Magnetar
A magnetar (a contraction of magnetic star) is a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field.
The extraordinary magnetar studied by Clark and Ritchie's team has a suitably extraordinary home - the ‘super star cluster' Westerlund 1, which contains hundreds of very massive stars 16, ...
First of all, nobody knows much about magnetars since there existence was only recently suggested and the observational evidence for them is even newer. As far as I know the most likely scenario for their formation is as the remnant from a supernova.
MAGNETAR - Also spelled "magnestar." Neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field (~1015 gauss). The magnetic field is between 100 and 1,000 times stronger than that of a radio pulsar, making them the most magnetic objects known.
Magnetar: A neutron star with a very strong magnetic field.
Magnetosphere: Region around a planet in which its magnetic field dominates the interplanetary field carried by the solar wind.
magnetar: A class of neutron stars that have exceedingly strong magnetic fields; thought to be responsible for soft gamma-ray repeaters.
MAGNETAR
A magnetar is a highly magnetic star. Magnetar have magnetic fields of about 1015 Gauss, about a thousand trillion times stronger than the Earth's.
Magnetars
8 x 1014 Gauss
MAGNETIC FIELD
A magnetic field is a region near a magnet where other magnets are affected. The is probably caused by its molten iron-nickel core.
Magnetar - a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field (1000 times more than a regular neutron star), and long rotation periods (5 to 12 seconds).
Soft gamma repeater
Anomalous X-ray pulsar
Binary pulsars ...
Magnetars and Quark stars are both extreme cases of neutron stars, though it appears that they are pretty rare at this point. There is some debate as to whether they actually exist; that perhaps the astronomers got their numbers wrong.
A magnetar is a superdense neutron star with a magnetic field thousands of trillions of times more intense than that of the Earth.
Rare Magnetar Discovered: Giant Eruption Reveals 'Dead' Star Science Daily - June 16, 2009
Giant Eruption Reveals 'Dead' Star Space Daily - June 18, 2009 ...
[6.4] MAGNETARS & SOFT GAMMA-RAY REPEATERS
[6.5] BLACK HOLES DISCOVERED?
[6.6] MINIHOLES ...
magnetars (NASA Thesaurus) Highly magnetized neutron stars believed to emit quasi-steady x-rays along with bursts of soft gamma rays-- emissions powered by their magnetic energy.
Infrared Echo of a Magnetar Burst?
9 Jun 2005 - The Spitzer Space Telescope observed very rapidly moving filaments outside the Cas A supernova remnant (Krause et al., 2005, Science, 308, 1604).
Krause speculates that the object may be a magnetar. (Krause, et al., 2005)
*ρ Cas is a yellow hypergiant, one of the largest known stars. Its size is approximately 738 times larger than our Sun.
Notable deep sky objects ...
Magnetars are a new and exciting class of objects believed to be pulsars with extreme magnetic fields, a thousand times stronger than those of "ordinary" pulsars.
Gamma Ray Bursts - In terms of gamma rays, a Magnetar (a type of neutron star) called SGR 1806-20, had an extreme burst on 27 December 2004.
In terms of gamma rays, a magnetar (type of neutron star) called SGR 1806-20, had an extreme burst reach Earth on 27 December 2004.
27 December--- powerful gamma ray burst arrives, apparently from a "magnetar" in our own galaxy.
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Author and Curator: Dr. David P. Stern
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A soft gamma repeater is an astronomy object which emits large bursts of gamma-rays and X-rays at irregular intervals. It is conjectured that they are a type of magnetar or,...
As the gas collects on the surface, it becomes hot and emits X-rays. In the second model, which is now strongly supported by observation, AXPs are assumed to be magnetars - neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields.
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