Zane, S;
Rea, N;
Turolla, R;
Nobili, L;
(2009)
X-ray spectra from magnetar candidates - III. Fitting SGRs/AXPs soft X-ray emission with non-relativistic Monte Carlo models.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 398
(3)
1403 - 1413.
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15190.x.
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Abstract
Within the magnetar scenario, the ‘twisted magnetosphere’ model appears very promising in explaining the persistent X-ray emission from soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). In the first two papers of the series, we have presented a 3D Monte Carlo code for solving radiation transport as soft, thermal photons emitted by the star surface are resonantly upscattered by the magnetospheric particles. A spectral model archive has been generated and implemented in xspec. Here, we report on the systematic application of our spectral model to different XMM–Newton and INTEGRAL observations of SGRs and AXPs. We find that the synthetic spectra provide a very good fit to the data for the nearly all the source (and source states) we have analysed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | X-ray spectra from magnetar candidates - III. Fitting SGRs/AXPs soft X-ray emission with non-relativistic Monte Carlo models |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15190.x |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15190.x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2009 RAS Definitive versions of articles pre-2013 are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2966, now published by http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords: | adiation mechanisms: non-thermal, stars: neutron, X-rays: stars |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/178101 |
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