Probing the birth of fast rotating magnetars through high-energy neutrinos
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Kohta Murase, Peter Mészáros, and Bing Zhang Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Department of Physics; Center for Particle Astrophysics; Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA (Received 7 January 2009; published 1 May 2009)
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