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The Five Year Fermi/GBM Magnetar Burst Catalog

Authors :
Matthew G. Baring
A. J. van der Horst
Melissa Gibby
Andrew C. Collazzi
Daniela Huppenkothen
Vandiver Chaplin
David Gruber
Jonathan Granot
Ralph A. M. J. Wijers
Yuki Kaneko
A. von Kienlin
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Mark H. Finger
J. McEnery
Ersin Gogus
Anna L. Watts
George Younes
P. N. Bhat
Neil Gehrels
M. van der Klis
Lin Lin
High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)
Source :
The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series, 218(1):11. IOP Publishing Ltd.
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
IOP Publishing Ltd., 2015.

Abstract

Since launch in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected many hundreds of bursts from magnetar sources. While the vast majority of these bursts have been attributed to several known magnetars, there is also a small sample of magnetar-like bursts of unknown origin. Here we present the Fermi/GBM magnetar catalog, giving the results of the temporal and spectral analyses of 440 magnetar bursts with high temporal and spectral resolution. This catalog covers the first five years of GBM magnetar observations, from July 2008 to June 2013. We provide durations, spectral parameters for various models, fluences and peak fluxes for all the bursts, as well as a detailed temporal analysis for SGR J1550-5418 bursts. Finally, we suggest that some of the bursts of unknown origin are associated with the newly discovered magnetar 3XMM J185246.6+0033.7.<br />Comment: 65 pages, 24 figures, 13 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Supplement

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00670049
Volume :
218
Issue :
1
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6ac65af13c4e8704d0ca9692465d8796
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/1/11