Evidence of Minijet Emission in a Large Emission Zone from a Magnetically Dominated Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

Evidence of Minijet Emission in a Large Emission Zone from a Magnetically Dominated Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

The second brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) in history, GRB 230307A, provides an ideal laboratory to study the mechanism of GRB prompt emission thanks to its extraordinarily high photon statistics and its single-episode activity. Here we demonstrate that the rapidly variable components of its prompt...

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Main Authors: S.-X. Yi, C.-W. Wang, X. Shao, R. Moradi, H. Gao, B. Zhang, S.-L. Xiong, S.-N. Zhang, W.-J. Tan, J.-C. Liu, W.-C. Xue, Y.-Q. Zhang, C. Zheng, Y. Wang, P. Zhang, Z.-H. An, C. Cai, P.-Y. Feng, K. Gong, D.-Y. Guo, Y. Huang, B. Li, X.-B. Li, X.-Q. Li, X.-J. Liu, Y.-Q. Liu, X. Ma, W.-X. Peng, R. Qiao, L.-M. Song, J. Wang, P. Wang, X.-Y. Wen, S. Xiao, Y.-B. Xu, S. Yang, Q.-B. Yi, D.-L. Zhang, F. Zhang, H.-M. Zhang, J.-P. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X.-Y. Zhao, Y. Zhao, S.-J. Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Gamma-ray bursters
Gamma-ray transient sources
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adcf98
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Summary:The second brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) in history, GRB 230307A, provides an ideal laboratory to study the mechanism of GRB prompt emission thanks to its extraordinarily high photon statistics and its single-episode activity. Here we demonstrate that the rapidly variable components of its prompt emission compose an overall broad single pulse-like profile. Although these individual rapid components are aligned in time across all energy bands, this overall profile conspires to show a well-defined energy-dependent behavior that is typically seen in single GRB pulses. Such a feature demonstrates that the prompt emission of this burst is from many individual emitting units that are casually linked in a emission site at a large distance from the central engine. Such a scenario is in natural consistency with the internal-collision-induced magnetic reconnection and turbulence framework, which invokes many minijets due to local magnetic reconnection that constantly appear and disappear in a global magnetically dominated jet.
ISSN:1538-4357

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