Abstract:
:Magnetars are neutron stars with X-ray and soft γ-ray outbursts thought to be powered by intense internal magnetic fields. Like conventional neutron stars in the form of radio pulsars, magnetars exhibit 'glitches' during which angular momentum is believed to be transferred between the solid outer crust and the superfluid component of the inner crust. The several hundred observed glitches in radio pulsars and magnetars have involved a sudden spin-up (increase in the angular velocity) of the star, presumably because the interior superfluid was rotating faster than the crust. Here we report X-ray timing observations of the magnetar 1E 2259+586 (ref. 8), which exhibited a clear 'anti-glitch'--a sudden spin-down. We show that this event, like some previous magnetar spin-up glitches, was accompanied by multiple X-ray radiative changes and a significant spin-down rate change. Such behaviour is not predicted by models of neutron star spin-down and, if of internal origin, is suggestive of differential rotation in the magnetar, supporting the need for a rethinking of glitch theory for all neutron stars.
journal_name
Naturejournal_title
Natureauthors
Archibald RF,Kaspi VM,Ng CY,Gourgouliatos KN,Tsang D,Scholz P,Beardmore AP,Gehrels N,Kennea JAdoi
10.1038/nature12159subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-05-30 00:00:00pages
591-3issue
7451eissn
0028-0836issn
1476-4687pii
nature12159journal_volume
497pub_type
杂志文章相关文献
NATURE文献大全abstract::Saturn's largest moon, Titan, remains an enigma, explored only by remote sensing from Earth, and by the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft. The most puzzling aspects include the origin of the molecular nitrogen and methane in its atmosphere, and the mechanism(s) by which methane is maintained in the face of rapid destruct...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature04122
更新日期:2005-12-08 00:00:00
abstract::Ultrafast time-resolved optical spectroscopy has revealed new classes of physical, chemical and biological reactions, in which directed, deterministic motions of atoms have a key role. This contrasts with the random, diffusive motion of atoms across activation barriers that typically determines kinetic rates on slower...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/35065045
更新日期:2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The ultimate mechanism that cells use to ensure the quality of intracellular proteins is the selective destruction of misfolded or damaged polypeptides. In eukaryotic cells, the large ATP-dependent proteolytic machine, the 26S proteasome, prevents the accumulation of non-functional, potentially toxic proteins. This pr...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/nature02263
更新日期:2003-12-18 00:00:00
abstract::Classical endocrine studies have shown that steroid hormones are required for the maintenance of pregnancy and placental viability. The oestrogen-receptor-related receptor beta (ERR-beta) is an orphan member of the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors. Although ERR-beta is homologous to the oestrogen receptor and ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/42022
更新日期:1997-08-21 00:00:00
abstract::Haploids and double haploids are important resources for studying recessive traits and have large impacts on crop breeding, but natural haploids are rare in animals. Mammalian haploids are restricted to germline cells and are occasionally found in tumours with massive chromosome loss. Recent success in establishing ha...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature11435
更新日期:2012-10-18 00:00:00
abstract::More than twenty types of retinal ganglion cells conduct visual information from the eye to the rest of the brain. Each retinal ganglion cell type tessellates the retina in a regular mosaic, so that every point in visual space is processed for visual primitives such as contrast and motion. This information flows to tw...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature14103
更新日期:2015-03-12 00:00:00
abstract::THE mouse H19 gene encodes one of the most abundant RNAs in the developing mouse embryo. It is expressed at the blastocyst stage of development, and accumulates to high levels in tissues of endodermal and mesodermal origin (H. Kim, unpublished result). After birth the gene is expressed in all tissues except skeletal m...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/351153a0
更新日期:1991-05-09 00:00:00
abstract::The mariner transposable element is a small member of the short inverted terminal repeat class thought to transpose through a DNA intermediate. Originally described in Drosophila mauritiana, it is now known in several species of the family Drosophilidae, and in a moth Hyalophora cecropia. Here I use primers designed t...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/362241a0
更新日期:1993-03-18 00:00:00
abstract::Molecular self-assembly offers a 'bottom-up' route to fabrication with subnanometre precision of complex structures from simple components. DNA has proved to be a versatile building block for programmable construction of such objects, including two-dimensional crystals, nanotubes, and three-dimensional wireframe nanop...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature08016
更新日期:2009-05-21 00:00:00
abstract::State-of-the-art optical clocks1 achieve precisions of 10-18 or better using ensembles of atoms in optical lattices2,3 or individual ions in radio-frequency traps4,5. Promising candidates for use in atomic clocks are highly charged ions6 (HCIs) and nuclear transitions7, which are largely insensitive to external pertur...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2221-0
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Electrophoretic studies suggest that bacterial populations consist of a number of independent clones and that genetic recombination is rare in nature. But DNA sequencing reveals that individual bacterial genes have a mosaic structure that could have arisen only by recombination. How can these observations be reconcile...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/349029a0
更新日期:1991-01-03 00:00:00
abstract::Lantibiotics are a class of peptide antibiotics that contain one or more thioether bonds. The lantibiotic nisin is an antimicrobial peptide that is widely used as a food preservative to combat food-borne pathogens. Nisin contains dehydroalanine and dehydrobutyrine residues that are formed by the dehydration of Ser/Thr...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature13888
更新日期:2015-01-22 00:00:00
abstract::RNase P is the only endonuclease responsible for processing the 5' end of transfer RNA by cleaving a precursor and leading to tRNA maturation. It contains an RNA component and a protein component and has been identified in all organisms. It was one of the first catalytic RNAs identified and the first that acts as a mu...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature01386
更新日期:2003-02-13 00:00:00
abstract::In double-stranded-RNA (dsRNA) viruses found in animals, bacteria and yeast, the genome is transcribed within the structurally intact core of the virion with extraordinary efficiency. The structural organization of the genome and the enzymes involved in the transcription inside any of these viruses, critical for under...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/382471a0
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A multitude of heptahelical receptors use heterotrimeric G proteins to transduce signals to specific effector target molecules. The G protein transducin, Gt, couples photon-activated rhodopsin with the effector cyclic GMP phosophodiesterase (PDE) in the vertebrate phototransduction cascade. The interactions of the Gt ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/35059138
更新日期:2001-02-22 00:00:00
abstract::X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease) is an adult-onset form of motorneuron disease which may be associated with signs of androgen insensitivity. We have now investigated whether the androgen receptor gene on the proximal long arm of the X chromosome is a candidate gene for this disease. In p...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/352077a0
更新日期:1991-07-04 00:00:00
abstract::Change history: In Fig. 1b and c of this Letter, the inset times in the DIC and GFP microscopy images should be in minutes ('min') instead of seconds ('s'). This has not been corrected online. ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 已发布勘误
doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1327-8
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A wide variety of systems, including granular media, colloidal suspensions and molecular systems, exhibit non-equilibrium transitions from a fluid-like to a solid-like state, characterized solely by the sudden arrest of their dynamics. Crowding or jamming of the constituent particles traps them kinetically, precluding...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/35081021
更新日期:2001-06-14 00:00:00
abstract::Planetary formation theories suggest that the giant planets formed on circular and coplanar orbits. The eccentricities of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, however, reach values of 6 per cent, 9 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively. In addition, the inclinations of the orbital planes of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune take maxi...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature03539
更新日期:2005-05-26 00:00:00
abstract::Although the nuclear properties of the late actinides (plutonium, americium and curium) are fully understood and widely applied to energy generation, their solid-state properties do not fit within standard models and are the subject of active research. Plutonium displays phases with enormous volume differences, and bo...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature05647
更新日期:2007-03-29 00:00:00
abstract:: ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 评论,新闻
doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07240-0
更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transmission of obligate bacterial symbionts between generations is vital for the survival of the host. Although the larvae of certain hydrothermal vent tubeworms (Vestimentifera, Siboglinidae) are symbiont-free and possess a transient digestive system, these structures are lost during development, resulting in adult ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature04793
更新日期:2006-05-18 00:00:00
abstract::The germ-cell lineage ensures the continuity of life through the generation of male and female gametes, which unite to form a totipotent zygote. We have previously demonstrated that, by using cytokines, embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells can be induced into epiblast-like cells (EpiLCs) and then in...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature12417
更新日期:2013-09-12 00:00:00
abstract::Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCMs) are widespread in large parts of the world's oceans. These deep layers of high chlorophyll concentration reflect a compromise of phytoplankton growth exposed to two opposing resource gradients: light supplied from above and nutrients supplied from below. It is often argued that DCMs are ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature04245
更新日期:2006-01-19 00:00:00
abstract::An alphabeta T-cell response depends on the recognition of antigen plus major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins by its antigen receptor (TCR). The ability of peripheral alphabeta T cells to recognize MHC is at least partly determined by MHC-dependent thymic selection, by which an immature T cell survives only ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature07812
更新日期:2009-04-23 00:00:00
abstract::Pathfinding by growing axons in the developing nervous system may be guided by gradients of extracellular guidance factors. Analogous to the process of chemotaxis in microorganisms, we found that axonal growth cones of cultured Xenopus spinal neurons exhibit adaptation during chemotactic migration, undergoing consecut...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/nature745
更新日期:2002-05-23 00:00:00
abstract::Human-mediated translocation of species to areas beyond their natural distribution (which results in 'alien' populations1) is a key signature of the Anthropocene2, and is a primary global driver of biodiversity loss and environmental change3. Stemming the tide of invasions requires understanding why some species fail ...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1292-2
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Human behaviour is thought to spread through face-to-face social networks, but it is difficult to identify social influence effects in observational studies, and it is unknown whether online social networks operate in the same way. Here we report results from a randomized controlled trial of political mobilization mes...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1038/nature11421
更新日期:2012-09-13 00:00:00
abstract::Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) synthesizes triacylglycerides and is required for dietary fat absorption and fat storage in humans1. DGAT1 belongs to the membrane-bound O-acyltransferase (MBOAT) superfamily, members of which are found in all kingdoms of life and are involved in the acylation of lipids and p...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2280-2
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Genetic-environmental interactions probably underlie spontaneous human autoimmune disorders, a category of complex traits thought to include multiple sclerosis (MS). The geographical distribution and familial aggregation of this disease have often been ascribed to the role of infectious agents, but there is no consens...
journal_title:Nature
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/377150a0
更新日期:1995-09-14 00:00:00