Properties of the population of millisecond extragalactic radio bursts discovered by Thornton et al. (2013) are in good correspondence with the hypothesis that such events are related to hyperflares of magnetars, as was proposed by us after the first observation of an extragalactic millisecond radio burst by Lorimer et al. (2007). We also point that some of multiple millisecond radio bursts from M31 discovered by Rubio-Herrera et al. (2013) also can be related to weaker magnetar bursts.
@article{arxiv.1307.4924,
title = {Millisecond extragalactic radio bursts as magnetar flares},
author = {S. B. Popov and K. A. Postnov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4924},
year = {2013}
}
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