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Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a se...

Title: The 2008 May burst activation of SGR 1627-41 Authors: P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, S. Zane, F. Senziani, R. L. C. Starling, N. Rea, D. M. Palmer, N. Gehrels, A. Tiengo, A. De Luca, D. Götz, S. Mereghetti, P. Romano, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, L. Stella, R. Turolla, M. Feroci, V. Mangano In May 200...

S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin on behalf of the Konus-RF team, report: The first short burst from the newly discovered SGR 0418+5729 (van der Horst et al., GCN 9499) triggered Konus-RF gamma-ray spectrometer on-board the CORONA...

On November 3rd, 2005, no fewer than six spacecraft detected a powerful burst of gamma rays coming from the constellation Ursa Major in the general direction of the two galaxies M81 and M82. Both galaxies are about 12 million light-years away. The Swift, HETE-2, RHESSI, Mars Odyssey spacecraf...

An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst...

Title: VLT/NACO near-infrared observations of the transient radio magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 Authors: R. P. Mignani, N. Rea, V. Testa, G.L. Israel, G. Marconi, S. Mereghetti, P. Jonker, R. Turolla, R. Perna, S. Zane, G. Lo Curto, S. Chaty Despite about a decade of observations, very little is known a...

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Soft Gamma Repeater SGR J1550-5418 (Preview)	Cosmology News	1	1345	Feb 11 20:05 2009 by Blobrana
Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from a rare type of neutron star known as a soft-gamma-ray repeater. Such objects unpredictably send out a se...
Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1627-41 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	4	1811	Aug 8 22:05 2012 by Blobrana
Title: The 2008 May burst activation of SGR 1627-41 Authors: P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, S. Zane, F. Senziani, R. L. C. Starling, N. Rea, D. M. Palmer, N. Gehrels, A. Tiengo, A. De Luca, D. Götz, S. Mereghetti, P. Romano, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, L. Stella, R. Turolla, M. Feroci, V. Mangano In May 200...
Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0418+5729 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	6	2491	Aug 23 20:13 2013 by Blobrana
S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin on behalf of the Konus-RF team, report: The first short burst from the newly discovered SGR 0418+5729 (van der Horst et al., GCN 9499) triggered Konus-RF gamma-ray spectrometer on-board the CORONA...
Magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater Giant magnetar flare (Preview)	Cosmology News	8	12098	Jul 28 19:38 2015 by Blobrana
On November 3rd, 2005, no fewer than six spacecraft detected a powerful burst of gamma rays coming from the constellation Ursa Major in the general direction of the two galaxies M81 and M82. Both galaxies are about 12 million light-years away. The Swift, HETE-2, RHESSI, Mars Odyssey spacecraf...
Magnetar Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0501+4516 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	4	3348	Jun 14 01:10 2010 by Blobrana
An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst...
Soft Gamma Repeater 1E 1547.0-5408 (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	2	2065	Jan 28 07:33 2012 by Blobrana
Title: VLT/NACO near-infrared observations of the transient radio magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 Authors: R. P. Mignani, N. Rea, V. Testa, G.L. Israel, G. Marconi, S. Mereghetti, P. Jonker, R. Turolla, R. Perna, S. Zane, G. Lo Curto, S. Chaty Despite about a decade of observations, very little is known a...