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For the first time, a group of international researchersThis was a brutal moment in time indeed, as in less than a tenth of a second, the magnetar expelled energy equivalent to that created by the sun in 100,000 years!distinguished by an extremely powerful magnetic field.
For the past two decades, scientists have been wondering whether magnetars have high-frequency oscillations.
"The explosion of the magnetar, which lasted approximately a 10th of a second, was discovered on April 15, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic," explained co-author Víctor Reglero, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the UV, in a press release. The eruption was detected by the Atmosphere Space Interactions Monitor instrument, which is currently on the International Space Station , and Reglero is one of its architects.
This analysis has allowed researchers to estimate that the volume of the eruption was comparable to, if not bigger than, the volume of the neutron star itself. "Even in an inactive state, magnetars can be 100,000 times more luminous than our sun, but in the case of the flash that we have studied—GRB2001415—the energy that was released is equivalent to that which our sun radiates in 100,000 years," explained lead researcher Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, from the IAA-CSIC.
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