Discovery of cyclotron resonance features in the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 574, Issue 1 II, 2002, Pages

  Ibrahim, Alaa I ^a,b   Safi Harb, Samar ^c,f   Swank, Jean H ^a   Parke, William ^b   Zane, Silvia ^d   Turolla, Roberto ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Stars: individual (SGR 1806 20); Stars: magnetic fields; Stars: neutron; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002513468     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342366     Document Type: Article

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