; accepted to MNRAS (final version)

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09767.x

We propose that the best sites to search for SGRs outside the Local group are galaxies with active massive star formation. Different possibilities to observe SGR activity from these sites are discussed. In particular we searched for giant flares from nearby galaxies ($\sim 2$ -- 4 Mpc) M82, M83, NGC 253, and NGC 4945 in the BATSE data. No candidates alike giant SGR flares were found. The absence of such detections implies that the rate of giant flares with energy release in the initial spike above $0.5 \cdot 10^{44}$ erg is less then 1/25 yr$^{-1}$ in our Galaxy. However, hyperflares similar to the one of 27 December 2004 can be observed from larger distances. Nevertheless, we do not see any significant excess of short GRBs from the Virgo galaxy cluster and from galaxies Arp 299 and NGC 3256 with extremely high star formation rate. This implies that the galactic rate of hyperflares with energy release $\sim 10^{46}$ erg is less than $\sim 10^{-3}$ yr$^{-1}$. With this constraint the fraction of possible extragalactic SGR hyperflares among BATSE short GRBs should not exceed few percents. We present a list of short GRBs coincident with galaxies mentioned above, and discuss the possibility that some of them are SGR giant flares. We propose that the best target for observations of extragalactic SGR flares by {\it Swift} is the Virgo cluster.

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