In case it is interesting to some I found this interesting presentation on soft Soft Gamma Repeaters and Magnetars. http://www2011.mpe.mpg.de/363-heraeus-seminar/Contributions/3Wednesday/morning/KHurley.pdf
I appreciate that we are talking about very strong magnetic fields and rather specific conditions in neutron stars here but their may be some insights lurking in the data. I did find the spectra of the rather broad and familiar looking spectra from the soft gamma sources interesting but that might be pure coincidence of course. Im curious where that broad spectra comes from. If it is a bremsstrahlung origin, a relativistic effect or some other cause. here is another interesting link giving a good background: http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html And here is another very recent but possibly related article very bright X-ray sources that might or might not actually be related somehow. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Avoiding_traffic_jam_creates_impossibly_bright_lighthouse_999.html Stephen > From: stephen_coo...@hotmail.com > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 13:53:43 +0200 > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: [Vo]:Co59 Beta decay rates on Magnetar surface > > I wonder if the following linked recent paper can be interesting to some here > especially Axil and Eric? > > http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-016-2830-0 > > It's concerning changes in beta decay rates in the presence of magnetic > fields on magnetars. > > I have so far only read the abstract but I think it could be interesting. > > Stephen
