A QED model for the origin of bursts from soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 618, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 463-473

  Heyl, Jeremy S ^a,b   Hernquist, Lars ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elementary particles; Gamma rays: theory; Pulsars: general; X rays: bursts; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 13944250310     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425974     Document Type: Article

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