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Soft Gamma Repeaters Revisited with BATSE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

C. Kouveliotou
C. Kouveliotou*
Affiliation:
USRA, NASA/MSFC, ES-84, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA

Abstract

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After the first 4 years of its operation, the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), detected recurrent emission from two of the three known Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) sources, SGR 1900+14 and SGR 1806-20. The reactivation of the latter prompted a quick international campaign resulting in the identification of the X-ray counterpart of the source, which also coincides with a compact radio source. The absence of detection of new sources in the 4 years of BATSE operation and the reactivation of two of the three already known SGRs, indicates that these objects are rare. We give here a short review of the previously detected SGR emissions and present the recent results obtained with BATSE.

Type
8 Gamma-ray Bursts
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 165: Compact Stars in Binaries , 1996 , pp. 477 - 488
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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