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The Environments of Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters: A Brief & Biased Review

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

I review some recent developments in our understanding of the environments of soft gamma-ray repeaters. I pay particular attention to the apparent association betwwen SGR 1900+14 and SGR 1806-20 and embedded clusters of stars.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0203054,
  title  = {The Environments of Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters: A Brief & Biased Review},
  author = {Stephen S. Eikenberry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0203054},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Invited review for the Woods Hole 2001 conference on GRBs/SGRs; 5 pages