An unusual burst from soft gamma repeater SGR 1900 + 14: Comparisons with giant flares and implications for the magnetar model

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 558, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 237-252

  Ibrahim, Alaa I ^a,b   Strohmayer, Tod E ^a   Woods, Peter M ^c,d   Kouveliotou, Chryssa ^c,d   Thompson, Christopher ^e   Duncan, Robert C ^f   Dieters, Stefan ^g   Swank, Jean H ^a   Van Paradijs, Jan ^g,h   Finger, Mark ^c,d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: Bursts; Stars: Magnetic fields; Stars: Neutron; X rays: Bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035457268     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322248     Document Type: Review

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