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GCN Circular 29373

Subject
Konus-Wind detection of two bright bursts from SGR 1935+2154
Date
2021-01-29T16:39:15Z (4 years ago)
From
Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute <ridnaia@mail.ioffe.ru>
A. Ridnaia, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:

Two bright, short bursts from SGR 1935+2154
(GECAM detection: Huang et al., GCN Circ. 29363Loading...
 
 
IPN triangulation: Ridnaia et al., GCN Circ. 29365Loading...
 
 )
triggered Konus-Wind on 2021 January 27 at
24616.685 s UT (06:50:16.685), hereafter burst #1; and
on 2021 January 29 at 25196.932 s UT (06:59:56.932), burst #2.

The burst light curves feature a sharp rise,
followed by a gradual decay, and, finally,
a quick return of a count rate to the background level.
Additionally, the main pulse of burst #1 is preceded by
a weaker, partially overlapped sub-pulse.
The burst total durations are  ~100 ms (#1) and ~200 ms (#2).
The emission in both bursts is seen up to ~200 keV.

As measured by KW, the burst fluences and peak fluxes are as follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Date       T0(KW) s UT                   Fl*           PF**
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 20210127 24616.685 s UT(06:50:16.685)  0.91 +/-0.07  16.0 +/-3.2
2 20210129 25196.932 s UT(06:59:56.932)  3.14 +/-0.11  27.5 +/-4.4
------------------------------------------------------------------
*  -  Fluence (20-500 keV) in units of 1e-6 erg/cm2

** - Peak Flux (20-500 keV) on 2-ms time scale
        in units of 1e-6 erg/cm2/s

Time-averaged spectra of the bursts are well fit
by a power law with exponential cutoff model:
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
with the following parameters:
-------------------------------------------------------------
#   Tbeg-Tend         alpha            Ep(keV)    chi2/dof
-------------------------------------------------------------
1   0 - 0.064    -0.21(-1.00,+1.20)    31(-10,+5)   13/11
2   0 - 0.192    -0.33(-0.37,+0.40)    34(-3,+3)     14/20
-------------------------------------------------------------

These spectral parameters are typical of a few dosen SGR 1935+2154
short bursts detected by KW previously (with the notable exception
of the April 28 SGR/FRB event).

The Konus-Wind light curves of the bursts are available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/SGRs/210127_T24616/
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/SGRs/210129_T25196/

All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.