Giant radio pulses in the magnetar XTE J1810-197 detected with the IAR's telescopes

Abstract

[...] We observed XTE J1810-197 between 29 September 2022 and 14 July 2023 with the radio telescopes at the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy (IAR). We searched for single pulses in time series at a DM range of 100-400 pc cm-3 , with a threshold in signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 8. [...] We found 249 giant pulses at a DM mean value of 178.8$\pm$0.1 pc cm-3 . We measured peak flux densities up to 119 Jy, and fluences up to 58 Jy ms. We fitted a power law distribution to the flux density, obtaining an index of -4.0$\pm$0.3. We observed a maximum rate of approximately 15 pulses per hour on 20 February 2023, followed by an abrupt disappearance of transient radio emission, indicating a transition to a less active state. The brightest single pulses are limited to a $\sim$2$\%$ of the rotational phase and have similar fluence values to the reported intermediate FRB-like bursts of SGR 1935+2154. No significant X-ray activity in the MAXI data was detected during the radio observing period. This is the first study of single radio pulses of a magnetar using IAR data, showing the potential of the upgraded telescopes for investigating the transient radio sky. The properties of the single pulses detected here show the magnetar transient nature and capability to emit high-luminosity pulses. We compared the detected emission to FRB-like bursts and single pulses emitted by SGR 1935+2154. Even though the mechanism producing all the events should be coherent, the luminosity of the events, features on the dynamic spectra, and the difference between being phase confined or not, indicate that XTE J1810-197 presents GP emission, while SGR 1935+2154 only shows normal single pulses or FRB bursts. This could indicate that the conditions for producing each type of event differ.

12 pages, 12 figures, proposed for acceptance in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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