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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

Magnetar flares are highly energetic and rare events in which intense X and {\gamma}-ray emission is released from strongly magnetised neutron stars. The events are also accompanied by mass ejection from the neutron star. Fast radio bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos

Young neutron stars born with magnetic fields $B\gtrsim 10^{16}$ G become hyperactive as the field inside the star evolves through ambipolar diffusion on a timescale $\sim 10^9$ s. We simulate this process numerically and find that it can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Ashley Bransgrove , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Yuri Levin

Sudden relaxation of the magnetic field in the core of a magnetar produces mechanical energy primarily in the form of shear waves which propagate to the surface and enter the magnetosphere as relativistic Alfv\'en waves. Due to a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bennett Link

Three times of supergiant flares from soft $\gamma$-ray repeatres are observed, with typical released energy of $\sim 10^{44-47}$ erg. A conventional model (i.e., the magnetar model) for such events is catastrophic magnetism-powered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. X. Xu , D. J. Tao , Y. Yang

Magnetars are neutron stars with superstrong magnetic fields which can exceed 1e15 G. Some magnetars (the so-called soft gamma-repeaters) demonstrate occasionally very powerful processes of energy release, which result in exceptionally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 D. G. Yakovlev

We study dynamics of relativistic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), from launching by shearing of foot-points (either slowly - the ``Solar flare'' paradigm, or suddenly - the ``star quake" paradigm), to propagation in the preceding magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Praveen Sharma , Maxim Barkov , Maxim Lyutikov

We propose a physical mechanism to explain giant flares and radio afterglows in terms of a magnetospheric model containing both a helically twisted flux rope and a current sheet (CS). With the appearance of CS, we solve a mixed boundary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Lei Huang , Cong Yu

Magnetars younger than one century are expected to be hyper active. Besides winds powered by rotation they generate frequent magnetic flares, which launch powerful blast waves into the wind. These internal shocks act as masers producing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We present a theoretical model describing magnetar giant flares on the basis of solar flare/coronal mass ejection theory. In our model, a preflare activity plays a crucial role in driving evaporating flows and supplying baryonic matters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Youhei Masada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Kazunari Shibata , Toshio Terasawa

Giant $\gamma$-ray flares comprise the most extreme radiation events observed from magnetars. Developing on (sub)millisecond timescales and generating vast amounts of energy within a fraction of a second, the initial phase of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Chris Elenbaas , Anna L. Watts , Roberto Turolla , Jeremy Heyl

The SN explosion in the closed binary can give the magnetospheric flare possessing the properties of GRB. The SN shock, flowing around the magnetosphere of a magnetized neutron star or a white dwarf, produces a narrow magnetic tail 10^9 cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ya. N. Istomin , B. V. Komberg

We develop a model for the radio afterglow of the giant flare of SGR 1806-20 arising due to the interaction of magnetically-dominated cloud, an analogue of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), with the interstellar medium (ISM). The CME is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Riddhi Mehta , Maxim Barkov , Maxim Lyutikov

Magnetars are slowly-rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields that rarely produce extremely bright, energetic giant flares. Magnetar Giant Flares (MGFs) begin with a short (200 ms) intense flash, followed by fainter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 O. J. Roberts , E. Burns , A. Goldstein , C. M. Hui

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

We present one possible mechanism for the giant flares of the Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs) within the framework of magnetar, i.e., superstrongly magnetized neutron star model, motivated by the positive period increase associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kunihito Ioka

We model the interaction between the wind from a newly formed rapidly rotating magnetar and the surrounding progenitor. In the first few seconds after core collapse the magnetar inflates a bubble of plasma and magnetic fields behind the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

We advance a "Solar flare" model of magnetar activity, whereas a slow evolution of the magnetic field in the upper crust, driven by electron MHD (EMHD) flows, twists the external magnetic flux tubes, producing persistent emission, bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Maxim Lyutikov

Many explosive astrophysical events, like magnetars' bursts and flares, are magnetically driven. We consider dynamics of such magnetic explosions - relativistic expansion of highly magnetized and highly magnetically over-pressurized clouds.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Maxim V. Barkov , Praveen Sharma , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Maxim Lyutikov

We model the interaction between the wind from a newly formed rapidly rotating magnetar and the surrounding supernova shock and host star. The dynamics is modeled using the two-dimensional, axisymmetric thin-shell equations. In the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson
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