Comparative study of the initial spikes of soft gamma-ray repeater giant flares in 1998 and 2004 observed with Geotail: Do magnetospheric instabilities trigger large-scale fracturing of a magnetar's crust?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 665, Issue 1 PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Tanaka, Y T ^a   Terasawa, T ^b   Kawai, N ^b   Yoshida, A ^c   Yoshikawa, I ^a   Saito, Y ^d   Takashima, T ^d   Mukai, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: observations; Stars: magnetic fields; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548313998     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521025     Document Type: Article

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