1. Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars
- Author
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Castro-Tirado, A.J., de Ugarte Postigol, A., Gorosabel, J., Jelinek, M., Fatkhullin, T.A., Sokolov, V.V., Ferrero, P., Kann, D.A., Klose, S., Sluse, D., Bremer, M., Winters, J.M., Nuernberger, D., Perez-Ramirez, D., Guerrero, M.A., French, J., Melady, G., Hanlon, L., McBreen, B., Leventis, K., Markoff, S.B., Leon, S., Kraus, A., Aceituno, F.J., Cunniffe, R., Kubanek, P., Vitek, S., Schulze, S., Wilson, A.C., Hudec, R., Durant, M., Gonzalez-Perez, J.M., Shahbaz, T., Guziy, S., Pandey, S.B., Pavlenko, L., Sonbas, E., Trushkin, S.A., Bursov, N.N., Nizhelskij, N.A., Sanchez-Fernandez, C., and Sabau-Graziati, L.
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Solar flares -- Observations -- Properties ,Neutron stars -- Observations -- Natural history -- Properties ,Stars -- Magnetic fields ,Environmental issues ,Science and technology ,Zoology and wildlife conservation ,Observations ,Properties ,Natural history - Abstract
Magnetars (1) are young neutron stars with very strong magnetic fields of the order of [10.sup.14]-[10.sup.15]G. They are detected in our Galaxy either as soft γ-ray repeaters or anomalous X-ray [...]
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- 2008