CONSTRAINTS ON VERY HIGH ENERGY EMISSION FROM GRB 130427A

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作者
Aliu, E. [1 ]
Aune, T. [2 ]
Barnacka, A. [3 ]
Beilicke, M. [4 ]
Benbow, W. [5 ]
Berger, K. [6 ,7 ]
Biteau, J. [8 ,9 ]
Buckley, J. H. [4 ]
Bugaev, V. [4 ]
Byrum, K. [10 ]
Cardenzana, J. V. [11 ]
Cerruti, M. [5 ]
Chen, X. [12 ,13 ]
Ciupik, L. [14 ]
Connaughton, V. [15 ]
Cui, W. [16 ]
Dickinson, H. J. [11 ]
Eisch, J. D. [11 ]
Errando, M. [1 ]
Falcone, A. [17 ]
Federici, S. [12 ,13 ]
Feng, Q. [16 ]
Finley, J. P. [16 ]
Fleischhack, H. [13 ]
Fortin, P. [5 ]
Fortson, L. [18 ]
Furniss, A. [8 ,9 ]
Galante, N. [5 ]
Gillanders, G. H. [19 ]
Griffin, S. [20 ]
Griffiths, S. T. [21 ]
Grube, J. [14 ]
Gyuk, G. [14 ]
Hakansson, N. [12 ]
Hanna, D. [20 ]
Holder, J. [6 ,7 ]
Hughes, G. [13 ]
Humensky, T. B. [22 ]
Johnson, C. A. [8 ,9 ]
Kaaret, P. [21 ]
Kar, P. [23 ]
Kertzman, M. [24 ]
Khassen, Y. [25 ]
Kieda, D. [23 ]
Krawczynski, H. [4 ]
Krennrich, F. [11 ]
Lang, M. J. [19 ]
Madhavan, A. S. [11 ]
Maier, G. [13 ]
McArthur, S. [26 ]
机构
[1] Columbia Univ Barnard Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[3] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[4] Washington Univ, Dept Phys, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[5] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observ, Amado, AZ 85645 USA
[6] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[7] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[8] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[9] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[10] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[11] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[12] Univ Potsdam, Inst Phys & Astron, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[13] DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[14] Adler Planetarium & Astron Museum, Dept Astron, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
[15] Univ Alabama, Ctr Space Plasma & Aeron Res, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA
[16] Purdue Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[17] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[18] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[19] Natl Univ Ireland Galway, Sch Phys, Galway, Ireland
[20] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[21] Univ Iowa, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[22] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[23] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[24] Depauw Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Greencastle, IN 46135 USA
[25] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland
[26] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[27] Univ Chicago, Kavli Inst Cosmol Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[28] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[29] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[30] Anderson Univ, Dept Phys, Anderson, IN 46012 USA
[31] Galway Mayo Inst Technol, Dept Life & Phys Sci, Galway, Ireland
[32] Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Dept Phys, San Luis Obispo, CA 94307 USA
[33] Cork Inst Technol, Dept Appl Phys & Instrumentat, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
[34] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[35] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[36] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[37] George Washington Univ, Dept Phys, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[38] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[39] Penn State Univ, Ctr Particle & Gravitat Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
基金
爱尔兰科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 130427A); GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; COMPONENT; AFTERGLOWS; SWIFT; TELESCOPE; SPECTRA; MISSION; LIMITS; TEV;
D O I
10.1088/2041-8205/795/1/L3
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Prompt emission from the very fluent and nearby (z = 0.34) gamma-ray burst GRB130427A was detected by several orbiting telescopes and by ground-based, wide-field-of-view optical transient monitors. Apart from the intensity and proximity of this GRB, it is exceptional due to the extremely long-lived high-energy (100 MeV to 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission, which was detected by the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope for similar to 70 ks after the initial burst. The persistent, hard-spectrum, high-energy emission suggests that the highest-energy gamma rays may have been produced via synchrotron self-Compton processes though there is also evidence that the high-energy emission may instead be an extension of the synchrotron spectrum. VERITAS, a ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array, began follow-up observations of GRB130427A similar to 71 ks (similar to 20 hr) after the onset of the burst. The GRB was not detected with VERITAS; however, the high elevation of the observations, coupled with the low redshift of the GRB, make VERITAS a very sensitive probe of the emission from GRB130427A for E > 100 GeV. The non-detection and consequent upper limit derived place constraints on the synchrotron self-Compton model of high-energy gamma-ray emission from this burst.
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