Magnetar giant flares and afterglows as relativistic magnetized explosions

Lyutikov, Maxim, Magnetar giant flares and afterglows as relativistic magnetized explosions, MNRAS, 367, 1594-1602 (2006) (ADS)

The cartoon

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No, this is not a CME - the dead giveaway is the neutron star lurking at the left edge of the cartoon. Instead it is a "Magnetar Giant Flare", as represented in the Duncan-Thompson cartoon in full color. But the CME analogy is definitely at work; it is just that this ejection is "pair-loaded" and highly relativistic. The magnetic field intensity in a star such as this is incomprehensibly large.

Date: 2019 December 06