GECAM obs. of SGR J1935+2154. I. Burst catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Xie S.-L.
  2. Cai Ce
  3. Yu Y.-W.
  4. Xiong S.-L.
  5. Lin L.
  6. Zhao Yi
  7. Zhang S.-N.,Song L.-M.
  8. Wang P.
  9. Li X.-B.
  10. Xue W.-C.
  11. Zhang P.
  12. Zheng C.
  13. Zhang Y.-Q.,Liu J.-C.
  14. Wang C.-W.
  15. Tan W.-J.
  16. Wang Y.
  17. Yu Z.-H.
  18. Feng P.-Y.,Zhang J.-P.
  19. Xiao S.
  20. Zhao H.-S.
  21. Zhang W.-L.
  22. Zhang Y.-T.
  23. Huang Y.,Zhao X.-Y.
  24. Ma X.
  25. Zheng S.-J.
  26. Li X.-Q.
  27. Wen X.-Y.
  28. Gong Ke
  29. An Z.-H.,Zhang D.-L.
  30. Yang S.
  31. Liu X.-J.
  32. Zhang F.
  33. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Magnetars are neutron stars with ultrahigh magnetic fields (~10^14^-10^15^G). The magnetar SGR J1935+2154 is not only one of the most active magnetars detected so far, but also the unique confirmed source of fast radio bursts. The Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is dedicated to monitor gamma-ray transients all over the sky, including magnetar short bursts. Here we report the GECAM observations of the burst activity of SGR J1935+2154 from 2021 January to 2022 December, which results in a unique and valuable data set for this important magnetar. With a targeted search of GECAM data, 159 bursts from SGR J1935+2154 are detected by GECAM-B while 97 bursts are detected by GECAM-C, including the X-ray burst associated with a bright radio burst. We find that both the burst duration and the waiting time between two successive bursts follow lognormal distributions. The period of burst activity is 134+/-20 days, thus the burst activity could be generally divided into four active episodes over these two years. Interestingly, the hardness ratio of X-ray bursts tends to be softer during these two years, especially during the active episode with radio bursts detected.

Keywords
  1. neutron-stars
  2. gamma-ray-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2025ApJS..277....5X
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier/bb-8n-5

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History

2026-02-16T11:36:34Z
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2026-02-16T11:36:34Z
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2026-03-03T20:03:11Z
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