Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Together Forever

Details Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Together Forever Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Together Forever

2004-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402175v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 2 figures. To appear in "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments" (IAU Symposium 218, ASP Conference Proceedings),

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I review of the observational properties of Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs), two unusual manifestations of neutron stars. I summarize the reasoning for SGRs being "magnetars," neutron stars powered by the decay of a very large magnetic field, and the now compelling evidence that SGRs and AXPs are in fact members of the same source class, as predicted uniquely by the magnetar model. I discuss some open issues in the magnetar model, and the prospects for future work.

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