Reactivation and Precise IPN Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR1900+14
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In 1998 May, the soft gamma repeater SGR1900+14 emerged from several years of quiescence and emitted a series of intense bursts, one with a time history unlike any previously observed from this source. Triangulation using Ulysses, BATSE, and KONUS data give a 1.6 square arcminute error box near the galactic supernova remnant G42.8+0.6. This error box contains a quiescent soft X-ray source which is probably a neutron star associated with the soft repeater.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9811411,
title = {Reactivation and Precise IPN Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR1900+14},
author = {K. Hurley and C. Kouveliotou and P. Woods and T. Cline and P. Butterworth and E. Mazets and S. Golenetskii and D. Frederics},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9811411},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters