http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/spinning-magnetar/5511086/ Breaking science news from around the world Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/spinning-magnetar/5511086/comment-page-1/#comment-1316 How Much Do Black Holes Eat? « Space « Science Today Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:34:05 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/?p=11086#comment-1316 [...] They hit the jackpot once they discovered a pulsar near the galactic center. Not only do these rare stars act as precise cosmic clocks, but this one in particular emits an abnormally strong magnetic field (called a magnetar). [...]

]]> http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/spinning-magnetar/5511086/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 Fast Radio Burst Mystery « Space « Science Today Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:50:59 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/?p=11086#comment-1255 [...] come from events involving relativistic objects—maybe even from a type of neutron star called a magnetar. “Magnetars can give off more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 300,000 years and are [...]

]]> http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/spinning-magnetar/5511086/comment-page-1/#comment-1186 Patrick Das Gupta Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:29:00 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/?p=11086#comment-1186 Is it possible that the anti-glitch is due to a large plasma blob from the vicinity of the magnetar suddenly getting anchored to the magnetar’s huge magnetic field  (within its light cylinder), and thereby increasing its moment of inertia, and hence causing the angular speed to drop? Of course, the blob of matter eventually is accreted on to the surface, spreading itself thin.

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