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Title: A rotationally-powered magnetar nebula around Swift J1834.9-0846
Author: Diego F. Torres

A wind nebula, generating extended X-ray emission, was recently detected surrounding Swift J1834.9-0846. This is the first magnetar for which such a wind nebula was found. Here, we investigate whether there is a plausible scenario where the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) can be sustained without the need of advocating for additional sources of energy other than rotational. We do this by using a detailed radiative and dynamical code that studies the evolution of the nebula and its particle population in time. We find that such a scenario indeed exists: Swift J1834.9-0846's nebula can be explained as being rotationally-powered, as all other known PWNe are, if it is currently being compressed by the environment. The latter introduces several effects, the most important of which is the appearance of adiabatic heating, being increasingly dominant over the escape of particles as reverberation goes by. The need of reverberation naturally explains why this is the only magnetar nebula detected, and provides estimates for Swift 1834.9-0846's age.

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Title: X-ray and radio observations of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 and its dust-scattering halo
Authors: P. Esposito, A. Tiengo, N. Rea, R. Turolla, A. Fenzi, A. Giuliani, G. L. Israel, S. Zane, S. Mereghetti, A. Possenti, M. Burgay, L. Stella, D. Götz, R. Perna, R. P. Mignani, P. Romano

We present a long-term study of the 2011 outburst of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 carried out using new Chandra observations, as well as all the available Swift, RXTE, and XMM-Newton data. The last observation was performed on 2011 November 12, about 100 days after the onset of the bursting activity that had led to the discovery of the source on 2011 August 07. This long time span enabled us to refine the rotational ephemeris and observe a downturn in the decay of the X-ray flux. Assuming a broken power law for the long-term light curve, the break was at ~46 d after the outburst onset, when the decay index changed from alpha ~ 0.4 to ~4.5. The flux decreased by a factor ~2 in the first ~50 d and then by a factor ~40 until November 2011 (overall, by a factor ~70 in ~100 d). At the same time, the spectrum, which was well described by an absorbed blackbody all along the outburst, softened, the temperature dropping from ~1 to ~0.6 keV. Diffuse X-ray emission extending up to 20" from the source was clearly detected in all Chandra observations. Its spatial and spectral properties, as well as its time evolution, are consistent with a dust-scattering halo due to a single cloud located at a distance of \approx 200 pc from Swift J1834.9-0846, which should be in turn located at a distance of ~5 kpc. Considering the time delay of the scattered photons, the same dust cloud might also be responsible for the more extended emission detected in XMM-Newton data taken in September 2011. We searched for the radio signature of Swift J1834.9-0846 at radio frequencies using the Green Bank Radio Telescope and in archival data collected at Parkes from 1998 to 2003. No evidence for radio emission was found, down to a flux density of 0.05 mJy (at 2 GHz) during the outburst and ~0.2-0.3 mJy (at 1.4 GHz) in the older data.

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Title: Non-detection of pulsed radio emission from magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846: constraint on the fundamental plane of magnetar radio emissions
Authors: Z. Y. Liu, H. Tong, J. P. Yuan

The magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 is observed using Nanshan 25 meter radio telescope. No pulsed radio emission is detected. The upper limit on pulsed radio emission from this source is 0.5 mJy. According to the fundamental plane of magnetar radio emissions, this source should have radio emissions. Therefore, our results put constraints on the existence of fundamental plane of magnetar radio emissions. It may be that a small quiescent X-ray luminosity is only a necessary condition for magnetar radio emissions.

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Title: XMM-Newton view of Swift J1834.9-0846 and its Magnetar Wind Nebula
Authors: George Younes, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov, Ersin Gogus, Stefanie Wachter

We report on the analysis of two XMM-Newton observations of the recently discovered soft gamma repeater Swift J1834.9-0846, taken in September 2005 and one month after the source went into outburst on 2011 August 7. We performed timing and spectral analyses on the point source as well as on the extended emission. We find that the source period is consistent with an extrapolation of the Chandra ephemeris reported earlier and the spectral properties remained constant. The source luminosity decreased to a level of 1.6x10^34 erg s^-1 following a decay trend of \propto t^{-0.5}. Our spatial analysis of the source environment revealed the presence of two extended emission regions around the source. The first (Region A) is a symmetric ring around the point source, starting at 25arcsec and extending to ~50arcsec. We argue that Region A is a dust scattering halo. The second (Region B) has an asymmetrical shape extending between 50arcsec and 150arcsec, and is detected both in the pre- and post-outburst data. We argue that this region is a possible magnetar wind nebula (MWN). The X-ray efficiency of the MWN with respect to the rotation energy loss is substantially higher than those of rotation powered pulsars: \eta_X\equiv L_MWN,0.5-8 keV/\dot{E}_rot ~0.7. The higher efficiency points to a different energy source for the MWN of Swift J1834.9-0846, most likely bursting activity of the magnetar, powered by its high magnetic field, B=1.4x10^14 G.

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