Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Magnetar Candidates
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v3
Abstract
This article is a review of Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars. It contains a brief historical record of the emergence of these classes of neutron stars, a thorough overview of the observational data, a succinct summary of the magnetar model, and suggested directions for future research in this field.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406133,
title = {Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Magnetar Candidates},
author = {P. M. Woods and C. Thompson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406133},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
51 pages, 15 figures, and 5 tables. To appear in "Compact Stellar X-ray Sources", eds. W.H.G. Lewin and M. van der Klis