About this science case

Magnetars are highly magnetized, young neutron stars that display a wide range of radiative activity such as bursts, outbursts and giant flares. The latter, in particular, detectable within a few tens of mega-parsec, could be the first known source of repeating extragalactic GRBs. The very recent observations of a magnetar giant flare from the Sculptor galaxy and a Galactic magnetar flare in coincidence to a fast radio burst, have deepened the interest in these objects. Studies of a greater population will provide a better understanding of these events, of magnetars themselves, and their progenitors.