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The detection of a short hard X-ray burst and an associated bright soft X-ray source by the Swift satellite in 2020 October heralded a new magnetar in outburst, SGR J1830-0645. Pulsations at a period of ~10.4 s were detected in prompt…

X-ray observations play a crucial role in understanding the emission mechanism and relevant physical phenomena of magnetars. We report X-ray observations of a young magnetar SGR 1900+14 made in 2016, which is famous for a giant flare in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Tsubasa Tamba , Aya Bamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Teruaki Enoto

We have discovered four X-ray bursts, recorded with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Proportional Counter Array between 2003 September and 2004 April, that we show to originate from the transient magnetar candidate XTE J1810-197. The burst…

Magnetars are highly magnetized neutron stars that are characterized by recurrent emission of short-duration bursts in soft gamma-rays/hard X-rays. Recently, FRB 200428 were found to be associated with an X-ray burst from a Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 G. Q. Zhang , Zuo-Lin Tu , F. Y. Wang

We report the radio and high-energy properties of a new outburst from the radio-loud magnetar 1E 1547.0$-$5408. Following the detection of a short burst from the source with Swift-BAT on 2022 April 7, observations by NICER detected an…

We report here on the outburst onset and evolution of the new Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0501+4516. We monitored the new SGR with XMM-Newton starting on 2008 August 23, one day after the source became burst-active, and continuing with 4 more…

A bright burst, followed by an X-ray tail lasting ~10 ks, was detected during an XMM-Newton observation of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 carried out on 2009 February 3. The burst, also observed by SWIFT/BAT, had a spectrum well fit by the sum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Fabio Pintore , Sandro Mereghetti , Andrea Tiengo , Giacomo Vianello , Elisa Costantini , Paolo Esposito

Magnetars are neutron stars having extreme magnetic field strengths. Study of their emission properties in quiescent state can help understand effects of a strong magnetic field on neutron stars. SGR 0501+4516 is a magnetar that was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Y. -L. Mong , C. -Y. Ng

We present deep Hubble Space Telescope observations of a new magnetar source, the soft gamma-repeater SGR 1935+2154, discovered by Swift. We obtained three epochs of observations: while the source was active in March 2015, during a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Andrew J. Levan , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Andrew S. Fruchter

We present temporal and time-resolved spectral analyses of all the thermonuclear X-ray bursts observed from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 1728-34 with NICER from June 2017 to September 2019. In total, we detected 11 X-ray…

Neutron stars with very strong magnetic fields are known as magnetars. There are multiple theories that predict magnetars may be able to emit high-energy (HE) neutrinos through hadronic processes by accelerating cosmic rays to high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Ava Ghadimi , Marcos Santander

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond radio transients observed at cosmological distances. The nature of their progenitors is still a matter of debate, although magnetars are invoked by most models. The proposed FRB-magnetar connection…

We report on simultaneous NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar 1E 1048.1$-$5937 obtained in July 2013, along with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data for the same source obtained from December 2002 through March 2012. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 C. Yang , R. F. Archibald , J. K. Vogel , H. An , V. M. Kaspi , S. Guillot , A. M. Beloborodov , M. Pivovaroff

In this study, we explore the dynamical stability of magnetar bursts within the context of the chaos-randomness phase space for the first time, aiming to uncover unique behaviors compared to various astrophysical transients, including fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-04 Shotaro Yamasaki , Ersin Gogus , Tetsuya Hashimoto

In this catalog, we present the results of a systematic study of 199 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Konus-Wind between 2011 January 1 and 2021 August 31. The catalog extends the Second Catalog of short gamma-ray bursts covering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Alexandra L. Lysenko , Dmitry S. Svinkin , Dmitry D. Frederiks , Anna V. Ridnaia , Anastasia E. Tsvetkova , Mikhail V. Ulanov

Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely high magnetic fields that exhibit various X-ray phenomena such as sporadic sub-second bursts, long-term persistent flux enhancements, and variable rates of rotation period change. In 2020, a fast…

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

FRB180301 is one of the most actively repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) which has shown polarization angle changes in its radio burst emission, an indication for their likely origin in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetized neutron star.…

Magnetar short bursts (SBs) are hard X-ray transients of durations $0.01-1$ s peaking at $\sim 10-100$ keV, and are prime targets for new high-energy missions and polarimeters. The recent association of SBs with bright radio bursts in SGR…