ASIM Detects Huge Pulsating Flare from Extragalactic Magnetar astronomy space science
An artist’s impression of a giant magnetar flare. Image credit: Universitat de València.gauss, luminosities of approximately 10ergs per second and rotation periods of about 0.3-12 seconds,” said Dr. Alberto Castro-Tirado, an astrophysicist with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and the Universidad de Málaga, and his colleagues.
“Even in an inactive state, magnetars can be one hundred thousand times more luminous than our Sun, but in the case of GRB 2001415, the energy that was released is equivalent to that which our Sun radiates in 100,000 years,” Dr. Castro-Tirado said. — which are well known in the Sun and which interact with each other, dissipating energy,” Dr. Castro-Tirado said.
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