Solar physics of magnetars

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Apr 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aps..apr.x3003l&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 22-26, 2006, abstract #X3.003

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Two closely related types of neutron stars -- Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma Ray Repeaters, commonly called magnetars -- posses magnetic field exceeding quantum critical fields. Dissipation of these fields powers persistent and bursting emission and produces occasionally giant flares. Using analogies with the Sun, I will describe magnetospheric structure of magnetars, the way magnetic dissipation can proceed in the relativistically strong regime and how giant flares, analogues of coronal mass ejections, may develop. Finally, I will discuss how the observed non-thermal spectra can be formed through resonant cyclotron scattering of surfaces radiation.

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