Constraining Circum-burst Environments of GRBs with Jet Break Features in X-ray Afterglows

arXiv:2608.07060 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Si-Ji Xin, Yu-Qi Zhou, Sheng-Jin Sun, Cheng-Jie Sun, Shuang-Xi Yi, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Yu-Peng Yang, Yan-Kun Qu, Fa-Yin Wang

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 28 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables

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

Terminology

• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• alpha — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Jets and Gamma-Ray Burst Unification Schemes

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