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Direct Evidence for r-process Nucleosynthesis in Delayed MeV Emission from the SGR 1806–20 Magnetar Giant Flare

  • Authors: Anirudh Patel, Brian D. Metzger, Jakub Cehula, Eric Burns, Jared A. Goldberg, Todd A. Thompson

Anirudh Patel et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 984 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Example ∼ MeV gamma-ray light curve Lγ(t) of r-process ejecta, calculated based on a multizone ejecta model from A. Patel et al. (2025), with Mej ≈ 1.2 × 10−6 M, Mr ≈ 7 × 10−7 M, ﹩\bar{v}=0.15c﹩, and β = 6, fΩ = 3/4. Attenuation is treated approximately following K. Hotokezaka et al. (2016) for an assumed constant opacity κγ = 0.1 cm2 g−1. Shown with a purple line is the late-time MeV light curve of the SGR 1806–20 giant flare detected by INTEGRAL ACS (S. Mereghetti et al. 2005) over the time window 675–12,000 s, with the best-fit decay rate ∝ t−1.2±0.1 in dark purple above the light curve to guide the eye (Figure 4; Appendix A). The top panel shows the cumulative fluence for an assumed source distance d = 8.7 kpc (J. L. Bibby et al. 2008) in comparison to the estimated total fluence based on measurements from ACS and RHESSI (S. E. Boggs et al. 2007; Appendix A).

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