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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 460, Issue 2, Pages 2008-2014Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1109
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stars: magnetars; pulsars: individual: SGR 1935+2154; gamma-rays: stars
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- RFBR [15-02-00532a]
- NASA [NNX07AR71G]
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We report on the bright burst detected by four Interplanetary network (IPN) spacecraft on 2015 April 12. The IPN localization of the source is consistent with the position of the recently discovered soft gamma-repeater SGR 1935+2154. From the Konus-Wind (KW) observation, we derive temporal and spectral parameters of the emission, and the burst energetics. The rather long duration of the burst (similar to 1.7 s) and the large measured energy fluence (similar to 2.5 x 10(-5) erg cm(-2)) put it in the class of rare 'intermediate' soft gamma-repeater (SGR) flares, and this is the first one observed from SGR 1935+2154. A search for quasi-periodic oscillations in the KW light curve yields no statistically significant signal. Of four spectral models tested, optically thin thermal bremsstrahlung and a single blackbody (BB) function can be rejected on statistical grounds; two more complex models, a cutoff power law (CPL) and a sum of two BB functions (2BB), fit the burst spectra well and neither of them may be ruled out by the KW observation. The CPL and 2BB model parameters we report for this bright flare are typical of SGRs; they are also consistent with those obtained from observations of much weaker and shorter SGR 1935+2154 bursts with other instruments. From the distribution of 2BB spectral fit parameters we estimate the SGR 1935+2154 distance to be < 10.0 kpc, in agreement with that of the Galactic supernova remnant G57.2+0.8 at 9.1 kpc.
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