Magnetar emergence in a peculiar gamma-ray burst from a compact star merger
Magnetar emergence in a peculiar gamma-ray burst from a compact star merger
Abstract The central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful explosions in the universe, is still not identified. Besides hyper-accreting black holes, rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron stars, known as millisecond magnetars, have been suggested to power both long and short GRBs 1–7 . The presence of …