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==List of SGR== Known soft gamma repeaters include:<ref name=McGillCatalog>{{cite web| url=http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~pulsar/magnetar/main.html|title=McGill SGR/AXP Online Catalog}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Object !! Discovery !! Notes |- | [[SGR 0525β66]] ||1979 || |- | [[SGR 1806β20]] ||1979/1986 ||The most powerful soft gamma repeater burst yet recorded was observed coming from this object on December 27, 2004. |- | [[SGR 1900+14]] ||1979/1986 || 20,000 lyr away; powerful, affected the [[Earth's atmosphere]]. |- | [[SGR 1627β41]] ||1998 || |- | [[SGR J1550β5418]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090210-celestial-fireworks.html |title=Star Emits Intense Celestial Fireworks |date=10 February 2009 |publisher=[[Space.com]]}}</ref> || 2008 || Rotates once every 2.07 seconds, holds the record for the fastest-spinning [[magnetar]]. |- | [[SGR 0501+4516]]<ref name="esa16609">{{cite web|url=http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMLEDQORVF_index_0.html|title=Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star|date=16 June 2009|publisher=[[European Space Agency]]|access-date=28 December 2009}}</ref> ||2008 || 15,000 lyr away; X-ray outburst detected by [[Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission|Swift]] satellite 22 August 2008. |- | [[SGR J1745β2900]] || 2013 || A soft gamma repeater orbiting the [[black hole]] in [[Sagittarius A*]]. |- | [[SGR 1935+2154]] || 2014 || 30,000 lyr away; First ever detected [[fast radio burst]] inside the Milky Way, and the first ever to be linked to a known source. |} The numbers give the position in the sky, for example, SGR 0525-66 has a [[right ascension]] of 5h25m and a [[declination]] of −66Β°. The date of discovery sometimes appears in a format such as 1979/1986 to refer to the year the object was discovered, in addition to the year soft gamma repeaters were recognized as a separate class of objects rather than "normal" gamma-ray bursts.
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