Browsing by Author "Wachter, S."

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    • Discovery of a new soft gamma repeater: SGR J0418+5729 

      van der Horst, A.J.; Connaughton, V.; Kouveliotou, C.; Gogus, E.; Kaneko, Y.; Wachter, S.; Briggs, M.S.; Granot, J. (2010)
      On 2009 June 5, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope triggered on two short and relatively dim bursts with spectral properties similar to soft gamma repeater (SGR) bursts. Independent ...

    • Magnetar twists: Fermi/Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor detection of SGR J1550-5418 

      Kaneko, Y.; Gogus, E.; Kouveliotou, C.; Granot, J.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; van der Horst, A.J.; Watts, A.L.; Finger, M.H.; Gehrels, N.; Pe'er, A.; van der Klis, M.; von Kienlin, A.; Wachter, S.; Wilson-Hodge, C.A.; Woods, P.M. (2010)
      SGR J1550-5418 (previously known as AXP 1E 1547.0-5408 or PSR J1550-5418) went into three active bursting episodes in 2008 October and in 2009 January and March, emitting hundreds of typical soft gamma repeater bursts in ...