no code implementations • 26 Jan 2021 • Victor Doroshenko, Andrea Santangelo, Sergey Tsygankov, Long Ji
The soft gamma-ray repeater candidate SGR 0755$-$2933 was discovered in 2016 by Swift/BAT, which detected a short ($\sim$30 ms) powerful burst typical of magnetars.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Sergey S. Tsygankov, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Sergey V. Molkov, Anlaug A. Djupvik, Dmitri I. Karasev, Victor Doroshenko, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Christian Malacaria, Peter Kretschmar, Juri Poutanen
Accurate X-ray localization of the source using the NuSTAR and Chandra observatories allowed us to accurately determine the position of the X-ray source and identify the optical companion of the pulsar.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena