Magnetars - Observations

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...203.7501k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #75.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.1322

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Magnetars are slowly spinning (P ˜ 5-11 s) neutron stars with extremely high magnetic fields, of the order of 1015 G. They were all discovered in soft gamma/hard X-rays, and, given the stringent observational requirements for the establishment of their nature, only a handful of magnetar sources are confirmed to date. These are all persistent X-ray sources exhibiting random outbursts of hundreds of short, soft bursts per episode. Three sources have been also detected in optical/infrared wavelengths. All but one lie in the Galactic plane and none is a confirmed member of a binary system. I will discuss here a brief history of their discovery and describe their observational properties.

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