Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett. 370 (2006) L14-L18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, one color figure. Revised version contains several small improvements, als
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00178.x
It is generally accepted that Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) are magnetars, i.e. neutron stars with extremely high surface magnetic fields ($B > 10^{14}$ G). The origin of these high magnetic fields is uncertain, but a popular hypothesis is that magnetars are born with an initial spin period not much exceeding the convective overturn time (~3ms), which results in a powerful dynamo action, amplifying the seed magnetic field to $> ~10^{15}$ G. Part of this rotation energy is then expected to power the supernova through rapid magnetic braking. It is therefore possible that magnetars creation is accompanied by supernovae that are an order of magnitude more energetic than normal supernovae, provided their initial spin period is ~1 ms. However, we list here evidence that the explosion energies of these supernova remnants associated with AXPs and SGRs -- Kes 73 (AXP 1E 1841-045), CTB 109 (AXP 1E2259+586) and N49 (SGR 0526-66) -- are close to the canonical supernova explosion energy of $10^{51}$~erg, suggesting an initial spin period of > ~5ms. We therefore do not find evidence that magnetars are formed from rapidly rotating proto-neutron stars, allowing for the possibility that they descend from stellar progenitor with high magnetic field cores, and we discuss the merits of both formation scenarios. In an appendix we describe the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of Kes 73 and N49 used to derive the explosion energies for these remnants.
Kuiper Lucien
Vink Jacco
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