The X-ray spectra of the magnetar candidates are customarily fitted with an empirical, two component model: an absorbed blackbody and a power-law. However, the physical interpretation of these two spectral components is rarely discussed. It has been recently proposed that the presence of a hot plasma in the magnetosphere of highly magnetized neutron stars might distort, through efficient resonant cyclotron scattering, the thermal emission from the neutron star surface, resulting in production of non-thermal spectra. Here we discuss the Resonant Cyclotron Scattering (RCS) model, and present its XSPEC implementation, as well as preliminary results of its application to Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007.
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Rea, N., Zane, S., Lyutikov, M., & Turolla, R. (2007). Our distorted view of magnetars: Application of the resonant cyclotron scattering model. In Isolated Neutron Stars: From The Surface To The Interior (pp. 61–65). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5998-8_8
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