The 4.5 +/- 0.5 Soft Gamma Repeaters in Review

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3 December 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9912061

Abstract

Four Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) have now been identified with certainty, and a fifth has possibly been detected. I will review their X-ray and gamma-ray properties in both outburst and quiescence. The magnetar model accounts fairly well for the observations of SGR1806-20 and SGR1900+14, but data are still lacking for SGR1627-41 and SGR0525-66. The locations of the SGRs with respect to their supernova remnants suggest that they are high velocity objects.

Keywords

SOFT GAMMA REPEATERS
VELOCITY OBJECTS
REMNANTS SUGGEST
ACCOUNTS FAIRLY
MAGNETAR MODEL
REVIEW FOUR
FOUR SOFT
SGRS

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