A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

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Date de publication:
24 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 22 12 2023
accepted: 07 03 2024
medline: 25 4 2024
pubmed: 25 4 2024
entrez: 24 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Magnetar giant flares are rare explosive events releasing up to 10

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pubmed: 38658757
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07285-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07285-4
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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Sandro Mereghetti (S)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy. sandro.mereghetti@inaf.it.

Michela Rigoselli (M)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Ruben Salvaterra (R)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Dominik Patryk Pacholski (DP)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

James Craig Rodi (JC)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali di Roma, Rome, Italy.

Diego Gotz (D)

Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Edoardo Arrigoni (E)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.

Paolo D'Avanzo (P)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.

Christophe Adami (C)

Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France.

Angela Bazzano (A)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali di Roma, Rome, Italy.

Enrico Bozzo (E)

University of Geneva, Department of Astronomy, Versoix, Switzerland.
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy.

Riccardo Brivio (R)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.
Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.

Sergio Campana (S)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.

Enrico Cappellaro (E)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Jerome Chenevez (J)

DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.

Fiore De Luise (F)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy.

Lorenzo Ducci (L)

University of Geneva, Department of Astronomy, Versoix, Switzerland.
Institut fuer Astronomie und Astrophysik Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.

Paolo Esposito (P)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

Carlo Ferrigno (C)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.
University of Geneva, Department of Astronomy, Versoix, Switzerland.

Matteo Ferro (M)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.
Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy.

Gian Luca Israel (GL)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy.

Emeric Le Floc'h (E)

Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Antonio Martin-Carrillo (A)

School of Physics and Centre for Space Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.

Francesca Onori (F)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy.

Nanda Rea (N)

Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain.
Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Andrea Reguitti (A)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy.
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Volodymyr Savchenko (V)

University of Geneva, Department of Astronomy, Versoix, Switzerland.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Damya Souami (D)

LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France.

Leonardo Tartaglia (L)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy.

William Thuillot (W)

Institut de mecanique celeste et de calcul des ephemerides (IMCCE) UMR 8028 du CNRS - Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Paris, France.

Andrea Tiengo (A)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

Lina Tomasella (L)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Martin Topinka (M)

INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Selargius (CA), Italy.

Damien Turpin (D)

Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, AIM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Pietro Ubertini (P)

INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali di Roma, Rome, Italy.

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