EP241113a: dissipative photospheric emission from a dirty fireball

arXiv:2608.03043 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

Cui-Yuan Dai, Xiang-Yu Wang, Bing Zhang

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-04

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures; published in ApJL

Journal ref: ApJL 1006, L62 (2026)

DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae8ba8

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

Terminology

• Amati Relation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Einstein Probe — 3× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entrainment — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• An energetic dirty fireball detected in soft X-rays
• From Internal Collision to Photon Escape: First-Principles Modeling of Radiation-Mediated Shocks in Gamma-Ray Burst Photospheres

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