Astrophysics of Magnetars: Theory

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...203.7502d&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #75.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.1322

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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I will give an overview of the physics of Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs)and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) which are believed to be ultra-magnetized neutron stars, or ``magnetars." This will include: the formation of magnetars via alpha-Omega dynamos in rapidly-rotating, newborn neutron stars; interior magnetic evolution of these stars; triggering mechanisms for bursts and giant flares; the cooling and evaporation of ``trapped fireballs" (magnetically-confined pair-photon plasmas) and the physics of outbursts; spindown evolution and glitches; and future prospects for magnetar astrophysics, including the detection of extragalactic magnetar flares.

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