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GRB 210121A: A Typical Fireball Burst Detected by Two Small Missions

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-12-09 v3

Abstract

The Chinese CubeSat Mission, Gamma Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID), recently detected its first gamma-ray burst, GRB 210121A, which was jointly observed by the Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM). This burst is confirmed by several other missions, including \fermi and \textit{Insight}-HXMT. We combined multi-mission observational data and performed a comprehensive analysis of the burst's temporal and spectral properties. Our results show that the burst is relatively special in its high peak energy, thermal-like low energy indices, and large fluence. By putting it to the EpE_{\rm p}-Eγ,isoE_{\rm\gamma, iso} relation diagram with assumed distance, we found this burst can be constrained at the redshift range of [0.3,3.0]. The thermal spectral component is also confirmed by the direct fit of the physical models to the observed spectra. Interestingly, the physical photosphere model also constrained a redshift of zz\sim 0.3 for this burst, which help us to identify a host galaxy candidate at such a distance within the location error box. Assuming the host galaxy is real, we found the burst can be best explained by the photosphere emission of a typical fireball with an initial radius of r0r_0\sim 3.2 ×107\times 10^7 cm.

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@article{arxiv.2107.10452,
  title  = {GRB 210121A: A Typical Fireball Burst Detected by Two Small Missions},
  author = {Xiangyu Ivy Wang and Xutao Zheng and Shuo Xiao and Jun Yang and Zi-Ke Liu and Yu-Han Yang and Jin-Hang Zou and Bin-Bin Zhang and Ming Zeng and Shao-Lin Xiong and Hua Feng and Xin-Ying Song and Jiaxing Wen and Dacheng Xu and Guo-Yin Chen and Yang Ni and Yu-Xuan Wu and Zi-Jian Zhang and Ce Cai and Jirong Cang and Yun-Wei Deng and Huaizhong Gao and De-Feng Kong and Yue Huang and Cheng-kui Li and Hong Li and Xiao-Bo Li and En-Wei Liang and Lin Lin and Yihui Liu and Xiangyun Long and Dian Lu and Qi Luo and Yong-Chang Ma and Yan-Zhi Meng and Wen-Xi Peng and Rui Qiao and Li-Ming Song and Yang Tian and Pei-Yuan Wang and Ping Wang and Xiang-Gao Wang and Sheng Xu and Dongxin Yang and Yi-Han Yin and Weihe Zeng and Zhi Zeng and Ting-Jun Zhang and Yuchong Zhang and Zhao Zhang and Zhen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.10452},
  year   = {2021}
}

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ApJ accpeted; 12 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables