Flares from a candidate Galactic magnetar suggest a missing link to dim isolated neutron stars

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7212, 2008, Pages 506-509

  Castro Tirado, A J ^a   De Ugarte Postigo, A ^a,b   Gorosabel, J ^a   Jelinek M ^a   Fatkhullin, T A ^c   Sokolov, V V ^c   Ferrero, P ^d   Kann, D A ^d   Klose, S ^d   Sluse, D ^e   Bremer, M ^f   Winters, J M ^f   Nuernberger, D ^b   Perez Ramirez D ^g,h   Guerrero, M A ^a   French, J ⁱ   Melady, G ⁱ   Hanlon, L ⁱ   McBreen, B ⁱ   Leventis, K ^j   Markoff, S B ^j   Leon, S ^k   Kraus, A ^l   Aceituno, F J ^a   Cunniffe, R ^a,m   Kubanek P ^a,n   Vitek S ^a   Schulze, S ^d   Wilson, A C ^o   Hudec, R ^p   Durant, M ^q   Gonzalez Perez J M ^q   Shahbaz, T ^q   Guziy, S ^r   Pandey, S B ^s   Pavlenko, L ^t   Sonbas, E ^c,u   Trushkin, S A ^c   Bursov, N N ^c   Nizhelskij, N A ^c   Sanchez Fernandez C ^v   Sabau Graziati, L ^w   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f IRAM   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k Institute de Radioastronomie Millimétrique IRAM Núcleo Central   (Spain)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^m Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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

^p INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^q INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^r Nikolaev National University   (Ukraine)

^s ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

^t CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Ukraine)

^u CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^v EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^w INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY; FIELD EMISSION; INFRARED RADIATION; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 52949122092     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07328     Document Type: Article

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