This table provides references (up to 8 Feb 2017, with NASA ADS links) for *observational papers* relating to magnetar bursts. It covers all 19 sources which have shown repeated bursts and where the spin (confirming that the source is a neutron star) has also been measured [sporadic bursts have also been seen from several magnetar candidates, see the
McGill Online Magnetar Catalogue for details]. This site is maintained by Anna Watts and is a work in progress. You are welcome to use this reference library in publications: please refer to the url (http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.l.watts/magnetar/mb.html) in either the acknowledgements or a footnote.
This table includes only refereed journal papers. Note that many bursts were first reported via IAU or GCN Circulars.
Bursts are classified into three classes: short bursts (isotropic energies up to ~10
41 erg); intermediate bursts (isotropic energy ~10
41-10
43 erg) and giant flares (isotropic energy ~10
44-10
46 erg). Given the uncertainty in distance and spectral model these classifications are not exact.
The papers included report observations in the X-ray, Gamma-ray, Radio and Gravitational wave bands.
| Source |
Year of burst discovery |
Bursting behaviour and relevant observational papers |
| SGR 1806-20 |
1979 |
Short bursts
(Mazets & Golenetskii 1981;
Atteia et al. 1987;
Laros et al. 1987;
Kouveliotou et al. 1987;
Kouveliotou et al. 1994;
Fenimore, Laros & Ulmer 1994;
Cheng et al. 1996;
Gögüs et al. 2000;
Gögüs et al. 2001;
Aptekar et al. 2001;
Götz et al. 2004;
Nakagawa et al. 2007;
Esposito et al. 2007;
Abbott et al. 2008;
Abadie et al. 2011;
Prieskorn & Kaaret 2012 ;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
Intermediate flares
(Gögüs et al. 2011)
Giant flare
(Hurley et al. 2005;
Palmer et al. 2005;
Terasawa et al. 2005;
Israel et al.2005;
Mazets et al. 2005;
Mereghetti et al. 2005;
Schwartz et al. 2005;
Cameron et al. 2005;
Gaensler et al. 2005;
Gelfand et al. 2005;
Taylor et al. 2005;
Fender et al. 2006;
Watts & Strohmayer 2006;
Strohmayer & Watts 2006;
Mandea & Balasis 2006;
Boggs et al. 2007;
Tanaka et al. 2007;
Inan et al. 2007;
Frederiks et al. 2007;
Abbott et al. 2007;
Abbott et al. 2008;
Spreeuw et al. 2010;
Xing & Yu 2011;
Tanaka et al. 2011;
Nickolaenko et al. 2012;
Nickolaenko et al. 2014;
Huppenkothen, Watts & Levin 2014) |
| SGR 0526-66 |
1979 |
Short bursts
(Golenetskii et al. 1979;
Golenetskii, Ilinskii & Mazets 1984;
Golenetskii et al. 1987;
Aptekar et al. 2001)
Giant flare
(Mazets et al. 1979;
Barat et al. 1979;
Vedrenne et al. 1979;
Terrell et al. 1980;
Cline et al. 1980;
Fenimore et al. 1981;
Fenimore et al. 1996) |
| SGR 1900+14 |
1979 |
Short bursts
(Mazets, Golenetskii & Guryan 1979;
Kouveliotou et al. 1993;
Hurley et al. 1999;
Mazets et al. 1999;
Woods et al.1999a;
Woods et al. 1999b;
Woods et al. 1999c;
Gögüs et al. 2001;
Aptekar et al. 2001;
Feroci et al. 2003;
Feroci et al. 2004;
Nakagawa et al. 2007;
Israel et al. 2008;
Abbott et al. 2008;
Abbott et al. 2009;
Abadie et al. 2011
Prieskorn & Kaaret 2012 )
Intermediate flares
(Mazets et al. 1999;
Ibrahim et al. 2001;
Kouveliotou et al. 2001;
Lenters et al. 2003;
Olive et al. 2004;
Guidorzi et al. 2004;
Esposito et al. 2007a;
Israel et al. 2008;
Abbott et al. 2009)
Giant flare
(Hurley et al. 1999;
Feroci et al. 1999;
Mazets et al. 1999;
Frail, Kulkarni & Bloom 1999;
Inan et al. 1999;
Woods et al. 2001;
Feroci et al. 2001;
Thompson & Duncan 2001;
Price & Mushtak 2001;
Guidorzi et al. 2004;
Strohmayer & Watts 2005;
Tanaka et al. 2007;
Tanaka et al. 2008)
|
| SGR 1627-41 |
1998 |
Short bursts
(Woods et al. 1999b;
Mazets et al. 1999;
Aptekar et al. 2001;
Esposito et al. 2008;
Abadie et al. 2011
)
Intermediate flare
(Mazets et al. 1999)
|
| 1E 1048.1-5937 |
2002 |
Short bursts
(Gavriil, Kaspi & Woods 2002;
Gavriil, Kaspi & Woods 2006;
Dib, Kaspi & Gavriil 2009;
An et al. 2014)
|
| 1E 2259+586 |
2002 |
Short bursts
(Kaspi et al. 2003;
Gavriil, Kaspi & Woods 2004;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| XTE J1810-197 |
2003 |
Short bursts
(Woods et al. 2005)
|
| 4U 0142+61 |
2006 |
Short bursts
(Gavriil, Dib & Kaspi 2011;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| PSR J1846-0258 |
2006 |
Short bursts
(Gavriil et al. 2008)
|
| CXOU J164710.2-455216 |
2006 |
Short bursts
(Muno et al. 2007)
|
| SGR 0501+4526 |
2008{a} |
Short bursts
(Enoto et al. 2009;
Aptekar et al. 2009;
Kumar, Ibrahim & Safi-Harb 2010;
Watts et al. 2010;
Gögüs et al. 2010;
Abadie et al. 2011
Lin et al. 2011;
Lin et al. 2012;
Huppenkothen et al. 2013;
Lin et al. 2013;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| 1E 1547.0-5408 (SGR J1550-5418) |
2008 |
Short bursts
(Mereghetti et al. 2009;
Israel et al. 2010;
Savchenko et al. 2010;
Kaneko et al. 2010;
Tanaka et al. 2010;
Scholz & Kaspi 2011;
Abadie et al. 2011;
van der Horst et al. 2012;
von Kienlin et al. 2012;
Enoto et al. 2012;
Lin et al. 2012;
Lin et al. 2013;
Younes et al. 2014;
Huppenkothen et al. 2014;
Raulin et al. 2014;
Collazzi et al. 2015;
Mus et al. 2015)
Intermediate flares
(Mereghetti et al. 2009;
Savchenko et al. 2010;
Abadie et al. 2011;
Pintore et al. 2017) |
| SGR 0418+5729 |
2000 |
Short bursts
(van der Horst et al. 2010;
Abadie et al. 2011;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| SGR 1833-0832 |
2010 |
Short bursts
(Gögüs et al. 2010)
|
| 1E 1841-045 |
2010 |
Short bursts
(Kumar & Safi-Harb 2010;
Lin et al. 2011;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| Swift J1822.3-1606 |
2011 |
Short bursts
(Scholz et al. 2012;
Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| Swift J1834.9-0846 |
2011 |
Short bursts
(Kargaltsev et al. 2012;
Esposito et al. 2013)
|
| SGR J1745-2900 |
2013 |
Short bursts
(Kennea et al. 2013;
Kaspi et al. 2014)
|
| 3XMM J185246.6+0033.7 |
2013? |
Short bursts
(Collazzi et al. 2015)
|
| PSR J1119-6127 |
2016 |
Short bursts
(Gogus et al. 2016)
|
| SGR 1935+2154 |
2014 |
Short bursts
(Israel et al. 2016)
Intermediate flares (Kozlova et al. 2016)
|
Footnotes:
Last modified: 8 Feb 2017
For additions or corrections please contact Anna Watts at A.L.Watts(at)uva.nl