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There is growing evidence that soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are isolated neutron stars with superstrong magnetic fields, i.e., magnetars, marking them a distinguished species from the conventional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bing Zhang

Many gamma-ray bursts are followed by periods of extended emission. At least in some cases, the burst afterglow may be powered by a rapidly rotating, highly-magnetised neutron star, which spins down due to electromagnetic and gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars which display a wide array of X-ray activity including short bursts, large outbursts, giant flares and quasi-periodic oscillations, often coupled with interesting timing behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Victoria M. Kaspi , Andrei Beloborodov

Magnetars are young, rotating neutron stars that possess larger magnetic fields ($B$ $\approx$ $10^{13}$-$10^{15}$ G) and longer rotational periods ($P$ $\approx$ 1-12 s) than ordinary pulsars. In contrast to rotation-powered pulsars,…

Magnetars are neutron stars in which a strong magnetic field is the main energy source. About two dozens of magnetars, plus several candidates, are currently known in our Galaxy and in the Magellanic Clouds. They appear as highly variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Sandro Mereghetti , Jose' Pons , Andrew Melatos

We analyse the most powerful X-ray outbursts from neutron stars in ten Magellanic high-mass X-ray binaries and three pulsating ultraluminous X-ray sources. Most of the outbursts rise to $L_{max}$ which is about the level of the Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 D. M. Christodoulou , S. G. T. Laycock , D. Kazanas

Short gamma-ray bursts that are followed by long-duration X-ray plateaus may be powered by the birth, and hydrodynamic evolution, of magnetars from compact binary coalescence events. If the rotation and magnetic axes of the system are not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-09 Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

The mechanism by which the radiation received from obliquely rotating neutron stars is generated remains an open question half a century after the discovery of pulsars. In contrast, considerable progress has recently been made in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-02 Houshang Ardavan

Magnetars are a kind of pulsars powered mainly by superhigh magnetic fields. They are popular sources with many unsolved issues in themselves, but also linked to various high energy phenomena, such as QPOs, giant flares, fast radio bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Zhi-Fu Gao , Hao Shan , Hui Wang

Assuming the wind-fed accretion magnetars in long period X-ray pulsars, we calculated the rotational evolution of the neutron stars. Our calculations considered the effects of the magnetic field decay in magnetars. The results show that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Wei Wang , Hao Tong

Magnetars are proposed to be peculiar neutron stars powered by their super strong magnetic field. Observationally, anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters are believed to be magnetar candidates. While more and more multiwave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 H. Tong , R. X. Xu

Estimations of magnetic fields of neutron stars, observed as radio and X-ray pulsars, are discussed. It is shown, that theoretical and observational values for different types of radiopulsars are in good correspondence. Magnetic fields of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Dependences of the X-ray luminosity (L$_x$) of single pulsars, due to ejection of relativistic particles, on electric field intensity, rate of rotational energy loss (\.{E}), magnetic field, period, and the energy spectra of the ejected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. H. Guseinov , A. Ankay , S. O. Tagieva , M. O. Taskin

Results of the mathematical treatment of the radiation by the superluminally moving current sheet in the magnetosphere of a neutron star, which was presented in Ardavan (2021, {\it MNRAS}, {\bf 507}, 4530), are explained here in more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-01 Houshang Ardavan

The accretion flow within the magnetospheric radius of bright X-ray pulsars can form an optically thick envelope, concealing the central neutron star from the distant observer. Most photons are emitted at the surface of a neutron star and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-13 Caitlyn Flexer , Alexander A. Mushtukov

The emission of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs) is believed to be powered by the dissipation of their strong magnetic fields, which coined the name `magnetar'. By combining timing and energy observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Guojun Qiao , Lunhua Shang , Renxin Xu , Kejia Lee , Yongquan Xue , Qijun Zhi , Jiguang Lu , Juntao Bai

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic fields. Many attributes of magnetars remain poorly understood: spin-down glitches or the…

Strong magnetic field of accreting neutron stars ($10^{14}$ G) is hard to probe by X-ray spectroscopy but can be indirectly inferred from spin-up/spin-down measurement in X-ray pulsars. The existing observations of slowly rotating X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 K. A. Postnov , N. I. Shakura , A. Yu. Kochetkova , L. Hjalmarsdotter

A fraction of high-mass X-ray binaries are supergiant fast X-ray transients. These systems have on average low X-ray luminosities, but display short flares during which their X-ray luminosity rises by a few orders of magnitude. The leading…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Swetlana Hubrig , Lara Sidoli , Konstantin A. Postnov , Markus Schöller , Alexander F. Kholtygin , Silva P. Jarvinen

Estimates of the magnetic field of neutron stars in X-ray pulsars are obtained using the hypothesis of the equilibrium period for disk and wind accretion and also from the BATSE data on timing of X-ray pulsars using the observed maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Lipunov , S. B. Popov