Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars
Magnetars are young neutron stars with very strong magnetic fields of the order of 1014-1015G. They are detected in our Galaxy either as soft γ-ray repeaters or anomalous X-ray pulsars. Soft γ-ray repeaters are a rare type of γ-ray transient sources that are occasionally detected as bursters in the high-energy sky. No optical counterpart to the γ
Castro-Tirado, A. J. et al.
Fecha de publicación:
9
2008