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Periodicity in recurrent fast radio bursts and the origin of ultra long period magnetars

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arxiv 2003.12509 v2 pith:RKTOUSH7 submitted 2020-03-27 astro-ph.HE

Paz Beniamini , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Brian D. Metzger This is my paper · ORCID
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The recurrent fast radio burst FRB 180916 was recently shown to exhibit a 16 day period (with possible aliasing) in its bursting activity. Given magnetars as widely considered FRB sources, this period has been attributed to precession of the magnetar spin axis or the orbit of a binary companion. Here, we make the simpler connection to a {\it rotational period}, an idea observationally motivated by the 6.7 hour period of the Galactic magnetar candidate, 1E 161348--5055. We explore three physical mechanisms that could lead to the creation of ultra long period magnetars: (i) enhanced spin-down due to episodic mass-loaded charged particle winds (e.g. as may accompany giant flares), (ii) angular momentum kicks from giant flares and (iii) fallback leading to long lasting accretion disks. We show that particle winds and fallback accretion can potentially lead to a sub-set of the magnetar population with ultra long periods, sufficiently long to accommodate FRB 180916 or 1E 161348--5055. If confirmed, such periods implicate magnetars in relatively mature states (ages $1-10$ kyr) and which possessed large internal magnetic fields at birth $B_{\rm int}\gtrsim 10^{16}$ G. In the low-twist magnetar model for FRBs, such long period magnetars may dominate FRB production for repeaters at lower isotropic-equivalent energies and broaden the energy distribution beyond that expected for a canonical population of magnetars which terminate their magnetic activity at shorter periods $P \lesssim 10$ s.

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