In 2008 August , the new soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0501+4516 was discovered by Swift .
The source was soon confirmed by several groups in space- and ground-based multi-wavelength observations .
In this letter we report the analysis of five short bursts from the recently discovered SGR , detected with Konus-Wind gamma-ray burst spectrometer .
Properties of the time histories of the observed events , as well as results of multi-channel spectral analysis , both in the 20–300 keV energy range , show , that the source exhibits itself as a typical SGR .
The bursts durations are \lesssim 0.75 s and their spectra above 20 keV can be fitted by optically-thin thermal bremsstrahlung ( OTTB ) model with kT _ { OTTB } of 20–40 keV .
The spectral evolution is observed , which resembles the SGR 1627-41 bursts , where a strong hardness-intensity correlation was noticed in the earlier Konus-Wind observations .
The peak energy fluxes of all five events are comparable to highest those for known SGRs , so a less distant source is implied , consistent with the determined Galactic anti-center direction .
Supposing the young supernova remnant HB9 ( at the distance of 1.5 kpc ) as a natal environment of the source , the peak luminosities of the bursts are estimated to be ( 2–5 ) \times 10 ^ { 40 } erg s ^ { -1 } .
The values of the total energy release , given the same assumptions , amount to ( 0.6–6 ) \times 10 ^ { 39 } erg .
These estimations of both parameters are typical for short SGR bursts .