The Origin of Cross-Energy-Similar FRED Profiles in Gamma-Ray Bursts Pulses

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Main Authors: Yi, Shu-Xu, Wang, Chen-Wei, Xiong, Shao-Lin, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Maccary, Romain, Moradi, Rahim, Xiao, Shuo, Feng, Hua
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author Yi, Shu-Xu
Wang, Chen-Wei
Xiong, Shao-Lin
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Maccary, Romain
Moradi, Rahim
Xiao, Shuo
Feng, Hua
author_facet Yi, Shu-Xu
Wang, Chen-Wei
Xiong, Shao-Lin
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Maccary, Romain
Moradi, Rahim
Xiao, Shuo
Feng, Hua
contents To understand the physical mechanisms underlying the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), single FRED (Fast-Rise-Exponential-Decay) profile GRBs serve as an ideal sample, as they origin from single epoch central engine activity. These GRBs have been found to exhibit a peculiar morphology-including the elegant cross-energy-similarity across energy bands and the recently discovered composite nature-challenging nearly all existing radiation mechanisms, sparking widespread curiosity about their origins. Here we propose a physical model which includes radiation locations sequentially triggered by propagating magnetic perturbations. It naturally explains all observed properties of these GRBs, including the self-similar FRED profile, multi-band aligned subpulses, hard-to-soft spectral evolution, local intensity tracking, and increasing subpulse durations. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that the duration of these GRBs is not reflecting the activity timescale of the central engine, reconciling recent challenges to the traditional merger-short/collapsar-long dichotomy of GRBs.
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spellingShingle The Origin of Cross-Energy-Similar FRED Profiles in Gamma-Ray Bursts Pulses
Yi, Shu-Xu
Wang, Chen-Wei
Xiong, Shao-Lin
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Maccary, Romain
Moradi, Rahim
Xiao, Shuo
Feng, Hua
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
To understand the physical mechanisms underlying the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), single FRED (Fast-Rise-Exponential-Decay) profile GRBs serve as an ideal sample, as they origin from single epoch central engine activity. These GRBs have been found to exhibit a peculiar morphology-including the elegant cross-energy-similarity across energy bands and the recently discovered composite nature-challenging nearly all existing radiation mechanisms, sparking widespread curiosity about their origins. Here we propose a physical model which includes radiation locations sequentially triggered by propagating magnetic perturbations. It naturally explains all observed properties of these GRBs, including the self-similar FRED profile, multi-band aligned subpulses, hard-to-soft spectral evolution, local intensity tracking, and increasing subpulse durations. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that the duration of these GRBs is not reflecting the activity timescale of the central engine, reconciling recent challenges to the traditional merger-short/collapsar-long dichotomy of GRBs.
title The Origin of Cross-Energy-Similar FRED Profiles in Gamma-Ray Bursts Pulses
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18207