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A magnetar by another name

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Is a rotating neutron star powered by rotational energy loss or by magnetic-field decay? The answer seems to be yes.

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Figure 1: An X-ray image of the supernova remnant G29. 7–0.3 (also known as Kes 75).

NASA/CXC/ S. KUMAR AND S. SAFI–HARB

Figure 2: The measured rotation period (P) and period derivative () for 1,511 neutron stars.

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  1. Fernando Camilo is at the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027, USA. fernando@astro.columbia.edu,

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