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Pulsars crash the magnetar party

The discovery of a youthful neutron star with an extreme magnetic field blurs the once clear divide between magnetars and pulsars.

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Figure 1: The distribution of magnetic field strengths and spin periods for ordinary radio pulsars (white dots) and magnetars (blue circles).

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Cordes, J. Pulsars crash the magnetar party. Nature 409, 297–299 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35053259

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