The game of life on a magnetar crust: From gamma-ray flares to FRBs

Lander, Sam K. (2023) The game of life on a magnetar crust: From gamma-ray flares to FRBs. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 947 (1). ISSN 2041-8205

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Abstract

This Letter presents a model to unify the diverse range of magnetar activity, through the building and release of elastic stress from the crust. A cellular automaton drives both local and global yielding of the crust, leading to braiding of coronal loops and energy release. The model behaves like a real magnetar in many ways: giant flares and small bursts both occur, as well as periods of quiescence whose typical duration is either ≲1 yr or ∼10-30 yr. The burst energy distribution broadly follows an earthquake-like power law over the energy range 10 40-10 45 erg. The local nature of coronal loops allows for the possibility of high-energy and fast radio bursts from the same magnetar. Within this paradigm, magnetar observations can be used to constrain the poorly understood mechanical properties of the neutron-star crust.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	astronomy and astrophysics,space and planetary science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3103
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Physics (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Quantum Matter Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Numerical Simulation, Statistics & Data Science
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2023 10:30
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 12:46
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91886
DOI:	10.3847/2041-8213/acca1f

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