Discovery of a Magnetar Associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14
Discovery of a Magnetar Associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14
The soft-gamma repeater SGR 1900+14 became active again on June 1998 after a long period of quiescence; it remained at a low state of activity until August 1998, when it emitted a series of extraordinarily intense outbursts. We have observed the source with RXTE twice, during the onset of each …