SGR 0526−66
| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Dorado |
| Right ascension | 05h 26m 00.7s |
| Declination | −66° 04′ 35″ |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 24.0 |
| Characteristics | |
| Spectral type | M |
| Astrometry | |
| Distance | 165,000 ly |
| Other designations | |
| PSR B0526−66 | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
SGR 0526−66 (also known as PSR B0565−66) is a soft gamma repeater (SGR), located in the supernova remnant LMC N49, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was the first soft gamma repeater discovered, and as of 2015, the only known located outside our galaxy. First detected in March 1979, it was located by using the measurement of the arrival time differences of the signal by the set of artificial satellites equipped with gamma ray detectors. It is not certain that the explosion that gave birth to SGR 0525-66 is also the one that produced the remnant N49.