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Soft Gamma Repeaters

Soft Gamma Repeater is a type of high-energy astrophysical source characterized by recurrent bursts of low-energy gamma rays, distinguishing it from other gamma-ray transients through its repeated emission episodes and association with highly magnetized neutron stars.

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396

The Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar Catalogue

R. N. Manchester, G. Hobbs, A. Teoh et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2005 · 3.4K citations · Full text

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The soft gamma repeaters as very strongly magnetized neutron stars - I. Radiative mechanism for outbursts

Christopher Thompson, Robert C. Duncan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1995 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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The Soft Gamma Repeaters as Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars. II. Quiescent Neutrino, X‐Ray, and Alfven Wave Emission

Christopher Thompson, Robert C. Duncan · The Astrophysical Journal · 1996 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806 − 20

C. Kouveliotou, S. Dieters, Tod E. Strohmayer et al. · Nature · 1998 · 1K citations

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Magnetars

V. M. Kaspi, Andrei M. Beloborodov · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2017 · 921 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. CK
    C. Kouveliotou

    Marshall Space Flight Center, United States

    34 publications · 3.7K citations

    28

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  2. KH
    K. Hurley

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    33 publications · 3.6K citations

    27

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  3. SZ
    Silvia Zane

    University College London, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 1.6K citations

    20

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  4. RT
    R. Turolla

    University of Padua, Italy

    21 publications · 1.6K citations

    20

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  5. PW
    Peter Woods

    Universities Space Research Association, United States

    19 publications · 1.9K citations

    18

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Institutions

491

  1. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    38 h-index

    92 publications

    10.3K citations

  2. Marshall Space Flight Center

    Redstone Arsenal, United States

    34 h-index

    119 publications

    13.5K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    32 h-index

    68 publications

    5.8K citations

  4. Universities Space Research Association

    Columbia, United States

    32 h-index

    65 publications

    7.5K citations

  5. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    31 h-index

    58 publications

    4K citations

  6. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    28 h-index

    40 publications

    2.7K citations

  7. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    50 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    25 h-index

    315 publications

    30.6K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 134 publications · 11.1K citations

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  2. 35

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    24 publications · 1.1K citations

    20

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    15 publications · 1.2K citations

    13

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