Multi-Wavelength Constraints on the Outflow Properties of the Extremely Bright Millisecond Radio Bursts from the Galactic Magnetar SGR 1935+2154

Abstract

Extremely bright coherent radio bursts with millisecond duration, reminiscent of cosmological fast radio bursts (FRBs), were co-detected with anomalously-hard X-ray bursts from a Galactic magnetar SGR 1935$+$2154. We investigate the possibility that the event was triggered by the magnetic energy injection inside the magnetosphere, thereby producing magnetically-trapped fireball (FB) and relativistic outflows simultaneously. The thermal component of the X-ray burst is consistent with a trapped FB with an average temperature of $\sim 200$-$300$ keV and size of $\sim 10^5$ cm. Meanwhile, the non-thermal component of the X-ray burst and the coherent radio burst may arise from relativistic outflows. We calculate the dynamical evolution of the outflow, launched with an energy budget of $10^{39}$-$10^{40}$ erg comparable to that for the trapped FB, for different initial baryon load $\eta$ and magnetization ${\sigma }_0$. If hard X-ray and radio bursts are both produced by the energy dissipation of the outflow, the outflow properties are constrained by combining the conditions for photon escape and the intrinsic timing offset $\lesssim 10$ ms among radio and X-ray burst spikes. We show that the hard X-ray burst must be generated at $r_{\mathrm{X}}\gtrsim 10^8$ cm from the magnetar, irrespective of the emission mechanism. Moreover, we find that the outflow quickly accelerates up to a Lorentz factor of $10^2\lesssim \Gamma \lesssim 10^3$ by the time it reaches the edge of the magnetosphere and the dissipation occurs at $10^{12}$ cm $\lesssim r_{\mathrm{radio},\mathrm{X}}\lesssim 10^{14}$ cm. Our results imply either extremely-clean ($\eta \gtrsim 10^4$) or highly-magnetized (${\sigma }_0\gtrsim 10^3$) outflows, which might be consistent with the rarity of the phenomenon.

arXiv comment13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, MNRAS in press, updated to match the accepted version

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