[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
00:00 Intro
01:58 GRB 211211A
09:37 How can you get a magnetar
12:30 Searching for magnetars
16:28 Findings from GRB 211211A
24:01 What happens next
28:29 Off-axis Gamma-Ray Bursts
39:03 Current obsessions
43:18 Final thoughts
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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
00:00 Intro
01:58 GRB 211211A
09:37 How can you get a magnetar
12:30 Searching for magnetars
16:28 Findings from GRB 211211A
24:01 What happens next
28:29 Off-axis Gamma-Ray Bursts
39:03 Current obsessions
43:18 Final thoughts
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