Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters in clusters of massive stars
作者:
I. Fe´lix Mirabel,
Yae¨l Fuchs,
Sylvain Chaty,
期刊:
AIP Conference Proceedings
(AIP Available online 1900)
卷期:
Volume 526,
issue 1
页码: 814-817
ISSN:0094-243X
年代: 1900
DOI:10.1063/1.1361647
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Infrared observations of the environment of the two Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) with the best known locations on the sky show that they are associated with clusters of massive stars. Observations with ISO revealed thatSGR&hthinsp;1806−20is in a cluster of giant massive stars, still enshrouded in a dense cloud of gas and dust [1].SGR&hthinsp;1900+14is at the edge of a similar cluster that was recently found hidden in the glare of a pair of M5 supergiant stars [2]. Since none of the stars of these clusters has shown in the last years significant flux variations in the infrared, these two SGRs do not form bound binary systems with massive stars.SGR&hthinsp;1806−20is at only ∼0.4 pc, andSGR&hthinsp;1900+14at ∼0.8 pc from the centers of their parental star clusters. If these SGRs were born with typical neutron star runaway velocities of ∼300 km&hthinsp;s−1, they are not older than a few103years. We propose thatSGR&hthinsp;1806−20andSGR&hthinsp;1900+14are ideal laboratories to study the evolution of supernovae explosions inside interstellar bubbles produced by the strong winds that prevail in clusters of massive stars. ©2000 American Institute of Physics.
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