Sentences with phrase «young magnetar»

This story is still just hypothetical, but astrophysicists point to a piece of supporting evidence: The FRBs are coming from the same vicinity as a steady source of radio emission — possibly the background signal from the expanding debris cloud that surrounds the young magnetar.

His best guess is that the repeater is a very young magnetar — probably less than 100 years old.

«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

Not exact matches

If the young - magnetar theory is correct, then — according to one possible version of the story — we have to envisage a newborn, superdense neutron star cloaked in a powerful and highly unstable magnetic field.

As the repeater narrowed down the options, Scholz took a stab at guessing the source: «Extragalactic magnetar» he wrote in his initial email, referring to a young neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.

«Several interpretations of the nature of this system have been proposed, from an isolated slowly spinning magnetar with a substantial fossil - disk, to a young low mass X-ray binary system, or even a binary magnetar, but none of them is straightforward, nor can they explain the overall observational properties,» researchers said in a study, published in the Sept. 2, 2016, issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.