AXP

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AXP (plural AXPs)

  1. (astronomy) Initialism of anomalous X-ray pulsar.
    • 2008, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193:
      The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).

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