Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters

The following is a collection of recent information on Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs) as distributed mainly over the GCN.

SGR 1900+14

GRB 970912/SGR 1814-13 the fourth Soft Gamma Repeater?

SGR 1627-41 the fifth Soft Gamma Repeater?

SGR1801-23

The discovery of the superstrong magnetic field in SGR 1806-20 is described in more popular style in this NASA Space Science News page. Details on the Magnetar model can be found on R. Duncan's home page.
Some recent literature:

• astro-ph/9807216 Vlasov: The 5 March 1979 soft gamma-ray repeater: a fresh outlook
• astro-ph/9807306 Heyl & Kulkarni: How Common Are Magnetars? The Consequences of Magnetic-Field Decay
• astro-ph/9808005 Fargion: GRBs and SGRs as precessing gamma jets
• astro-ph/9810449 Huang etal: Fireball/Blastwave Model and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters
• astro-ph/9811388 Hurley etal: ASCA Discovery of an X-ray Pulsar in the Error Box of SGR1900+14
• astro-ph/9811411 Hurley etal: Reactivation and Precise IPN Localization of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR1900+14
• astro-ph/9811443 Hurley etal: A giant, periodic flare from the soft gamma repeater SGR1900+14
• astro-ph/9812457 Frail etal: A Relativistic Particle Outburst From The Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater SGR 1900+14 (Nature)
• astro-ph/9902096 Feroci etal: A Giant Outburst from SGR 1900+14 Observed with the BeppoSAX GRB Monitor
• astro-ph/9902292 Unusual Burst Emission from the New Soft Gamma Repeater SGR1627-41 ApJ 519 (1999) L151
• astro-ph/9903156 Smith etal: RXTE All-Sky Monitor Localization of SGR 1627-41 ApJ 519 (1999) L147
• astro-ph/9903267 Woods etal: Discovery of a New Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1627-41 ApJ 519 (1999) L139
• astro-ph/9903268 Hurley etal: Precise Interplanetary Network Localization of a New Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1627-41 ApJ 519 (1999) L143
• ApJ 512 (1999) L113 Palmer: SGR 1806-20 Is a Set of Independent Relaxation Systems
• astro-ph/9906020 Hurley etal: Where is SGR1806-20?
• astro-ph/9909054 Cline etal: Observations of a possible new soft gamma repeater, SGR1801-23 ApJ 531 (2000) 407: > ">ApJ 531 (2000) 407
• astro-ph/9910237 Fuchs etal: ISO observations of the environment of the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1806-20
• astro-ph/9912228 Alpar: Isolated thermal neutron stars, SGRs and AXPs: propellers and early accretors with conventional magnetic fields?
• astro-ph/9912237 Rothschild etal: Magnetic Field Limits on SGRs