Burst and persistent emission properties during the recent active episode of the anomalous x-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045

Lin Lin; Chryssa Kouveliotou; Ersin Gogus; Alexander J. van der Horst; Anna L. Watts; Matthew G. Baring; Yuki Kaneko; Ralph A. M. J. Wijers; Peter M. Woods; Scott Barthelmy; James Michael Burgess; Vandiver Chaplin; Neil Gehrels; Adam Goldstein; Jonathan Granot; Sylvain Guiriec; Julie Mcenery; Robert D. Preece; David Tierney; Michiel van der Klis; Andreas von Kienlin; Shuang Nan Zhang

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Burst and persistent emission properties during the recent active episode of the anomalous x-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045

Lin Lin, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Ersin Gogus, Alexander J. van der Horst, Anna L. Watts, Matthew G. Baring, Yuki Kaneko, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers, Peter M. Woods, Scott Barthelmy, James Michael Burgess, Vandiver Chaplin, Neil Gehrels, Adam Goldstein, Jonathan Granot, Sylvain Guiriec, Julie Mcenery, Robert D. Preece, David Tierney, Michiel van der KlisAndreas von Kienlin, Shuang Nan Zhang

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The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope detected the first burst from 1E 1841-045 in 2010 May with intermittent burst activity recorded through at least 2011 July. Here we present Swift and Fermi/Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observations of this burst activity and search for correlated changes to the persistent X-ray emission of the source. The T-90 durations of the bursts range between 18 and 140 ms, comparable to other magnetar burst durations, while the energy released in each burst ranges between (0.8-25) x 10(38) erg, which is on the low side of soft gamma repeater bursts. We find that the bursting activity did not have a significant effect on the persistent flux level of the source. We argue that the mechanism leading to this sporadic burst activity in 1E 1841-045 might not involve large-scale restructuring (either crustal or magnetospheric) as seen in other magnetar sources.

Original language	English
Article number	L16
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	6
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume	740
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/740/1/L16
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2011

Keywords

pulsars: individual (1E 1841-045)
X-rays: bursts
SOFT GAMMA-REPEATERS
KES 73
SUPERNOVA REMNANT
2002 OUTBURST
SGR 1627-41
4U 0142+61
MAGNETAR
1E-1841-045
MONITOR
DISCOVERY

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Lin, L., Kouveliotou, C., Gogus, E., van der Horst, A. J., Watts, A. L., Baring, M. G., Kaneko, Y., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Woods, P. M., Barthelmy, S., Burgess, J. M., Chaplin, V., Gehrels, N., Goldstein, A., Granot, J., Guiriec, S., Mcenery, J., Preece, R. D., Tierney, D., ... Zhang, S. N. (2011). Burst and persistent emission properties during the recent active episode of the anomalous x-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 740(1), -. Article L16. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/740/1/L16

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Burst and persistent emission properties during the recent active episode of the anomalous x-ray pulsar 1E 1841-045

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