EP250827b/SN 2025wkm: An X-ray Flash-Supernova Powered by a Central Engine and Circumstellar Interaction

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Main Authors: Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P., Li, Dongyue, Hall, Xander J., Gottlieb, Ore, Schroeder, Genevieve, Liu, Heyang, O'Connor, Brendan, Jin, Chichuan, Kasliwal, Mansi, Ahumada, Tomás, Wu, Qinyu, Fryer, Christopher L., Niblett, Annabelle E., Xu, Dong, Ravasio, Maria Edvige, Daja, Grace, Li, Wenxiong, Anand, Shreya, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Sun, Hui, Perley, Daniel A., Yan, Lin, Burns, Eric, Cenko, S. Bradley, Sollerman, Jesper, Sarin, Nikhil, Piro, Anthony L., Aryan, Amar, Miller, M. Coleman, An, Jie, An, Tao, Andrews, Moira, Augustin, Jule, Bellm, Eric C., Bochenek, Aleksandra, Busmann, Malte, Chanchaiworawit, Krittapas, Chen, Huaqing, Caballero-García, Maria D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Esamdin, Ali, Faba-Moreno, Jennifer, Farah, Joseph, Fernández-García, Emilio, Fu, Shaoyu, Fynbo, Johan P. U., Gassert, Julius, Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla, Pérez-García, Ignacio, Graham, Matthew, Gritsevich, Maria, Gruen, Daniel, Guziy, Sergiy, Howell, D. Andrew, He, Linbo, Hu, Jingwei, Hu, You-Dong, Iskandar, Abdusamatjan, Jaims, Joahan Castaneda, Jiang, Ji-An, Jiang, Ning, Jiang, Shuaijiao, Liang, Runduo, Ling, Zhixing, Liu, Jialian, Liu, Xing, Liu, Yuan, Masci, Frank J., McCully, Curtis, Newsome, Megan, Noysena, Kanthanakorn, Pandey, Shashi B., Ni, Kangrui, Palmese, Antonella, Peng, Han-Long, Purdum, Josiah, Qin, Yu-Jing, Rose, Sam, Rusholme, Ben, Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén, Sevilla, Cassie, Smith, Roger, Song, Yujia, Sravan, Niharika, Stein, Robert, Tabor, Constantin, Terreran, Giacomo, Tinyanont, Samaporn, Vega, Pablo, Wang, Letian, Wang, Tinggu, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wu, Siyu, Wu, Xuefeng, Wynn, Kathryn, Xu, Yunfei, Yan, Shengyu, Yuan, Weimin, Zhang, Binbin, Zhang, Chen, Zhu, Zipei, Zuo, Xiaoxiong, Bhullar, Gursimran
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author Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P.
Li, Dongyue
Hall, Xander J.
Gottlieb, Ore
Schroeder, Genevieve
Liu, Heyang
O'Connor, Brendan
Jin, Chichuan
Kasliwal, Mansi
Ahumada, Tomás
Wu, Qinyu
Fryer, Christopher L.
Niblett, Annabelle E.
Xu, Dong
Ravasio, Maria Edvige
Daja, Grace
Li, Wenxiong
Anand, Shreya
Ho, Anna Y. Q.
Sun, Hui
Perley, Daniel A.
Yan, Lin
Burns, Eric
Cenko, S. Bradley
Sollerman, Jesper
Sarin, Nikhil
Piro, Anthony L.
Aryan, Amar
Miller, M. Coleman
An, Jie
An, Tao
Andrews, Moira
Augustin, Jule
Bellm, Eric C.
Bochenek, Aleksandra
Busmann, Malte
Chanchaiworawit, Krittapas
Chen, Huaqing
Caballero-García, Maria D.
Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
Esamdin, Ali
Faba-Moreno, Jennifer
Farah, Joseph
Fernández-García, Emilio
Fu, Shaoyu
Fynbo, Johan P. U.
Gassert, Julius
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pérez-García, Ignacio
Graham, Matthew
Gritsevich, Maria
Gruen, Daniel
Guziy, Sergiy
Howell, D. Andrew
He, Linbo
Hu, Jingwei
Hu, You-Dong
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Jaims, Joahan Castaneda
Jiang, Ji-An
Jiang, Ning
Jiang, Shuaijiao
Liang, Runduo
Ling, Zhixing
Liu, Jialian
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Masci, Frank J.
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Noysena, Kanthanakorn
Pandey, Shashi B.
Ni, Kangrui
Palmese, Antonella
Peng, Han-Long
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Rose, Sam
Rusholme, Ben
Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén
Sevilla, Cassie
Smith, Roger
Song, Yujia
Sravan, Niharika
Stein, Robert
Tabor, Constantin
Terreran, Giacomo
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Vega, Pablo
Wang, Letian
Wang, Tinggu
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wu, Siyu
Wu, Xuefeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Xu, Yunfei
Yan, Shengyu
Yuan, Weimin
Zhang, Binbin
Zhang, Chen
Zhu, Zipei
Zuo, Xiaoxiong
Bhullar, Gursimran
author_facet Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P.
Li, Dongyue
Hall, Xander J.
Gottlieb, Ore
Schroeder, Genevieve
Liu, Heyang
O'Connor, Brendan
Jin, Chichuan
Kasliwal, Mansi
Ahumada, Tomás
Wu, Qinyu
Fryer, Christopher L.
Niblett, Annabelle E.
Xu, Dong
Ravasio, Maria Edvige
Daja, Grace
Li, Wenxiong
Anand, Shreya
Ho, Anna Y. Q.
Sun, Hui
Perley, Daniel A.
Yan, Lin
Burns, Eric
Cenko, S. Bradley
Sollerman, Jesper
Sarin, Nikhil
Piro, Anthony L.
Aryan, Amar
Miller, M. Coleman
An, Jie
An, Tao
Andrews, Moira
Augustin, Jule
Bellm, Eric C.
Bochenek, Aleksandra
Busmann, Malte
Chanchaiworawit, Krittapas
Chen, Huaqing
Caballero-García, Maria D.
Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
Esamdin, Ali
Faba-Moreno, Jennifer
Farah, Joseph
Fernández-García, Emilio
Fu, Shaoyu
Fynbo, Johan P. U.
Gassert, Julius
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pérez-García, Ignacio
Graham, Matthew
Gritsevich, Maria
Gruen, Daniel
Guziy, Sergiy
Howell, D. Andrew
He, Linbo
Hu, Jingwei
Hu, You-Dong
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Jaims, Joahan Castaneda
Jiang, Ji-An
Jiang, Ning
Jiang, Shuaijiao
Liang, Runduo
Ling, Zhixing
Liu, Jialian
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Masci, Frank J.
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Noysena, Kanthanakorn
Pandey, Shashi B.
Ni, Kangrui
Palmese, Antonella
Peng, Han-Long
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Rose, Sam
Rusholme, Ben
Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén
Sevilla, Cassie
Smith, Roger
Song, Yujia
Sravan, Niharika
Stein, Robert
Tabor, Constantin
Terreran, Giacomo
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Vega, Pablo
Wang, Letian
Wang, Tinggu
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wu, Siyu
Wu, Xuefeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Xu, Yunfei
Yan, Shengyu
Yuan, Weimin
Zhang, Binbin
Zhang, Chen
Zhu, Zipei
Zuo, Xiaoxiong
Bhullar, Gursimran
contents We present the discovery of EP250827b/SN 2025wkm, an X-ray Flash (XRF) discovered by the Einstein Probe (EP), accompanied by a broad-line Type Ic supernova (SN Ic-BL) at $z = 0.1194$. EP250827b possesses a prompt X-ray luminosity of $\sim 10^{45} \, \rm{erg \, s^{-1}}$, lasts over 1000 seconds, and has a peak energy $E_{\rm{p}} < 1.5$ keV at 90\% confidence. SN 2025wkm possesses a double-peaked optical light curve (LC), though its bolometric luminosity plateaus after its initial peak for $\sim 20$ days, consistent with a central engine injecting additional energy into the explosion. Its spectrum transitions from a blue to red continuum with clear blueshifted broad absorption features consistent with a SN Ic-BL classification. We do not detect any transient radio emission and rule out the existence of an on-axis, energetic jet $\gtrsim 10^{50}~$erg assuming a typical LGRB circumburst constant density ($n \approx 10^{-3}$--$10^{-1}~{\rm cm}^{-3}$) and microphysical parameters ($ε_{\rm e} = 0.1$ and $ε_{\rm B} = 0.01$). In the model we invoke, the collapse gives rise to a long-lived magnetar, potentially surrounded by an accretion disk. Magnetically--driven winds from the magnetar and the disk mix together and break out with a velocity $\sim 0.35c$ and interact with an extended circumstellar medium with radius $\sim 10^{13}$ cm, generating X-ray breakout emission through non-thermal free-free processes. The disk outflows and magnetar winds power blackbody photospheric emission as they cool adiabatically and thermalize, producing the first SN peak. The spin-down luminosity of the magnetar and radioactive decay of $^{56}$Ni powers the late-time emission. We end by discussing the landscape of XRF-SNe within the context of EP's recent discoveries.
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spellingShingle EP250827b/SN 2025wkm: An X-ray Flash-Supernova Powered by a Central Engine and Circumstellar Interaction
Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P.
Li, Dongyue
Hall, Xander J.
Gottlieb, Ore
Schroeder, Genevieve
Liu, Heyang
O'Connor, Brendan
Jin, Chichuan
Kasliwal, Mansi
Ahumada, Tomás
Wu, Qinyu
Fryer, Christopher L.
Niblett, Annabelle E.
Xu, Dong
Ravasio, Maria Edvige
Daja, Grace
Li, Wenxiong
Anand, Shreya
Ho, Anna Y. Q.
Sun, Hui
Perley, Daniel A.
Yan, Lin
Burns, Eric
Cenko, S. Bradley
Sollerman, Jesper
Sarin, Nikhil
Piro, Anthony L.
Aryan, Amar
Miller, M. Coleman
An, Jie
An, Tao
Andrews, Moira
Augustin, Jule
Bellm, Eric C.
Bochenek, Aleksandra
Busmann, Malte
Chanchaiworawit, Krittapas
Chen, Huaqing
Caballero-García, Maria D.
Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.
Esamdin, Ali
Faba-Moreno, Jennifer
Farah, Joseph
Fernández-García, Emilio
Fu, Shaoyu
Fynbo, Johan P. U.
Gassert, Julius
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pérez-García, Ignacio
Graham, Matthew
Gritsevich, Maria
Gruen, Daniel
Guziy, Sergiy
Howell, D. Andrew
He, Linbo
Hu, Jingwei
Hu, You-Dong
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Jaims, Joahan Castaneda
Jiang, Ji-An
Jiang, Ning
Jiang, Shuaijiao
Liang, Runduo
Ling, Zhixing
Liu, Jialian
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Masci, Frank J.
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Noysena, Kanthanakorn
Pandey, Shashi B.
Ni, Kangrui
Palmese, Antonella
Peng, Han-Long
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Rose, Sam
Rusholme, Ben
Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén
Sevilla, Cassie
Smith, Roger
Song, Yujia
Sravan, Niharika
Stein, Robert
Tabor, Constantin
Terreran, Giacomo
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Vega, Pablo
Wang, Letian
Wang, Tinggu
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wu, Siyu
Wu, Xuefeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Xu, Yunfei
Yan, Shengyu
Yuan, Weimin
Zhang, Binbin
Zhang, Chen
Zhu, Zipei
Zuo, Xiaoxiong
Bhullar, Gursimran
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We present the discovery of EP250827b/SN 2025wkm, an X-ray Flash (XRF) discovered by the Einstein Probe (EP), accompanied by a broad-line Type Ic supernova (SN Ic-BL) at $z = 0.1194$. EP250827b possesses a prompt X-ray luminosity of $\sim 10^{45} \, \rm{erg \, s^{-1}}$, lasts over 1000 seconds, and has a peak energy $E_{\rm{p}} < 1.5$ keV at 90\% confidence. SN 2025wkm possesses a double-peaked optical light curve (LC), though its bolometric luminosity plateaus after its initial peak for $\sim 20$ days, consistent with a central engine injecting additional energy into the explosion. Its spectrum transitions from a blue to red continuum with clear blueshifted broad absorption features consistent with a SN Ic-BL classification. We do not detect any transient radio emission and rule out the existence of an on-axis, energetic jet $\gtrsim 10^{50}~$erg assuming a typical LGRB circumburst constant density ($n \approx 10^{-3}$--$10^{-1}~{\rm cm}^{-3}$) and microphysical parameters ($ε_{\rm e} = 0.1$ and $ε_{\rm B} = 0.01$). In the model we invoke, the collapse gives rise to a long-lived magnetar, potentially surrounded by an accretion disk. Magnetically--driven winds from the magnetar and the disk mix together and break out with a velocity $\sim 0.35c$ and interact with an extended circumstellar medium with radius $\sim 10^{13}$ cm, generating X-ray breakout emission through non-thermal free-free processes. The disk outflows and magnetar winds power blackbody photospheric emission as they cool adiabatically and thermalize, producing the first SN peak. The spin-down luminosity of the magnetar and radioactive decay of $^{56}$Ni powers the late-time emission. We end by discussing the landscape of XRF-SNe within the context of EP's recent discoveries.
title EP250827b/SN 2025wkm: An X-ray Flash-Supernova Powered by a Central Engine and Circumstellar Interaction
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10239