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- A magnetar is a type of neutron star, believed to possess an extremely powerful magnetic field and to be a candidate for causing many fast radio bursts.
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Jan 10, 2020 · While normal neutron stars themselves have incredibly strong magnetic fields (on the order of 10 12 Gauss, for those of you who like to keep track of these things), magnetars are many times more powerful. The most powerful ones can be upwards of a TRILLION Gauss!
May 14, 2014 · Magnetars are an unusual and very exotic form of neutron star. Like all of these strange objects they are tiny and extraordinarily dense — a teaspoon of neutron star material would have a mass of...
Jun 13, 2021 · A magnetar is an exotic type of neutron star, its defining feature that it has an ultra-powerful magnetic field. The field is about 1,000 times stronger than a normal neutron star and about a...
Apr 28, 2024 · Paul Scott Anderson. April 28, 2024. View larger. | Artist’s concept of a magnetar, a type of neutron star but with vastly more powerful magnetic fields. Scientists saw a giant magnetar eruption...
Mar 25, 2015 · Magnetars are neutron stars in which a strong magnetic field is the main energy source. About two dozens of magnetars, plus several candidates, are currently known in our Galaxy and in the Magellanic Clouds. They appear as highly variable X-ray sources and, in some cases, also as radio and/or optical pulsars.
- Sandro Mereghetti, José A. Pons, Andrew Melatos
- 2015
Magnetars are neutron stars with fields of approximately 1013 to 1015 Gauss (a measure of magnetic density). This is a scale of magnetic power that's hard to conceive, but let's just say that magnetars are considered to be the most powerful magnetic objects in the known universe.
A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (~10 9 to 10 11 T, ~10 13 to 10 15 G). The magnetic-field decay powers the emission of high- energy electromagnetic radiation , particularly X-rays and gamma rays .
