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Three decades of magnetars
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Kouveliotou, C. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | Magnetars are magnetically powered rotating neutron stars with extreme magnetic fields (over 10^14 Gauss). They were discovered in the X- and gamma-rays where they predominantly emit their radiation. Very few sources (roughly 24) have been found since their discovery in 1987. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched June 11, 2009; since then the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) recorded emission from several magnetar sources. In total, six new sources were discovered between 2008 and 2011, with a synergy between Swift, RXTE, Fermi and the Interplanetary Network (IPN). In my talk I will give a short history of magnetars and describe how this, once relatively esoteric field, has emerged as a link between several astrophysical areas including Gamma-Ray Bursts. Finally, I will describe the exciting new results of Fermi and Chandra in this field and the current status of our knowledge of the magnetar population properties and magnetic fields. |
| File Size | 39087 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120015795 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9t200q38 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-08-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Neutron Stars Spaceborne Telescopes Magnetars X Ray Timing Explorer Magnetic Fields X Ray Astrophysics Facility Gamma Ray Bursts Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Presentation |
