Magnetars
Open Access
- 11 May 1999
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 96 (10) , 5351-5352
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.10.5351
Abstract
Recent x-ray observations have shown that a substantial fraction of newly born neutron stars have magnetic fields of several 1014 G. They reveal themselves as soft gamma repeaters and anomalous x-ray pulsars and may account for the missing radio pulsars in young supernova remnants.Keywords
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