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We present statistics of SGR 1806-20 bursts, combining 290 events detected with RXTE/PCA, 111 events detected with BATSE and 134 events detected with ICE. We find that the fluence distribution of bursts observed with each instrument are…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sufficiently energetic to be detectable from luminosity distances up to at least seven billion parsecs (redshift $z > 1$). Probing the maximum energies and luminosities of FRBs constrains their emission…

Magnetars comprise two classes of rotating neutron stars (Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars), whose X-ray emission is powered by an ultrastrong magnetic field, B ~ 10^15 G. Occasionally SGRs enter into active episodes…

We report on radio observations of four magnetars SGR 0501+4516, Swift 1834.9-0846, 1E 1841-045, SGR 1900+14 and a magnetar-like pulsar PSR J1846-0258 with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) at 1250 MHz.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Juntao Bai , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Shuangqiang Wang , Jianping Yuan , Wenming Yan , Lunhua Shang , Xin Xu , Shijun Dang , Zhen Zhang

Recent observations indicate that magnetars may commonly reside in merging compact binaries and at least part of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sourced by magnetar activities. It is natural to speculate that a class of merging neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang , Kent Yagi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short pulses observed in radio frequencies usually originating from cosmological distances. The discovery of FRB 200428 and its X-ray counterpart from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 suggests that at least…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Mingyu Ge , Yuan-Pei Yang , Fangjun Lu , Shiqi Zhou , Long Ji , Shuangnan Zhang , Bing Zhang , Liang Zhang , Pei Wang , Kejia Lee , Weiwei Zhu , Jian Li , Xian Hou , Qiao-Chu Li

Magnetars are the leading candidate sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs). However, the observational probes of the connections between magnetars and FRBs are severely limited by the paucity of detection of highly energetic radio events from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Banshi Lal , Yogesh Maan , Moaz Abdelmaguid , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Joseph D. Gelfand , Samayra Straal

It is proposed that sources of repeating fast radio bursts with detected periodicity are magnetars with extremely short initial spin periods at the protoneutron star stage, formed in binaries after tidal synchronization of their progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 S. B. Popov

We report on NICER observations of the Magnetar SGR~1935+2154, covering its 2020 burst storm and long-term persistent emission evolution up to $\sim90$ days post outburst. During the first 1120~seconds taken on April 28 00:40:58 UTC we…

Magnetars, the likely sources of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), produce both steady highly relativistic magnetized winds, and occasional ejection events. We demonstrate that the requirement of conservation of the magnetic flux dominates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Maxim Lyutikov

Giant flares on soft gamma-ray repeaters that are thought to take place on magnetars release enormous energy in a short time interval. Their power can be explained by catastrophic instabilities occurring in the magnetic field configuration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. Meng , J. Lin , L. Zhang , K. K. Reeves , Q. S. Zhang , F. Yuan

We present the first Suzaku observation of the new Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0501+4516, performed on 2008 August 26, four days after the onset of bursting activity of this new member of the magnetar family. The soft X-ray persistent emission…

Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are highly magnetised neutron stars (magnetars) notable for their gamma-ray and X-ray outbursts. In this paper, we use near-infrared (NIR) imaging of SGR 0501+4516 in the days, weeks, and years after its 2008…

We report on the intense burst ``forest'' recorded on 2006 March 29 which lasted for ~30s. More than 40 bursts were detected both by BAT and by XRT, seven of which are rare intermediate flares (IFs): several times 10^{42} ergs were…

Magnetar is a neutron star with an ultrahigh magnetic field ($\sim 10^{14}-10^{15}$ G). The magnetar SGR J1935+2154 is not only one of the most active magnetars detected so far, but also the unique confirmed source of fast radio bursts…

We present results on the Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) 0501+4516, discovered by the SWIFT Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on 2008 August 22. More than 50 bursts were identified from this source, out of which 18 bursts had enough counts to carry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Harsha S. Kumar , Alaa. I. Ibrahim , Samar Safi-Harb

Soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are generally accepted to be magnetars. Recently, Zhang, Xu & Qiao (2000, ApJ, 545, L127) proposed an alternative viewpoint about the nature of the SGRs (and AXPs). In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Zhang

We collect 133 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), including 110 non-repeating and 23 repeating ones, and systematically investigate their observational properties. To check the frequency dependence of FRB classifications, we define our samples with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 X. J. Li , X. F. Dong , Z. B. Zhang , D. Li

Popular Fast Radio Burst models involve rotating magnetized neutron stars, yet no rotational periodicities have been found. Small datasets exclude exact periodicity in FRB 121102. Recent observations of over 1500 bursts from each of FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 J. I. Katz

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic, bright pulses of emission at radio frequency with milliseconds duration. Observationally, FRBs can be divided into two classes, repeating FRBs and non-repeating FRBs. At present, twenty repeating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 G. Q. Zhang , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang