Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-10-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Accepted by Science. First published on-line in ScienceXpress on 2010 October 14th: http://www.sciencexpress.org
Scientific paper
Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous x-ray pulsars form a rapidly increasing group of x-ray sources exhibiting sporadic emission of short bursts. They are believed to be magnetars, i.e. neutron stars powered by extreme magnetic fields, B~10^{14}-10^{15} Gauss. We report on a soft gamma repeater with low magnetic field, SGR 0418+5729, recently detected after it emitted bursts similar to those of magnetars. X-ray observations show that its dipolar magnetic field cannot be greater than 7.5x10^{12} Gauss, well in the range of ordinary radio pulsars, implying that a high surface dipolar magnetic field is not necessarily required for magnetar-like activity. The magnetar population may thus include objects with a wider range of B-field strengths, ages and evolutionary stages than observed so far.
Esposito Paolo
Gogus Ersin
Gotz Diego
Israel Gian Luca
Kouveliotou Chryssa
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