Reanalysis of the X-Ray-burst-associated FRB 200428 with Insight-HXMT Observations
Abstract
A double-peak X-ray burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 was discovered to be associated with the two radio pulses of FRB 200428 separated by 28.97 ± 0.02 ms. Precise measurements of the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray bursts are helpful for understanding the physical origin of fast radio bursts. In this paper, we have reconstructed some information about the hard X-ray events, which were lost because the High Energy X-ray Telescope (HE) on board the Insight-HXMT mission was saturated by this extremely bright burst, and used the information to improve the temporal and spectral analyses of the X-ray burst. The arrival times of the two X-ray peaks by fitting the new Insight-HXMT/HE lightcurve with multi-Gaussian profiles are 2.77 ± 0.45 ms and 34.30 ± 0.56 ms after the first peak of FRB 200428, respectively, while these two parameters are 2.57 ± 0.52 ms and 32.5 ± 1.4 ms if the fitting profile is a fast-rise and exponential decay function. The spectrum of the two X-ray peaks could be described by a cutoff power law with cutoff energy ~60 keV and photon index ~1.4; the latter is softer than the result obtained in Li et al. when the two X-ray peaks appeared.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- August 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/acda1d
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2302.00176
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...953...67G
- Keywords:
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- Magnetars;
- X-ray bursts;
- Radio transient sources;
- 992;
- 1814;
- 2008;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 7 figures