Burst and Outburst Characteristics of Magnetar 4U 0142+61

Open Access
Authors
  • E. Göğüş
  • L. Lin
  • O.J. Roberts
  • M. Chakraborty
Publication date 20-01-2017
Journal Astrophysical Journal
Article number 68
Volume | Issue number 835 | 1
Number of pages 8
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We have compiled the most comprehensive burst sample from magnetar 4U 0142+61, comprising 27 bursts from its three burst-active episodes in 2011, 2012 and the latest one in 2015 observed with Swift/Burst Alert Telescope and Fermi/Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Bursts from 4U 0142+61 morphologically resemble typical short bursts from other magnetars. However, 4U 0142+61 bursts are less energetic compared to the bulk of magnetar bursts. We uncovered an extended tail emission following a burst on 2015 February 28, with a thermal nature, cooling over a timescale of several minutes. During this tail emission, we also uncovered pulse peak phase aligned X-ray bursts, which could originate from the same underlying mechanism as that of the extended burst tail, or an associated and spatially coincident but different mechanism.
Document type Article
Note © 2017. The American Astronomical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/68
Other links http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJ...835...68G
Downloads
Permalink to this page
Back