2026ApJ...997L..45Z


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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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Number of rows : 15
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 GRB 200826A gB 00 27 08.47 +34 01 36.5           ~ 121 0
2 GRB 230307A gB 04 03 26.24 -75 22 43.8           ~ 221 0
3 SN 2025pht SN* 04 41 28.861 -02 51 55.61           SNIIP 2 0
4 * alf Ori s*r 05 55 10.30536 +07 24 25.4304 4.38 2.27 0.42 -1.17 -2.45 M1-M2Ia-Iab 1789 0
5 GRB 211227A gB 08 48 35.73 -02 44 07.1           ~ 57 0
6 AT 2022cmc ev 13 34 43.207 +33 13 00.54           ~ 79 0
7 SDSS J140910.47+275320.8 G 14 09 10.47535 +27 53 20.8393           ~ 279 0
8 GRB 230812B gB 16 36 31.49 +47 51 31.3           ~ 89 0
9 SWIFT J164449.3+573451 G 16 44 47.81184000 +57 35 00.7113480           ~ 533 0
10 GRB 250702C gB 18 01.0 +01 23           ~ 4 0
11 GRB 250702B gB 18 58 45.57 -07 52 26.2           ~ 12 0
12 GRB 221009A gB 19 13 03.85 +19 46 22.7           ~ 433 0
13 SWIFT J2058.4+0516 X 20 58 19.898 +05 13 32.25           ~ 169 0
14 GRB 060614 G 21 23 32.140 -53 01 36.10           ~ 714 0
15 GRB 240825A gB 22 58 12.0 +01 02 10           ~ 10 0

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