{"title":"Primordial Non-Gaussianity Systematics from Redshift Mismatch with SPHEREx","authors":"Chandra Shekhar Saraf and David Parkinson","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/add1b8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add1b8","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to differentiate between different models of inflation through the imprint of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) requires stringent constraints on the local PNG parameter . Upcoming data from the large-scale structure surveys like Euclid, Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) will be instrumental in advancing our understanding of the inflationary epoch. In this context, we present forecasts on PNG with tomographic angular power spectra derived from simulations of SPHEREx. We put forward the effects of redshift bin mismatch of galaxies as a significant source of systematic uncertainty in the estimation of both and galaxy linear halo bias. We simulate 500 SPHEREx-like galaxy density fields and divide the galaxies into redshift bins assuming Gaussian photometric redshift errors. We show that the misclassification of galaxies in redshift bins can result in strong apparent tensions on up to ∼3–6σ and up to ∼9–12σ on galaxy bias. To address this, we propose a scattering matrix formalism that mitigates bin mismatch of galaxies and enables unbiased estimation of cosmological parameters from tomographic angular clustering measurements.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144177005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nikita Kosogorov, Gregg Hallinan, Casey Law, Jack Hickish, Jayce Dowell, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Bin Chen, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D’Addario, Ivey Davis, Katherine Elder, Dale Gary, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T. Klinefelter, Matthew Kolopanis, James Lamb, Nivedita Mahesh, Surajit Mondal, Brian O’Donnell, Kathryn Plant, Corey Posner, Vinand Prayag, Andres Rizo, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Jun Shi, Greg Taylor, Mike Virgin, Akshatha Vydula, Sandy Weinreb, David Woody, Sijie Yu, Peijin Zhang and Yifan (Amy) Zhao
{"title":"Implementing Continuous All-sky Monitoring with the OVRO-LWA to Identify Prompt and Precursor Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events","authors":"Nikita Kosogorov, Gregg Hallinan, Casey Law, Jack Hickish, Jayce Dowell, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Bin Chen, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D’Addario, Ivey Davis, Katherine Elder, Dale Gary, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T. Klinefelter, Matthew Kolopanis, James Lamb, Nivedita Mahesh, Surajit Mondal, Brian O’Donnell, Kathryn Plant, Corey Posner, Vinand Prayag, Andres Rizo, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Jun Shi, Greg Taylor, Mike Virgin, Akshatha Vydula, Sandy Weinreb, David Woody, Sijie Yu, Peijin Zhang and Yifan (Amy) Zhao","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/add014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add014","url":null,"abstract":"A number of theoretical studies have proposed a prompt or precursor low-frequency radio counterpart to gravitational wave events detected by LIGO and Virgo. Detection of such events would offer a new window on the immediate environment of the merger and provide an avenue to rapid localization. However, identifying fast transients in real-time in localization regions spanning hundreds to thousands of square degrees presents severe technical challenges. To address these challenges, we present a novel technique embodied in the Time Machine, a system featuring a two-stage voltage buffer and subsequent processing pipeline designed for the Long Wavelength Array at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. This array is developed to instantaneously image the entire viewable sky. We detail the system’s buffer structure that allows data collection from several minutes before a trigger event, up to 30 minutes after an event. The processing of this voltage data involves beamforming and searching the full 90th-percentile localization region above the horizon with ms-time resolution and the ability to detect events with ∼100 Jy ms (7σ) fluence within the 55–85 MHz band. Furthermore, we incorporate an offline cross-correlation pipeline to improve positional accuracy of identified transients to within subarcminute levels. We present a full overview of the system design and initial testing results.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144177004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. R. C. Silva, L. M. S. V. Queiroz, L. F. A. Ferrão and S. Pilling
{"title":"Molecular Evolution of H2O:O2 Ices at Different Temperatures in Simulated Space Environments. I. Chemical Kinetics and Equilibrium","authors":"J. R. C. Silva, L. M. S. V. Queiroz, L. F. A. Ferrão and S. Pilling","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adc924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc924","url":null,"abstract":"We computationally investigated the chemical evolution of H2O:O2 ices (6:1 ratio) under irradiation by cosmic-ray analogs (0.8 MeV H+) at 9, 50, and 100 K to understand the implications the chemical evolution of O2-containing ices in space, such as the surface of the Moon, comets, outer solar system bodies such Europa and Enceladus, as well as Kuiper Belt objects, and cold regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). Using experimental data and the PROCODA code with 200 reactions coupled equations involving 12 species, we calculated physicochemical parameters such as effective rate coefficients (ERCs), chemical abundances, and desorption. Six species were observed experimentally (H2O, O2, HO2, H2O2, O3, and HO3), while six were predicted but not observed in the experiments (H, H2, H3, O, OH, and H3O). Our findings highlight the influence of temperature on chemical equilibria and desorption yields, with certain reaction rates diminishing at 50 K. Among the results were the lists with the ERCs, and the reaction branching ratio obtained by best-fit models can be employed in astrochemical models. Curiously, we observe that the average ERCs for bimolecular collisions decrease by half as the ice temperature increases, varying from 5.8e-25 to 2.9e-25 cm3 molecules−1 s−1 for the ices studied. These results enhance our understanding of the physical chemistry of astrophysical ices under ionizing radiation, providing valuable data for astrochemical models that assess the effects of cosmic radiation on the composition and stability of icy bodies in the solar system and denser and colder regions of the ISM.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Galactic Isolated Stellar-mass Black Holes with the Magnetospheric Spark Gap as Possible GeV–TeV Gamma-Ray Unidentified Sources","authors":"Koki Kin, Riku Kuze and Shigeo S. Kimura","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adcb3d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adcb3d","url":null,"abstract":"Billions of isolated stellar-mass black holes (IBHs) are thought to wander through the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galaxy, yet only one has been detected. IBHs embedded in ISM would accrete gas via Bondi–Hoyle–Littleton accretion, and with efficient magnetic flux accumulation, the magnetosphere would be formed in the vicinity of IBHs. We explore the detectability of such IBHs through high-energy gamma-rays from spark gaps in their magnetospheres based on our recent numerical simulation. Spark gap gamma-rays can be bright at the GeV–TeV energies when IBHs are in the dense ISM. About 103 and 10 IBHs might be contained in unidentified objects of the Fermi Large Area Telescope and the High Energy Stereoscopic System, respectively. A future Galactic plane survey by the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory would lead to ∼102 detections. We also evaluate the combined gamma-ray emission of IBHs in the Galaxy and find that the IBHs may contribute to the Galactic diffuse gamma-rays. IBHs will emit optical and X-ray photons from their accretion disk as counterparts, potentially useful for identifying candidates.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jack E. Birkin, Justin S. Spilker, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Rebecca L. Davies, Lilian L. Lee, Manuel Aravena, Roberto J. Assef, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Alberto Bolatto, Tanio Diaz-Santos, Andreas L. Faisst, Andrea Ferrara, Deanne B. Fisher, Jorge González-López, Ryota Ikeda, Kirsten Knudsen, Juno Li, Yuan Li, Ilse de Looze, Dieter Lutz, Ikki Mitsuhashi, Ana Posses, Monica Relaño, Manuel Solimano, Ken-ichi Tadaki and Vicente Villanueva
{"title":"The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Weak Evidence for Star-formation-driven Outflows in z ∼ 5 Main-sequence Galaxies","authors":"Jack E. Birkin, Justin S. Spilker, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, Rebecca L. Davies, Lilian L. Lee, Manuel Aravena, Roberto J. Assef, Loreto Barcos-Muñoz, Alberto Bolatto, Tanio Diaz-Santos, Andreas L. Faisst, Andrea Ferrara, Deanne B. Fisher, Jorge González-López, Ryota Ikeda, Kirsten Knudsen, Juno Li, Yuan Li, Ilse de Looze, Dieter Lutz, Ikki Mitsuhashi, Ana Posses, Monica Relaño, Manuel Solimano, Ken-ichi Tadaki and Vicente Villanueva","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adced3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adced3","url":null,"abstract":"There is a broad consensus from theory that stellar feedback in galaxies at high redshifts is essential to their evolution, alongside conflicting evidence in the observational literature about its prevalence and efficacy. To this end, we utilize deep, high-resolution [C II] emission-line data taken as part of the [C II] resolved interstellar medium (ISM) in star-forming galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (CRISTAL) survey. Excluding sources with kinematic evidence for gravitational interactions, we perform a rigorous stacking analysis of the remaining 15 galaxies to search for broad emission features that are too weak to detect in the individual spectra, finding only weak evidence that a broad component is needed to explain the composite spectrum. Additionally, such evidence is mostly driven by CRISTAL-02, which is already known to exhibit strong outflows in multiple ISM phases. Interpreting modest residuals in the stack at v ∼ 300 km s−1 as an outflow, we derive a mass outflow rate of = 26 ± 11 M⊙ yr−1 and a cold outflow mass-loading factor of ηm = 0.49 ± 0.20. This result holds for the subsample with the highest star formation rate surface density (ΣSFR > 1.93 M⊙ yr−1 kpc−2), but no such broad component is present in the composite of the lower-star-formation-rate density subsample. Our results imply that the process of star-formation-driven feedback may already be in place in typical galaxies at z = 5, but on average are not strong enough to completely quench ongoing star formation.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matilde Mingozzi, Macarena Garcia del Valle-Espinosa, Bethan L. James, Ryan J. Rickards Vaught, Matthew Hayes, Ricardo O. Amorín, Claus Leitherer, Alessandra Aloisi, Leslie Hunt, David Law, Chris T. Richardson, Aidan Pidgeon, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm, Svea Hernandez, Logan Jones, Nimisha Kumari, Crystal L. Martin, Swara Ravindranath, Livia Vallini and Xinfeng Xu
{"title":"Exploring the Mysterious High-ionization Source Powering [Ne v] in High-z Analog SBS0335-052 E with JWST/MIRI","authors":"Matilde Mingozzi, Macarena Garcia del Valle-Espinosa, Bethan L. James, Ryan J. Rickards Vaught, Matthew Hayes, Ricardo O. Amorín, Claus Leitherer, Alessandra Aloisi, Leslie Hunt, David Law, Chris T. Richardson, Aidan Pidgeon, Karla Z. Arellano-Córdova, Danielle A. Berg, John Chisholm, Svea Hernandez, Logan Jones, Nimisha Kumari, Crystal L. Martin, Swara Ravindranath, Livia Vallini and Xinfeng Xu","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adc996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc996","url":null,"abstract":"Nearby blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs) are considered analogs to objects from the Epoch of Reionization revealed by JWST, having similarly low stellar masses, low metallicities, and high specific star formation rates. Thus, they represent ideal local laboratories for detailed multiwavelength studies of their properties and mechanisms that shape them. We report the first JWST MIRI/MRS observations of the BCD SBS 0335-052 E, analyzing MIR emission lines tracing different levels of ionization (e.g., [Ne ii], [S iv], [Ne iii], [O iv], [Ne v]) of the ionized gas. SBS 0335-052 E MIR emission is characterized by a bright point source, located in one of the youngest and most embedded stellar clusters (t ∼ 3 Myr, AV ∼ 15), and underlying extended high-ionization emission (i.e., [O iv] and [Ne v]) from the surroundings of the older and less dusty stellar clusters (t < 20 Myr, AV ∼ 8). From a comparison with state-of-the-art models, we can exclude shocks, X-ray binaries, and old stellar populations as the main sources of ionization. Interestingly, a 4%–8% contribution of a ∼105M⊙intermediate massive black hole (IMBH) is needed to justify the strong [Ne v]/[Ne ii] and would be consistent with optical/UV line ratios from previous studies. However, even IMBH models cannot explain the strongest [O iv]/[Ne iii]. Also, star-forming models (regardless of including X-ray binaries) struggle to reproduce even the lower ionization line ratios (e.g., [S iv]/[Ne ii]) typically observed in BCDs. Overall, while current models suggest the need to account for an accreting IMBH in this high-z analog, limitations still exist in predicting high-ionization emission lines (I.P. > 54 eV) when modeling these low-metallicity environments, and thus other sources of ionization cannot be fully ruled out.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun-Ting Ye, Rui Wang, Si-Pei Wang and Lie-Wen Chen
{"title":"High-density Symmetry Energy: A Key to the Solution of the Hyperon Puzzle","authors":"Jun-Ting Ye, Rui Wang, Si-Pei Wang and Lie-Wen Chen","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/add017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add017","url":null,"abstract":"The recently developed nuclear effective interaction based on the so-called N3LO Skyrme pseudopotential is extended to include hyperon–nucleon and hyperon–hyperon interactions by assuming similar density, momentum, and isospin dependence as for the nucleon–nucleon interaction. The parameters in these interactions are determined from either experimental information, if any, or chiral effective field theory or lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations of the hyperon potentials in nuclear matter around nuclear saturation density ρ0. We find that varying the high-density behavior of the symmetry energy Esym(ρ) can significantly change the critical density for hyperon appearance in neutron stars and thus the maximum mass MTOV of static hyperon stars. In particular, a symmetry energy that is soft around 2ρ0–3ρ0 but stiff above about 4ρ0 can lead to MTOV ≳ 2 M⊙ for hyperon stars and simultaneously be compatible with (1) the constraints on the equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter at suprasaturation densities obtained from flow data in heavy-ion collisions; (2) the microscopic calculations of the equation of state for pure neutron matter; (3) the tidal deformability of stars extracted from gravitational wave signal GW 170817; (4) the mass–radius relations of PSR J0030+0451, PSR J0740+6620, and PSR J0437-4715 measured from NICER; and (5) the observation of an unusually low mass and small radius in the central compact object of HESS J1731-347. Furthermore, the squared sound speed of the hyperon star matter naturally displays a strong peak structure around a baryon density of 3ρ0–4ρ0, consistent with a model-independent analysis of the multimessenger data. Our results suggest that the high-density symmetry energy could be a key to the solution of the hyperon puzzle in neutron star physics.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-resolution Observational Features of Type I Solar Radio Bursts","authors":"Yuzhi Yang, Zongjun Ning, Yuxiang Song, Yijie Han, Xiaoyu Tang, Mingbao Gao, Hui Liu, Jingye Yan, Bing Wang and Shuwang Chang","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/add143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/add143","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we statistically studied the characteristic features of solar radio Type I bursts observed by Chashan broadband solar radio spectrometer at meter wavelengths from 00:06 to 07:28 UT on 2023 December 13. Based on the image morphology, we develop a method to identify individual Type I bursts on the dynamic spectra from a connected region with a ratio of the duration to bandwidth less than or equal to 3.8 and the area sum (total pixels) greater than 4. In total, 102,073 and 78,773 bursts are detected on right-hand circular polarization and left-hand circular polarization components, respectively. We find Type I bursts with a mean lifetime of 0.7 s, a mean bandwidth of 5.6 MHz, and a relative bandwidth Δf/f0 of about 2%–3%. Consistent with the previous findings of hard X-ray pulses, microwave pulses, Type III bursts, and decimetric spikes, Type I bursts exhibit their duration, bandwidth, peak intensity, and area sum with a power-law distribution. From the linear fitting in log–log space, we obtain the slope index between 1 and 3.5 for various parameters. Meanwhile, Type I bursts display the mean polarization degree in the range from −22% to 33%, and different bursts have various degrees. We find that Type I bursts tend to appear as a chain, and the short periods of 0.92 and 1.22 s are detected in two burst chains. Our finding would be an observational constraint for the emission mechanism and physical model of solar Type I radio bursts.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rahul Basu, Dipanjan Mitra, George I. Melikidze and Krzysztof Maciesiak
{"title":"Pulsar Coherent Radio Emission from Solitons: Average Emission Properties","authors":"Rahul Basu, Dipanjan Mitra, George I. Melikidze and Krzysztof Maciesiak","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adce7a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adce7a","url":null,"abstract":"Observations have established that coherent radio emission from pulsars arises at a few hundred kilometers above the stellar surface. Recent polarization studies have further demonstrated that plasma instabilities are necessary for charge bunching that gives rise to coherent emission. The formation of charged solitons in the electron–positron plasma is the only known bunching mechanism that can be realized at these heights. More than five decades of observations have revealed a number of emission features that should emerge from any valid radio emission mechanism. We have carried out numerical calculations to find the features of average emission from curvature radiation due to charged solitons. The characteristic curvature radiation spectrum has been updated from the well-known one-dimensional dependence to a general two-dimensional form, and the contribution from each soliton along the observer’s line of sight (LOS) has been added to reproduce the pulsar emission. The outflowing plasma is formed by sparking discharges above the stellar surface that are located within concentric rings resembling the core–cone emission beam, and uniform distribution of solitons along any LOS has been assumed. The observed effects of radius-to-frequency mapping, where the lower-frequency emission originates from higher altitudes, are seen in this setup. The power-law spectrum and relative steepening of the core spectra with respect to the cones also emerge. The estimated polarization position angle reflects the geometrical configuration of pulsars as expected. These studies demonstrate the efficacy of coherent curvature radiation from charged solitons to reproduce the average observational features of pulsars.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144164810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling the Origins of Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Plateaus through a Study of X-Ray Flares","authors":"H. Dereli-Bégué, A. Pe’er, D. Bégué and F. Ryde","doi":"10.3847/1538-4357/adcead","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adcead","url":null,"abstract":"The X-ray light curves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display complex features, including plateaus and flares, that challenge theoretical models. Here, we study the properties of flares that are observed in the early afterglow phase (up to a few thousand seconds). We split the sample into two groups: bursts with and without an X-ray plateau. We find that the distributions of flare properties are similar in each group; specifically, the peak time (tpk) of the flares and the ratio of the flare width to the flare peak time (w/tpk), which is found to be ≈1, regardless of the presence of a plateau. We discuss these results in view of the different theoretical models aimed at explaining the origin of the plateau. These results are difficult to explain by viewing angle effects or late-time energy injection, but do not contradict the idea that GRBs with X-ray plateaus have a low Lorentz factor, on the order of tens. For these GRBs, the dissipation processes that produce the flares naturally occur at smaller radii compared to GRBs with higher Lorentz factors, while the flares maintain a similar behavior. Our results therefore provide independent support for the idea that many GRBs have a Lorentz factor of a few tens rather than a few hundreds.","PeriodicalId":501813,"journal":{"name":"The Astrophysical Journal","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}