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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 552, Issue 2, Pages 748-755Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/320571
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pulsars : individual (SGR 1900+14); stars : magnetic fields; X-rays : bursts
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We report the detection of large flux changes in the persistent X-ray flux of soft gamma repeater (SGR) 1900+14 during its burst active episode in 1998. Most notably, we find a factor of similar to 700 increase in the nonburst X-ray flux following the August 27 flare, which decayed in time as a power law. Our measurements indicate that the pulse fraction remains constant throughout this decay. This suggests a global flux enhancement as a consequence of the August 27 flare rather than localized heating. While the persistent flux has since recovered to the preoutburst level, the pulse profile has not. The pulse shape changed to a near sinusoidal profile within the tail of the August 27 flare (in gamma -rays), and this effect has persisted for more than 1.5 years (in X-rays). The results presented here suggest that the magnetic field of the neutron star in SGR 1900+14 was significantly altered (perhaps globally) during the giant flare of August 27.
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