Recent results on magnetars

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2009-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4880v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

8 pages, to be published in the proceedings of "44th Rencontres de Moriond", La Thuile (Val d'Aosta, Italy) on "Very High Ener

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Several observations obtained in the last few years indicate that Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) are basically a single class of isolated neutron stars. Their properties are well explained by the magnetar model, based on neutron stars powered by magnetic fields as high as 10^14 -10^15 G. Here I report some recent results obtained for the transient Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1627-41, that started a new outburst after about 10 years from the previous one, and for the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408. The latter source recently showed a remarkable bursting activity, that reinforces the similarity between AXPs and SGRs.

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