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Spectral Hardening Reveals Afterglow Emergence in Long-duration Fast X-Ray Transients: A Case Study of GRB 250404A/EP250404a

  • Authors: Yi-Han Iris Yin, Yuan Fang, Bin-Bin Zhang, Chen Deng, Jun Yang, Run-Chao Chen, Yuan Liu, Yehao Cheng, Dong Xu, Xiaofeng Wang, Rongfeng Shen, Rui-Zhi Li, Jirong Mao, Wen-Xiong Li, Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado, Weihua Lei, Shao-Yu Fu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Shuai-Qing Jiang, Jie An, Chun Chen, Zhong-Nan Dong, Guowang Du, Ali Esamdin, Zhou Fan, Haicheng Feng, Lu Feng, Emilio Fernández-García, Xing Gao, Maria Gritsevich, Wei-Jian Guo, Jingwei Hu, You-Dong Hu, Yanlong Hua, Abdusamatjan Iskandar, Junjie Jin, Niu Li, Xia Li, Ziwei Li, Jia-Qi Lin, Dezi Liu, Jinzhong Liu, Qichun Liu, Xiaowei Liu, Xing Liu, Daniele B. Malesani, Ignacio Pérez-García, Hui Sun, Xue-Feng Wu, Yun-Ao Xiao, Ding-Rong Xiong, Shengyu Yan, Beibei Zhang, Jinghua Zhang, Haichang Zhu, Zipei Zhu, Hu Zou, Weimin Yuan, Bing Zhang

Yi-Han Iris Yin et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 989 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Left: the observed light curve of EP250404a detected by EP/WXT in the energy range of 0.5–4.0 keV, the observed light curve of GRB 250404A detected by Fermi/GBM in the energy range of 10–1000 keV and the accumulated counts, and the spectral evolution based on the best-fit parameters of the CPL, PL, and SBPL models. The gray block marks the time interval where the source was outside the field of view of the detector. The dashed curve in the WXT light curve indicates a significant slew of the WXT telescope during the main emission phase, during which flux measurements may be affected. The blue dashed vertical lines represent the T90 interval, and the purple dashed vertical lines in the GBM light curve denote T100, with solid (dashed) gray horizontal lines indicating the 0% (5%) and 100% (95%) levels, respectively. The dark blue dashed vertical lines in the FXT (fourth) panel correspond to the time interval where the spectra start to harden and reach a plateau. Right: the evolution of the SEDs. The SEDs are derived from the spectral fittings at different time intervals listed in Tables A1 and A2. All error bars mark the 1σ confidence level.

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