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IXPE and XMM-Newton Observations of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1806–20

2023; IOP Publishing; Volume: 954; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3847/1538-4357/aced05

1538-4357

Roberto Turolla, Roberto Taverna, G. L. Israel, Fabio Muleri, Silvia Zane, Matteo Bachetti, Jeremy Heyl, Alessandro Di Marco, Ephraim Gau, H. Krawczynski, Mason Ng, Andrea Possenti, Juri Poutanen, L. Baldini, G. Matt, Michela Negro, I. Agudo, L. A. Antonelli, W. H. Baumgartner, R. Bellazzini, S. Bianchi, Stephen D. Bongiorno, R. Bonino, A. Brez, N. Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, E. Cavazzuti, Chieng-Ting Chen, S. Ciprini, E. Costa, Alessandra De Rosa, E. Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, I. Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovčiak, Steven R. Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Y. Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier A. García, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, W. Iwakiri, Svetlana G. Jorstad, P. Kaaret, V. Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Fabio La Monaca, L. Latronico, Ioannis Liodakis, S. Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Alan P. Marscher, Herman L. Marshall, F. Massaro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, C.‐Y. Ng, Stephen L. O’Dell, N. Omodei, C. Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Abel L. Peirson, M. Perri, M. Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, M. Pilia, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, O. J. Roberts, Roger W. Romani, C. Sgrò, Patrick Slane, P. Soffitta, G. Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, F. Tavecchio, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F. Tennant, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, A. Trois, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Jacco Vink, Martin C. Weisskopf, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie,

Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Abstract Recent observations with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of two anomalous X-ray pulsars provided evidence that X-ray emission from magnetar sources is strongly polarized. Here we report on the joint IXPE and XMM-Newton observations of the soft γ -repeater SGR 1806–20. The spectral and timing properties of SGR 1806–20 derived from XMM-Newton data are in broad agreement with previous measurements; however, we found the source at an all-time low persistent flux level. No significant polarization was measured apart from the 4–5 keV energy range, where a probable detection with PD = 31.6% ± 10.5% and <?CDATA $\mathrm{PA}=-17\buildrel{\circ}\over{.} {6}_{-15\buildrel{\circ}\over{.} 0}^{+15\buildrel{\circ}\over{.} 5}$?> PA = − 17 .° 6 − 15 .° 0 + 15 .° 5 was obtained. The resulting polarization signal, together with the upper limits we derive at lower and higher energies (2–4 and 5–8 keV, respectively), is compatible with a picture in which thermal radiation from the condensed star surface is reprocessed by resonant Compton scattering in the magnetosphere, similar to what was proposed for the bright magnetar 4U 0142+61.