Diverse Morphologies of GRB X-Ray Plateaus within a Common Magnetar Framework

arXiv:2607.23114 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-25

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Submitted. Comments are welcome

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Monte Carlo Analysis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Observational Selection Effects — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Gamma-ray burst afterglows and evolution of postburst fireballs with energy injection from strongly magnetic millisecond pulsars
• Universal scaling between magnetar field and initial spin period for short gamma ray bursts
• Multilevel and hierarchical Bayesian modeling of cosmic populations
• Short gamma-ray burst progenitors have short delay times
• Reassessing high-energy emission correlations in gamma-ray bursts using a large, homogeneous sample of X-ray afterglows
• Fast Radio Bursts Trace Cosmic Star Formation with Little Delay
• Magnetar-powered long gamma-ray bursts and connection to superluminous supernovae and fast radio bursts

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