Discovery of cyclotron resonance features in the soft gamma repeater SGR 180620

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 574, Issue 1, 2002, Pages L51-L55

  Ibrahim, Alaa I ^a,b   Safi Harb, Samar ^c   Swank, Jean H ^a   Parke, William ^b   Zane, Silvia ^d   Turolla, Roberto ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Stars: individual (SGR 180620); Stars: magnetic fields; Stars: neutron; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033797536     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342367     Document Type: Article

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