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Title: Magnetic fields in neutron stars: from radio pulsars to magnetars

Speaker: Nanda Rea, Institute of Space Sciences, CSIC-IEEC, Barcelona,
Spain

Host: Raffaella Margutti

Abstract: I will review current observational and modelling results on neutron stars with strong magnetic fields (aka magnetars): in particular their outburst activity, their predicted evolution, birth and possible connection with GRBs and SLSNe. Furthermore, I will present new discoveries that strengthen somehow the relation between magnetars and other neutron star classes, and that argue on the ubiquitous presence of strong field non-dipolar component in possibly any young neutron star.

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics