The 4.5 +/- 0.5 soft gamma repeaters in review
Dec, 1999Part of Gamma-ray bursts. Proceedings, 5th Huntsville Symposium, Huntsville, USA, October 18-22, 1999, 763
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Four Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) have now been identified with certainty, and a fifth has possibly been detected. I will review their X-ray and gamma-ray properties in both outburst and quiescence. The magnetar model accounts fairly well for the observations of SGR1806−20 and SGR1900+14, but data are still lacking for SGR1627−41 and SGR0525−66. The locations of the SGRs with respect to their supernova remnants suggest that they are high-velocity objects.- gamma-ray sources (astronomical)
- Galaxy
- supernova remnants
- neutron stars
- magnetisation
- X-ray sources (astronomical)
- interstellar matter
- bremsstrahlung
- solar flares
- afterglows
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