AXP

English

Noun

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).

See also

• PSR
• RRAT
• SGR

Anagrams

• Pax, XAP, pax