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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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Multiwavelength observations of GRB 250404A/EP250404a and afterglow modeling with the best-fit parameters from the FS+RS model with u-, v-, and g-band correction factors. The multiwavelength data utilized in the afterglow fitting are marked with filled points, while the optical observations on clear filters that are not included in the afterglow fitting are marked with open points. The optical and near-infrared data have been corrected for Galactic extinction, which is E(B − V) = 0.073 mag (E. F. Schlafly & D. P. Finkbeiner 2011). We assume a total to selective extinction ratio of RV = 3.1 according to the extinction law from E. L. Fitzpatrick (1999). The inverted triangle points signify upper limits. The best-fit FS+RS, FS, and RS models are shown with solid, dashed–dotted, and dotted lines, respectively. The dark blue dashed vertical lines correspond to the same time interval where the spectra start to harden and reach a plateau.

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