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17 Yr of Magnetar Bursts Observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
Matt Godwin, Özge Keskin, Mustafa Demirer +17
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has been in operation for over 17 years, during which it has observed more than a thousand bursts from soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), also kno…
Detailed Timing, Spectral, and Polarimetric Analysis of Magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910
Rachael Stewart, George Younes, Alice Harding +5
We present a broadband timing, spectral, and polarimetric study of the magnetar 1RXS~J170849.0-400910 using XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and IXPE. The pulse morphology evolves strongly acro…
Pulsed Infrared Emission from Magnetar 4U 0142+61 Detected by JWST
Jeremy Hare, George G. Pavlov, Bettina Posselt +3
We report on a JWST observation of the magnetar 4U 0142+61 on 2024 August 18 with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). NIRCam observed the magnetar for 33~min in timing mode, providi…
Magnetar Fireballs and Short Bursts: Curved Spacetime Lensing, QED Effects, Spectra, Polarization, and Impulse Responses
Zorawar Wadiasingh, Hoa Dinh Thi, Constantinos Kalapotharakos +12
Magnetar short bursts (SBs) are hard X-ray transients of durations s peaking at keV, and are prime targets for new high-energy missions and polarimeters. The…
Transient narrowband radio bursts from the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408
Marcus E. Lower, Paul Scholz, Fernando Camilo +5
Radio-loud magnetars are well known for exhibiting radiative behaviors that are seldom seen among the wider pulsar population. Yet one form of emission that remains elusive among p…
Pulsed, Polarized X-ray Emission from Neutron Star Surfaces: the Effects of Vacuum Birefringence in the Magnetosphere
Hoa Dinh Thi, Matthew G. Baring, Kun Hu +4
Intense magnetic fields in the atmospheres of neutron stars render non-trivial angular dependence of intensity and polarization of soft X-ray emission originating from their surfac…
NICER Magnetar Burst Catalog
Che-Yen Chu, Chin-Ping Hu, Teruaki Enoto +13
In this paper, we present a comprehensive catalog of short bursts from magnetars based on eight years of NICER observations. A total of 1130 bursts were identified from 14 sources,…
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book
Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395
The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…
Fast X-ray Transient Detection with AXIS: application to Magnetar Giant Flares
Michela Negro, Zorawar Wadiasingh, George Younes +6
Magnetar giant flares (MGFs) are among the most luminous high-energy transients in the local universe, consisting of a short, intense MeV gamma-ray spike followed by a softer, puls…
Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar
Rachael E. Stewart, Hoa Dinh Thi, George Younes +13
Magnetars are isolated neutron stars with exceptionally strong surface fields exceeding G. Their bright X-ray emission probes physical regimes in which quantum electrodyn…
A coherent radio burst from an X-ray neutron star in the Carina Nebula
K. M. Rajwade, J. Tian, G. Younes +10
The neutron star zoo comprises several sub-populations that range from energetic magnetars and thermally emitting X-ray neutron stars to radio-emitting pulsars. Despite studies ove…
Rapid Spectral Evolution of SGR 1935+2154 During its 2022 Outburst
Chin-Ping Hu, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Wynn C. G. Ho +9
During the 2022 outburst of SGR 1935+2154, a Fast-Radio-Burst-like event (FRB 20221014A) and X-ray activities occurred between two spin-up glitches, suggesting these glitches may c…
The Galactic population of magnetars : a simulation-based inference study
Mattéo Sautron, Alexander Eli McEwen, George Younes +3
Population synthesis modeling of the observed dynamical and physical properties of a population is a highly effective method for constraining the underlying birth parameters and ev…
Timing and Spectral Evolution of the Magnetar 1E 1841-045 in Outburst
G. Younes, S. K. Lander, M. G. Baring +19
We present the timing and spectral analyses of the NICER, NuSTAR, and IXPE observations of the magnetar 1E 1841-045 covering 82 days following its August 2024 bursting activity as…
Detection of X-ray Emission from a Bright Long-Period Radio Transient
Ziteng Wang, Nanda Rea, Tong Bao +46
Recently, a class of long-period radio transients (LPTs) has been discovered, exhibiting emission on timescales thousands of times longer than radio pulsars. Several models had bee…
Pulsed and Polarized X-ray Emission from Neutron Star Surfaces
Matthew G. Baring, Hoa Dinh Thi, George A. Younes +1
The intense magnetic fields of neutron stars naturally lead to strong anisotropy and polarization of radiation emanating from their surfaces, both being sensitive to the hot spot p…
Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flares: Population Implications, Rates and Prospects for Gamma-Rays, Gravitational Waves and Neutrinos
Paz Beniamini, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Aaron Trigg +5
Magnetar Giant Flares (MGFs) are the most energetic non-catastrophic transients known to originate from stellar objects. The first discovered events were nearby. In recent years, s…
The role of magnetar transient activity in time-domain and multimessenger astronomy
Michela Negro, George Younes, Zorawar Wadiasingh +3
Time-domain and multimessenger astronomy (TDAMM) involves the study of transient and time-variable phenomena across various wavelengths and messengers. The Astro2020 Decadal Survey…
GRB 180128A: A Second Magnetar Giant Flare Candidate from the Sculptor Galaxy
Aaron C. Trigg, Eric Burns, Oliver J. Roberts +14
Magnetars are slowly rotating neutron stars that possess the strongest magnetic fields () known in the cosmos. They display a range of transient high-en…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Studying Extreme Accretion with Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
Matteo Bachetti, Matthew J. Middleton, Ciro Pinto +25
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) represent an extreme class of accreting compact objects: from the identification of some of the accretors as neutron stars to the detection of po…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and nuclear astrophysics
Stephen Reynolds, Hongjun An, Moaz Abdelmaguid +29
HEX-P is a probe-class mission concept that will combine high spatial resolution X-ray imaging ( full width at half maximum) and broad spectral coverage (0.2--80 keV) with an…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Sensitive broadband X-ray observations of transient phenomena in the 2030s
Murray Brightman, Raffaella Margutti, Ava Polzin +13
HEX-P will launch at a time when the sky is being routinely scanned for transient gravitational wave, electromagnetic and neutrino phenomena that will require the capabilities of a…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Galactic PeVatrons, star clusters, superbubbles, microquasar jets, and gamma-ray binaries
Kaya Mori, Stephen Reynolds, Hongjun An +32
HEX-P is a probe-class mission concept that will combine high spatial resolution X-ray imaging (<10" FWHM) and broad spectral coverage (0.2-80 keV) with an effective area far super…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Magnetars and Other Isolated Neutron Stars
J. A. J. Alford, G. A. Younes, Z. Wadiasingh +23
The hard X-ray emission from magnetars and other isolated neutron stars remains under-explored. An instrument with higher sensitivity to hard X-rays is critical to understanding th…