Is magnetar a fact or fiction to us?
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-11 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
The key point of studying AXPs/SGRs (anomalous X-ray pulsars/soft gamma-ray repeaters) is relevant to the energy budget. Historically, rotation was thought to be the only free energy of pulsar until the discovery of accretion power in X-ray binaries. AXPs/SGRs could be magnetars if they are magnetism-powered, but would alternatively be quark-star/fallback-disk systems if more and more observations would hardly be understood in the magnetar scenario.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.4680,
title = {Is magnetar a fact or fiction to us?},
author = {H. Tong and R. X. Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4680},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Proceedings of IAUS 291 "Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years", J. van Leeuwen (ed.); 3 pages, 1 figure