Repeated injections of energy in the first 600 ms of the giant flare of SGR 1806-20

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7037, 2005, Pages 1110-1111

  Terasawa, Toshio ^a   Tanaka, Yasuyuki T ^a   Takei, Yasuhiro ^a   Kawal, Nobuyuki ^b   Yoshida, Atsumasa ^c   Nomoto, Ken'ichi ^a   Yoshikawa, Ichiro ^a,d   Saito, Yoshifumi ^d   Kasaba, Yasumasa ^d   Takashima, Takeshi ^d   Mukai, Toshifumi ^d   Noda, Hirotomo ^e   Murakami, Toshio ^f   Watanabe, Kyoko ^g   Muraki, Yasushi ^g   Yokoyama, Takaaki ^a   Hoshino, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

DIPOLE FIELDS; OSCILLATORY MODULATIONS; SOFT Γ-RAY REPEATERS (SGR); TIME RESOLUTION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DIPOLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR;

EID: 20844437934     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03573     Document Type: Article

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