Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 7-1-2004

Publication Title

The Astrophysical Journal

Volume

609

Issue

1

Publisher

The American Astronomical Society

Abstract

We report the results of a deep near-infrared survey with the Very Large Telescope/Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera of the environment of the supernova remnant N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which contains the soft gamma repeater SGR 0526-66. Two of the four confirmed SGRs are potentially associated with compact stellar clusters. We thus searched for a similar association of SGR 0526-66 and imaged a young stellar cluster at a projected distance of ∼30 pc from the SGR. This constitutes the third cluster–SGR link and lends support to scenarios in which SGR progenitors originate in young dusty clusters. If confirmed, the cluster-SGR association constrains the age and thus the initial mass of SGR progenitors

Comments

Published version can be found here: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/609/1/L13

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