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