X-ray Flares Raising upon Magnetar Plateau as an Implication of a Surrounding Disk of Newborn Magnetized Neutron Star

Abstract

The X-ray flares have usually been ascribed to long-lasting activities of the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), e.g., fallback accretion. The GRB X-ray plateaus, however, favor a millisecond magnetar central engine. The fallback accretion can be significantly suppressed due to the propeller effect of a magnetar. Therefore, if the propeller regime cannot resist the mass flow onto the surface of the magnetar efficiently, the X-ray flares raise upon the magnetar plateau would be hinted. In this work, such peculiar cases are connected to the accretion process of a magnetar, and an implication for magnetar-disc structure is given. We investigate the repeating accretion process with multi-flare GRB 050730, and give a discussion for the accreting induced variation of the magnetic field in GRB 111209A. Two or more flares exhibit in the GRB 050730, GRB 060607A, and GRB 140304A; by adopting magnetar mass $M=1.4M_{\odot }$ and radius $R=12\mathrm{km}$, the average mass flow rates of the corresponding surrounding disk are $3.53\times 10^{-4}{M}_{\odot }{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, $4.23\times 10^{-4}{M}_{\odot }{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, and $4.33\times 10^{-4}{M}_{\odot }{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, and the corresponding average sizes of the magnetosphere are $5.01\times 10^6\mathrm{cm}$, $6.45\times 10^6\mathrm{cm}$, and $1.09\times 10^7\mathrm{cm}$, respectively. A statistic analysis that contains 8 GRBs within 12 flares shows that the total mass loading in single flare is $\sim 2\times 10^{-5}{M}_{\odot }$. In the lost mass of a disk, there are about 0.1% used to feed a collimated jet.

arXiv comment15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, to be published in RAA

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