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astro-ph2005
A Re-brightening of the Radio Nebula associated with the 2004 December 27 giant flare from SGR 1806--20
J. D. Gelfand, Y. E. Lyubarsky, D. Eichler +7
The 2004 Dec. 27 giant Gamma-ray flare detected from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 created an expanding radio nebula which we have monitored with the Australia Telescope Compact Array a…
astro-ph2005
An expanding radio nebula produced by a giant flare from the magnetar SGR 1806-20
B. M. Gaensler, C. Kouveliotou, J. D. Gelfand +16
Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are "magnetars", a small class of slowly spinning neutron stars with extreme surface magnetic fields, ~10^15 gauss. On 2004 December 27, a giant flare w…