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The effect of X-ray dust scattering on a bright burst from the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408

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Date Issued
2017
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Vianello, Giacomo
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Costantini, Elisa
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Abstract
A bright burst, followed by an X-ray tail lasting ∼10 ks, was detected during an XMM-Newton observation of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 carried out on 2009 February 3. The burst, also observed by Swift/BAT, had a spectrum well fitted by the sum of two blackbodies with temperatures of ∼4 and 10 keV and a fluence in the 0.3-150 keV energy range of ∼10-5 erg cm-2. The X-ray tail had a fluence of ∼4 × 10-8 erg cm-2. Thanks to the knowledge of the distances and relative optical depths of three dust clouds between us and 1E 1547.0-5408, we show that most of the X-rays in the tail can be explained by dust scattering of the burst emission, except for the first ∼20-30 s. We point out that other X-ray tails observed after strong magnetar bursts may contain a non-negligible contribution due to dust scattering.
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467
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3
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3467
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0035-8711
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2017MNRAS.467.3467P
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