An X-ray burst from a magnetar enlightening the mechanism of fast radio bursts

May 25, 2020
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  • Nature Astron. 5 (2021) 4, 401-407
  • Published: Feb 18, 2021
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Abstract: (Springer)
In April 2020, the AGILE satellite registered an X-ray burst temporally coincident with a radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154. As seen in hard X-rays, the burst was cut off above 80 keV and had an isotropically emitted energy of about 1040^{40} erg.
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  • Submitted to Nature Astronomy, May 18, 2020