TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for the optical counterpart to SGR 0418+5729
AU - Durant, Martin
AU - Kargaltsev, Oleg
AU - Pavlov, George G.
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - We report broadband Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the field of soft γ-ray repeater SGR 0418+5729 with Advanced Camera for Surveys/Wide Field Channel and Wide Field Camera 3/IR. Observing in two wide filters, F606W and F110W, we find no counterpart within the positional error circle derived from Chandra observations, to limiting magnitudes m F606W > 28.6 and m F110W > 27.4 (Vega system), equivalent to reddening-corrected luminosity limits L F606W < 5 × 1028 and L F110W < 6 × 1028ergs-1 for a distance d = 2kpc, at 3σ confidence. This, in turn, imposes lower limits on the contemporaneous X-ray/optical flux ratio of ≃1100 and the X-ray/near-infrared flux ratio of ≃1000. We derive an upper limit on the temperature and/or size of any fall-back disk around the magnetar. We also compare the detection limits with observations of other magnetars.
AB - We report broadband Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the field of soft γ-ray repeater SGR 0418+5729 with Advanced Camera for Surveys/Wide Field Channel and Wide Field Camera 3/IR. Observing in two wide filters, F606W and F110W, we find no counterpart within the positional error circle derived from Chandra observations, to limiting magnitudes m F606W > 28.6 and m F110W > 27.4 (Vega system), equivalent to reddening-corrected luminosity limits L F606W < 5 × 1028 and L F110W < 6 × 1028ergs-1 for a distance d = 2kpc, at 3σ confidence. This, in turn, imposes lower limits on the contemporaneous X-ray/optical flux ratio of ≃1100 and the X-ray/near-infrared flux ratio of ≃1000. We derive an upper limit on the temperature and/or size of any fall-back disk around the magnetar. We also compare the detection limits with observations of other magnetars.
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U2 - 10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/77
DO - 10.1088/0004-637X/742/2/77
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81255209223
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 742
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 77
ER -