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Evidence of self-organized criticality in the prompt emission of a bright gamma-ray burst
Wen-Long Zhang, Wen-Jun Tan, Hao-Tian Lan +18
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosive events in the Universe, yet the physical mechanism of their prompt emission remains a mystery. Especially, it is unclear wh…
GRB 250706B/C: Insight-HXMT Discovery of a High-Luminosity Burst as a Candidate for Fallback-Regulated Accretion in the Prompt Emission
Chen-Wei Wang, R. Moradi, Shao-Lin Xiong +15
Fallback accretion in collapsar models is often associated with underluminous gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), leading to the widespread view that fallback-fed engines may be intrinsically…
A 4.5-s Quasiperiodic Spectral Oscillation in GRB 230307A: Evidence for Free Precession of a Post-Merger Magnetar?
Run-Chao Chen, Jun Yang, Bin-Bin Zhang +4
Millisecond magnetars, rapidly rotating neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields, have long been proposed as central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For GRBs produced by…
Jet-Structure Imprint on the Curvature Tail of Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission
Zhen-Yu Yan, Xiao-Hong Zhao, Hendrik J. van Eerten +7
Even though the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is highly beamed, high-latitude emission still produces a distinct light curve break after the intrinsic emission ceases…
Multi-wavelength study of EP250416a / GRB 250416C: An Optically Dark Long GRB with a Late Jet Break
Guoying Zhao, Duo-Le Cao, Rong-Feng Shen +29
We present multi-wavelength study of the /X-ray transient EP250416a (also designated GRB 250416C), triggered by the Einstein Probe (EP) Wide-field X-ray Telescope and also by SV…
Joint Observation of SGR J1935+2154 with \textit{Insight}-HXMT and KM40m during the active episode of October 2022
Wang-Chen Xue, Wen-Jun Tan, Yu-Xiang Huang +32
SGR J1935+2154 is the unique magnetar so far from which fast radio bursts have been detected. In October 2022, it resumed its burst activity, and we implemented a dedicated target-…
Spectral Evidence of Heavy Nuclei from the Neutron Star Crust in Magnetar Bursts
Sheng-Lun Xie, Yun-Wei Yu, Shao-Lin Xiong +1
The crust of a neutron star (NS) provides a unique laboratory for studying matter under extreme density and magnetic field conditions that cannot be realized in terrestrial experim…
Comprehensive Measurement of Spectral Evolution in a GRB Flare: High Time-Resolution Insights into the "Double-Tracking" Phenomenon
Zheng-Hang Yu, Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang +41
The spectral evolution characteristics of the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been extensively studied, but detailed investigations of spectral evolution in a GRB f…
GECAM discovery of the second FRB-associated Magnetar X-ray Burst from SGR J1935+2154
Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yue Wang +47
Fast radio burst (FRB) is mysterious phenomenon with millisecond-duration radio pulses observed mostly from cosmological distance. The association between FRB 200428 and a magnetar…
Brightest GRB flare observed in GRB 221009A: bridge the last gap between flare and prompt emission in GRB
Zheng-Hang Yu, Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong +46
Flares are usually observed during the afterglow phase of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in soft X-ray, optical and radio bands, but rarely in gamma-ray band. Despite the extraordinary br…
Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger
An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +75
Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and known progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts, bright flashes of high-energy radiation powered by a central engine, either an ac…
Advancing Identification method of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Data and Feature Enhancement
Peng Zhang, Bing Li, Ren-Zhou Gui +12
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are challenging to identify due to their transient nature, complex temporal profiles, and limited observational datasets. We address this with a one-dimensi…
GRB 240715A: Revealing Novel Intrinsic Mechanism by Different Individual Pulse
Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong +37
The Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), detected its first short gamma-ray burst, GRB 240715A, in-flight, which was jointly observed by Fermi. Based…
Eclipsed X-ray Bursts from Magnetar SGR J1935+2154 and the Fireball Measurements
Sheng-Lun Xie, Aming Chen, Yun-Wei Yu +17
In theory, burst activity of the magnetar can lead to the formation of fireballs trapped by the magnetic field and corotating with the star. However, the smoking-gun observational…
The Origin of Cross-Energy-Similar FRED Profiles in Gamma-Ray Bursts Pulses
Shu-Xu Yi, Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong +5
To understand the physical mechanisms underlying the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), single FRED (Fast-Rise-Exponential-Decay) profile GRBs serve as an ideal sample, as…
Evidence for a brief appearance of gamma-ray periodicity after a compact star merger
Run-Chao Chen, Bin-Bin Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang +6
The product of a compact star merger is usually hypothesized to be a hyperaccreting black hole, typically resulting in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with a duration shorter than 2~s. How…
The Production Mechanism of the High-energy Emission Line in the Brightest Cosmic Burst
Jieying Liu, Jirong Mao, Shao-Lin Xiong +1
As a characteristic feature of the spectrum, the emission line carries critical information on the underlying physics of the radiation. After extensive efforts in decades, the firs…
Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
Ce Cai, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yan-Qiu Zhang +21
Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fal…
On the Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Transient GRB 250702B/EP250702
Jin-Peng Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu +20
GRB 250702B/EP250702a is an interesting long-duration gamma-ray transient whose nature is in debate. To obtain a full picture in gamma-ray band, we implement a comprehensive target…
A 50 s quasi-periodic oscillation in the early X-ray afterglow of GRB 220711B
H. Gao, W. -H. Lei, S. Xiao +19
It is generally believed that long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from the core collapse of rapidly spinning massive stars and at least some of them are powered by hype…
Multi-Instrument Search for Gamma-Ray Counterpart of X-ray Transients detected by EP/WXT
Yan-Qiu Zhang, Wang-Chen Xue, Jin-Peng Zhang +25
As a soft X-ray imager with unprecedentedly large field of view, EP/WXT has detected many (fast) X-ray transients, whose nature is very intriguing. Whether there is gamma-ray count…
Two Periodic Activity Epochs in FRB 20201124A: Coincident with Critical RM Evolution Epochs and Its Implications
Wen-Long Zhang, Chen-Ran Hu, Chen Du +12
Recent observations of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 20201124A by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) revealed a second-scale periodic modulation…
Insight-HXMT observations of the extremely bright GRB 221009A
Wen-Long Zhang, Wang-Chen Xue, Cheng-Kui Li +22
The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\insight) detected GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst observed to date, with all its three telescopes, i.e. High Energy telescope (HE,…
A search for periodic activity in multi-peaked long gamma-ray bursts
C. Guidorzi, M. Orlandini, R. Maccary +10
A sizeable fraction of gamma-ray burst (GRB) light curves (LCs) features a sequence of peaks, which holds information on the unknown way energy is dissipated into gamma-rays over t…