Artist's conception of a magnetar, with magnetic field linesArtist's conception of a powerful magnetar in a star cluster
A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (~109 to 1011 T, ~1013 to 1015 G).[1] The magnetic-field decay powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma rays.[2]
The existence of magnetars was proposed in 1992 by Robert Duncan and Christopher Thompson.[3] Their proposal sought to explain the properties of transient sources of gamma rays, now known as soft gamma repeaters (SGRs).[4][5] Over the following decade, the magnetar hypothesis became widely accepted, and was extended to explain anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). As of July 2021[update], 24 magnetars have been confirmed.[6]
It has been suggested that magnetars are the source of fast radio bursts (FRB), in particular as a result of findings in 2020 by scientists using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope.[7]
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