Reactivation and Precise Interplanetary Network Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14
Abstract
In 1998 May, the soft gamma repeater SGR 1900+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 gives a 1.6 arcmin2 error box near the Galactic supernova remnant G42.8+0.6. This error box contains a quiescent soft X-ray source that is probably a neutron star associated with the soft repeater.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- January 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1086/311821
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9811411
- Bibcode:
- 1999ApJ...510L.107H
- Keywords:
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- GAMMA RAYS: BURSTS;
- STARS: NEUTRON;
- ISM: SUPERNOVA REMNANTS;
- Gamma Rays: Bursts;
- Stars: Neutron;
- ISM: Supernova Remnants;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters