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Abstract:
Magnetars are a rare class of highly magnetised neutron star. They are
the primary source of local gamma-ray bursts and are speculated to
produce a significant fraction of extragalactic fast radio
bursts. Studying the local population of magnetars within the
Milky Way is therefore key to understanding these highly energetic
objects and the role they play in the transient sky. In this talk, I
will present the initial results of on-going project to monitor a
peculiar radio-loud magnetar, Swift J1818.0-1607, with Murriyang, the
Parkes 64-m radio telescope. This includes the unusually pulsar-like
properties of this object seen in early observations, and a brief
identity crisis in which the neutron star displayed a host of unique
behaviour never before seen any other radio pulsar.
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