An anti-glitch in a magnetar

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7451, 2013, Pages 591-593

  Archibald, R F ^a   Kaspi, V M ^a   Ng, C Y ^a,b   Gourgouliatos, K N ^a   Tsang, D ^a   Scholz, P ^a   Beardmore, A P ^c   Gehrels, N ^d   Kennea, J A ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; RADIO WAVE; ROTATION; X-RAY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; GAMMA RADIATION; LUMINANCE; MAGNETAR; MAGNETIC FIELD; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY;

EID: 84878392174     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12159     Document Type: Article

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