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2026ApJ...997L..45Z - Astrophys. J., 997, L45 (2026/February-1)

On the Ultralong Gamma-Ray Transient GRB 250702B/EP 250702a.

ZHANG J.-P., WANG C.-W., YU Z.-H., XIONG S.-L., YI S.-X., LIU J.-C., XUE W.-C., TAN W.-J., ZHANG Z.-R., MORADI R., GUO H.-X., ZHENG C., ZHANG Y.-Q., WANG Y., XIE S.-L., ZHANG P., REN Y.-Z., LI C.-K., LI X.-B., CAI C., XIAO S., SONG L.-M. and ZHANG S.-N.

Abstract (from CDS):

GRB 250702B/EP 250702a is an interesting long-duration gamma-ray transient whose nature is in debate. To obtain a full picture in the gamma-ray band, we implement a comprehensive targeted search of burst emission in a wide window of 30 days jointly with Insight-HXMT, GECAM, and Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor data within the ETJASMIN framework. In the gamma-ray band, we find that there is a 50 s precursor about 25 hr before the 4 hr main burst, which generally consists of four emission episodes. Remarkably, we find that the soft X-ray emission after the main burst decays as a power law with a start time aligning with the last episode of main emission and an index of -5/3, which is perfectly consistent with the canonical prediction of fallback accretion. We conclude that the properties of the precursor, the main burst, and the following soft X-ray emission strongly support the ultralong gamma-ray burst (ULGRB) scenario, and all this gamma-ray and soft X-ray emission probably originates from a relativistic jet whose luminosity is dominated by the fallback accretion rate during the death collapse of a supergiant star.

Abstract Copyright: © 2026. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Gamma-ray bursts - Tidal disruption - X-ray transient sources

Simbad objects: 15

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