Magnetars

VM Kaspi, AM Beloborodov - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Magnetars are young and highly magnetized neutron stars that display a wide array of X-ray
activity including short bursts, large outbursts, giant flares, and quasi-periodic oscillations …

Magnetars: the physics behind observations. A review

R Turolla, S Zane, AL Watts - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the present universe and the combination of
extreme magnetic field, gravity and density makes them unique laboratories to probe current …

Pulsar glitches: observations and physical interpretation

D Antonopoulou, B Haskell… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The interpretation of pulsar rotational glitches, the sudden increase in spin frequency of
neutron stars, is a half-century-old challenge. The common view is that glitches are driven by …

Evidence for an abundant old population of Galactic ultra-long period magnetars and implications for fast radio bursts

P Beniamini, Z Wadiasingh, J Hare… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Two recent discoveries, namely PSR J0901− 4046 and GLEAM-X J162759. 5− 523504.3
(hereafter GLEAM-X J1627), have corroborated an extant population of radio-loud periodic …

Repeating fast radio bursts from magnetars with low magnetospheric twist

Z Wadiasingh, A Timokhin - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the statistics of pulse arrival times in fast radio burst(FRB) 121102 and
demonstrate that they are remarkably similar to statistics of magnetar high-energy short …

Magnetic, thermal and rotational evolution of isolated neutron stars

JA Pons, D Viganò - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2019 - Springer
The strong magnetic field of neutron stars is intimately coupled to the observed temperature
and spectral properties, as well as to the observed timing properties (distribution of spin …

Observational diversity of magnetized neutron stars

T Enoto, S Kisaka, S Shibata - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Young and rotation-powered neutron stars (NSs) are commonly observed as rapidly-
spinning pulsars. They dissipate their rotational energy by emitting pulsar wind with …

Beyond the rotational deathline: radio emission from ultra-long period magnetars

AJ Cooper, Z Wadiasingh - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivated by the recent detection of ultralong-period radio transients, we investigate new
models of coherent radio emission via low-altitude electron–positron pair production in …

The fast radio burst luminosity function and death line in the low-twist magnetar model

Z Wadiasingh, P Beniamini, A Timokhin… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore the burst energy distribution of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the low-twist magnetar
model of Wadiasingh & Timokhin (WT19). Motivated by the power-law fluence distributions …

Magnetic field evolution in magnetar crusts through three-dimensional simulations

KN Gourgouliatos, TS Wood… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Current models of magnetars require extremely strong magnetic fields to explain their
observed quiescent and bursting emission, implying that the field strength within the star's …