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[Interview+] How Magnetars Are Born
· 45 min
Episode [Interview+] How Magnetars Are Born
Magnetars are a special sauce of neutron stars. They are extremely violent with crazy magnetic fields. But how are they created? Do kilonova neutron star collisions produce them? What do we really know about that? Finding out in this interview.
Watch the video here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Q3JGdARjzTA
BONUS PART STARTS AT 28:29
🟣 Guest: Dr. Genevieve Schroeder https://astro.cornell.edu/genevieve-schroeder https://sites.northwestern.edu/genevieveschroeder/ https://bsky.app/profile/genevieveschroeder.bsky.social
📜 No Sign of a Magnetar Remnant Following the Kilonova-Producing Long GRB 211211A ∼1.7 Years Later https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09744
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00:00 Intro
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01:58 GRB 211211A
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09:37 How can you get a magnetar
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12:30 Searching for magnetars
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16:28 Findings from GRB 211211A
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24:01 What happens next
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28:29 Off-axis Gamma-Ray Bursts
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39:03 Current obsessions
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43:18 Final thoughts
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