Long-term project observations for project P885 semester 2025OCTS_01

Created 25/10/2025

Updated 25/10/2025

We propose a modest program to continue monitoring 4 of the 6 known radio magnetars in order to achieve three primary science goals. The first is to characterise magnetar outbursts over long timescales, for which tracking their rotational, flux density, and polarisation properties provide a clear view of the impulse response of their magnetic fields. Second, understanding the links between magnetars the mysterious fast radio burst phenomenon through the discovery of rare emission and propagation effects, shared spectro-temporal phenomenology, and connections to high-energy (X-ray/gamma-ray) phenomena. Lastly, our continued monitoring has enormous benefit to the wider magnetar community, providing rapid alerts to changes in activity, adding context to unusual behaviour detected by high-energy observations, and a host of supplementary science through the teams extensive collaborative networks. The project and its precursors have been running since 2007 and have contributed to 21 publications since then. We are seeking to convert the project to long-term status, thereby also carrying these investigations into the SKA era.

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Title Long-term project observations for project P885 semester 2025OCTS_01
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a758ea26-0c34-582f-8859-3392fc437d4a
Contact Point
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Reference Period 01/01/2000
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal CSIRO DAP

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