2023/12/01 by Shotaro Yamasaki, Yamasaki, Shotaro, Ersin Göğüş +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Biology #Context (archaeology) #Energy (signal processing) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Magnetar #Paleontology #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Randomness #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #Statistics #earthquake and tectonic studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.00782
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
openalex publication_date 2023/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
In this study, we explore the dynamical stability of magnetar bursts within the context of the chaos-randomness phase space for the first time, aiming to uncover unique behaviors compared to various astrophysical transients, including fast radio bursts (FRBs). We analyze burst energy time series data from active magnetar sources SGR J1550-5418 and SGR J1935+2154, focusing on burst arrival time and energy differences between consecutive events. We find a distinct separation in the time domain, where magnetar bursts exhibit significantly lower randomness compared to FRBs, solar flares, and earthquakes, with a slightly higher degree of chaos. In the energy domain, magnetar bursts exhibit a broad consistency with other phenomena, primarily due to the wide distribution of chaos-randomness observed across different bursts and sources. Intriguingly, contrary to expectations from the FRB-magnetar connection, the arrival time patterns of magnetar bursts in our analysis do not exhibit significant proximity to repeating FRBs in the chaos-randomness plane. This finding may challenge the hypothesis that FRBs are associated with typical magnetar bursts but indirectly supports the evidence that FRBs may primarily be linked to special magnetar bursts like peculiar X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154 observed simultaneously with Galactic FRB 200428.