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Modeling the Imprints of Large-scale Magnetized Structures on γ-Rays from Extragalactic Transients

  • Authors: Saikat Das, Soebur Razzaque, Nestor Mirabal, Nicola Omodei, Kohta Murase, Israel Martinez-Castellanos

Saikat Das et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

(a) Schematic illustration of the two distinct zones: the magnetized structure hosting the GRB at redshift z = 0.151 and the surrounding void region. We adopt a comoving size of dc ∼ 10 Mpc for the structured region, while the weakly magnetized void IGM extends over dc ∼ 638 Mpc. (b) The observer sphere (Robs = 638 Mpc) is centered at O, used to record cascade γ rays produced after charged particles (p, e±) are deflected within the magnetized structure. Events arriving within an aperture angle ∠POS are collected. In this analysis, we apply a narrow angular cut defined by the yellow cone, with half-opening angle ∠TOS = 1° about the line of sight OS. The photon deflection angle is defined as the angle between the photon momentum vector ﹩\hat{{\boldsymbol{n}}}﹩ (e.g., ﹩{\boldsymbol{Q}}{{\boldsymbol{Q}}}^{{\boldsymbol{{\prime} }}}﹩) and the initial jet emission axis, ﹩{\boldsymbol{S}}{\boldsymbol{O}}﹩, taken to be ﹩\hat{{\bf{e}}}=(-1,0,0)﹩. For a statistically significant event sample, the distribution around the line of sight may be regarded as azimuthally symmetric.

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