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Christopher Thompson
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 34
Citations - 3884
Christopher Thompson is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetar & Soft gamma repeater. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 34 publications receiving 3754 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher Thompson include University of Toronto.
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The Soft Gamma Repeaters as Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars. II. Quiescent Neutrino, X-Ray, and Alfvén Wave Emission
TL;DR: In this article, the decay rate of the core field is a very strong function of temperature and therefore of the magnetic flux density, which is not present in the decay of the weaker fields associated with ordinary radio pulsars.
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Discovery of a Magnetar Associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14
Chryssa Kouveliotou,Chryssa Kouveliotou,Tod E. Strohmayer,Kevin Hurley,J. van Paradijs,J. van Paradijs,Mark H. Finger,Mark H. Finger,S. Dieters,Peter M. Woods,Christopher Thompson,Robert C. Duncan +11 more
TL;DR: The soft gamma repeater SGR 1900+14 became active again in 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.
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Discovery of a magnetar associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14
Chryssa Kouveliotou,Tod E. Strohmayer,Kevin Hurley,Jan van Paradijs,Mark H. Finger,S. Dieters,Peter M. Woods,Christopher Thompson,Robert Duncan +8 more
TL;DR: 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.
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Magnetohydrodynamics in the extreme relativistic limit
Christopher Thompson,Omer Blaes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two new formulations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the limit where the inertia of the charge carriers can be neglected are presented, and the effects of compressibility on nonlinear interactions between MHD waves are analyzed.
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The Giant Flare of 1998 August 27 from SGR 1900+14. I. An Interpretive Study of BeppoSAX and Ulysses Observations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a joint analysis of the BeppoSAX and Ulysses data and discuss some implications of these results for the SGRs, and also present newly analyzed Venera/SIGNE and ISEE-3 data on the 1979 March 5 giant flare from an SGR in the Large Magellanic Cloud (SGR 0526-66) and compare them with the August 27 event.