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Is magnetar a fact or fiction to us?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

H. Tong  and
R. X. Xu
H. Tong
Affiliation:
Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, China; Email: tonghao@xao.ac.cn
R. X. Xu
Affiliation:
School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Email: r.x.xu@pku.edu.cn
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Abstract

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The key point of studying AXPs/SGRs (anomalous X-ray pulsars/soft gamma-ray repeaters) is relevant to the energy budget. Historically, rotation was thought to be the only free energy of pulsar until the discovery of accretion power in X-ray binaries. AXPs/SGRs could be magnetars if they are magnetism-powered, but would alternatively be quark-star/fallback-disk systems if more and more observations would hardly be understood in the magnetar scenario.

Keywords

pulsars: generalstars: magnetarsstars: neutron
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years , August 2012 , pp. 518 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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