Jul 5 – 10, 2021
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Magnetar Giant Flare Origin of Gamma-Ray Burst

Jul 6, 2021, 7:10 AM
20m
Invited talk in the parallel session Unusual and New Types of Gamma-ray Bursts Unusual and New Types of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker

Jun Yang (Nanjing University)

Description

The giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) have long been proposed to contribute to at least a subsample of the observed short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We performed a comprehensive analysis of the high-energy data of the bright short GRB 200415A, which was located close to the Sculptor galaxy. Our results suggest that a magnetar giant flare provides the most natural explanation for most observational properties of GRB 200415A, including its location, temporal and spectral features, energy, statistical correlations, and high-energy emissions. On the other hand, the compact star merger GRB model is found to have difficulty reproducing such an event in a nearby distance. Future detections and follow-up observations of similar events are essential to firmly establish the connection between SGR giant flares and a subsample of nearby short GRBs.

Primary authors

Jun Yang (Nanjing University) Dr Vikas Chand (Nanjing University) Prof. Binbin Zhang (Nanjing University) Prof. Bing Zhang (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

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