Magnetars

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:06110007,
            doi = {10.48660/06110007},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/06110007},
            author = {Kaspi, Victoria},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = { Magnetars},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2006},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:06110007 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/06110007}}
          }
          

Abstract

The nature of an unusual class of cosmic X-ray source, dubbed "Anomalous X-ray Pulsars," was a mystery since 1982 when the first example was discovered. In this talk, I will show the recent observational evidence that unambiguously links them with another equally exotic class of object, the explosive "Soft Gamma Repeaters." The evidence todate strongly supports the picture that both are "magnetars:" isolated young neutron stars having surface magnetic fields ~1000 times greater than those in conventional neutron stars.