Landing page for project EP133

Magnetars are a most extreme, distinguished class of neutron stars. These magnetically powered objects (magnetic fields in the range 10^13-10^15 G) exhibit episodic outbursts of activity at X-ray/gamma energies. So far only 6 of them are known to emit at radio bands. Here, we propose observations of XTE J1810-197, a magnetar that was recently found to be active during our observations conducted with the Torun radio telescope (especially at higher radio frequencies). We have detected numerous millisecond-duration bursts at L- and C-band, similar in properties to fast radio bursts or Crab-like giant pulses. New observations will allow us to study the connection between the XTE J1810-197 bursting activity and the continuum emission, and help to constrain the nature of the continuum emission detected by previous VLA observations. We ask for a total amount of 8 hrs of observing time at C-band (2 epochs, 4 hrs each). This proposal is a resubmission of EG132 and EP131.

This data is part of the archive of VLBI data maintained by JIVE on behalf of the EVN, a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa. The EVN archive itself has the DOI https://doi.org/10.17616/R3Z197