Discovery of a new soft gamma repeater: SGR J0418 + 5729

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 711, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Van Der Horst, A J ^a   Connaughton, V ^b   Kouveliotou, C ^a   Gogu E ^c   Kaneko, Y ^c   Wachter, S ^d   Briggs, M S ^b   Granot, J ^e   Ramirez Ruiz, E ^f   Woods, P M ^g   Aptekar, R L ^h   Barthelmy, S D ⁱ   Cummings, J R ⁱ   Finger, M H ^j   Frederiks, D D ^h   Gehrels, N ⁱ   Gelino, C R ^k   Gelino, D M ^k   Golenetskii, S ^h   Hurley, K ^l   Krimm, H A ⁱ   Mazets, E P ^h   McEnery, J E ⁱ   Meegan, C A ^j   Oleynik, P P ^h   Palmer, D M ^m   Pal'Shin, V D ^h   Pe'Er, A ⁿ   Svinkin, D ^h   Ulanov, M V ^h   Van Der Klis, M ^o   Von Kienlin, A ^p   Watts, A L ^o   Wilson Hodge, C A ^a   more..

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g DYNETICS INC   (United States)

^h IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^j NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ STScI   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^p MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Stars: neutron; X ray: bursts

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EID: 77949573189     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/711/1/L1     Document Type: Article

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