{"id":104560,"date":"2020-03-31T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/study-determines-burst-properties-of-the-most-recurring-transient-magnetar"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:05:57","slug":"study-determines-burst-properties-of-the-most-recurring-transient-magnetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/study-determines-burst-properties-of-the-most-recurring-transient-magnetar","title":{"rendered":"Study determines burst properties of the most recurring transient magnetar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-determines-burst-properties-of-the-most-recurring-transient-magnetar2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi and Swift spacecraft, astronomers have investigated SGR J1935+2154, the most recurring transient magnetar known to date. The new research sheds more light on the burst properties of this object. The study is detailed in a paper published March 23 on the arXiv pre-print repository.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetars are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a> with extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/strong+magnetic+fields\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">strong magnetic fields<\/a>, more than 1 quadrillion times stronger than the magnetic field of Earth. Decay of magnetic fields in magnetars powers the emission of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, for instance, in the form of X-rays or radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered in 2014, SGR J1935+2154 has a spin period of 3.24 seconds, spin-down rate of 14.3 picoseconds\/second, and a dipole-magnetic field with a strength at a level of approximately 220 trillion G, what confirms its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetar<\/a> nature. Since its detection, the source experienced more than 100 bursts, occurring almost annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi and Swift spacecraft, astronomers have investigated SGR J1935+2154, the most recurring transient magnetar known to date. The new research sheds more light on the burst properties of this object. The study is detailed in a paper published March 23 on the arXiv pre-print repository. Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104600,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104560\/revisions\/104600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}