Systematic study of magnetar outbursts

Understand

We present the results of the systematic study of all magnetar outbursts observed to date, through a reanalysis of data acquired in about 1100 X-ray observations.

• We track the temporal evolution of the outbursts soft X-ray spectral properties and the luminosities of the single spectral components as well as of the total emission.
• We model empirically all outburst light curves, and estimate the characteristic decay time-scales as well as the energetics involved.
• We investigate the link between different parameters (e.g.