2011/06/30 by Paul Scholz, V. M. Kaspi, Victoria M. Kaspi · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Context (archaeology) #Flux (metallurgy) #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Geology #Magnetar #Materials science #Optics #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radiative transfer #Telescope #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/739/2/94
10 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
openalex publication_date 2011/09/14 · arxiv created 2011/10/24 · arxiv updated 2015/05/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The magnetar 1E 1547–5408 recently exhibited two periods of outburst, beginning on 2008 October 3 and 2009 January 22. Here we present an analysis of the persistent radiative evolution and a statistical study of the burst properties during the 2009 outburst using the Swift X-Ray Telescope. We find that the 1–10 keV flux increased by a factor of ∼500 and hardened significantly, peaking ∼6 hr after the onset of the outburst. The observed pulsed fraction exhibited an anti-correlation with phase-averaged flux. Properties of the several hundred X-ray bursts during the 2009 outburst were determined and compared to those from other magnetar outburst events. We find that the peaks of the bursts occur randomly in phase but that the folded counts that compose the bursts exhibit a pulse which is misaligned with the persistent pulse phase. We also report a correlation between burst hardness and flux. We compare the hardness–flux evolution of the persistent emission of both outbursts to those from other magnetars and find that although an overall trend does exist, the degree of hardening for a given increase in flux is not uniform from source to source. These results are discussed in the context of previous results and within the magnetar model.