INTEGRAL observes continued activity from AXP 1E1547.0-5408
ATel #1908; C. Baldovin, V. Savchenko, V. Beckmann, A. Neronov (ISDC), D. Goetz (CEA/Saclay), P. den Hartog, W. Hermsen, L. Kuiper (SRON), S. Mereghetti (IASF/INAF Milano), K. Hurley (UCB)
on 25 Jan 2009; 18:24 UT
Distributed as an Instant Email Notice Request For Observations
Credential Certification: Volker Beckmann (Volker.Beckmann@obs.unige.ch)
Subjects: X-ray, Gamma Ray, Neutron Star, Soft Gamma-ray Repeater, Transient
INTEGRAL performed a ToO observation on the AXP 1E1547.0-5408, triggered by the intense outbursts detected on 2009-01-22 (GCN 8837, 8834, 8833). The still ongoing INTEGRAL observation started at 2009-01-24T15:31 and will last for 100 ks. Within the first 80 ks of the observation, the AXP is detected by IBIS/ISGRI with 14.6 sigma significance and a flux of 9.8±0.7 mCrab (20-40 keV). The 20-150 keV spectrum can be fit by a simple power law model with photon index 1.8±0.2 and a model flux of f(20-150 keV) = 2.6e-10 erg/cm**2/sec.
During the observation, more than 15 short bursts were detected in IBIS/ISGRI, with durations ranging from 10 ms to about 1 second. A preliminary, non-exhaustive list of burst times and durations is as follows:
approximate
burst start time [UT] duration [ms]
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2009-01-24T15:48:34 50
22:29:45 110
23:41:30 50+50 (double peaked at 1s interval)
2009-01-25T03:07:25 10
03:37:00 30
04:17:19 110
05:22:09 500 (plus a 200 ms precursor 4s before)
05:25:05 600 (3 peaks of 200 ms each)
05:35:17 150
06:39:01 800
08:43:43 >1000
The last event of this list was saturated in IBIS/ISGRI. This burst is also detected by INTEGRAL SPI-ACS and by Konus-Wind (GCN 8851).
A 2.5 ksec Swift/XRT observation, which started at 2009-01-24T06:16, can also be fit by a simple absorbed power law model in the 0.3-8 keV range (photon index 2.8±0.1, hydrogen column density 4.3±0.3 e22 1/cm**2), but shows a flux level about 8 times lower than the later IBIS/ISGRI data, indicating strong variability. The XRT image still shows the dust halos reported by Tiengo et al. 2009 (GCN 8848).
The SPI-ACS events can be found under http://isdc.unige.ch/Soft/ibas/ibas_acs_web.cgi
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