Search for Very-high-energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using the First 18 Months of Data from the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory

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作者
Alfaro, R. [1 ]
Alvarez, C. [2 ]
Alvarez, J. D. [3 ]
Arceo, R. [2 ]
Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C. [3 ]
Avila Rojas, D. [1 ]
Solares, H. A. Ayala [4 ]
Barber, A. S. [5 ]
Bautista-Elivar, N. [6 ]
Becerril, A. [1 ]
Belmont-Moreno, E. [1 ]
BenZvi, S. Y. [7 ]
Bernal, A. [8 ]
Braun, J. [9 ]
Brisbois, C. [4 ]
Caballero-Mora, K. S. [2 ]
Capistran, T. [10 ]
Carraminana, A. [10 ]
Casanova, S. [11 ]
Castillo, M. [3 ]
Cotti, U. [3 ]
Cotzomi, J. [12 ]
Coutino deleon, S. [10 ]
De la Fuente, E. [13 ]
De Leon, C. [12 ]
DeYoung, T. [14 ]
Diaz Hernandez, R. [10 ]
Dingus, B. L. [15 ]
DuVernois, M. A. [9 ]
Diaz-Velez, J. C. [13 ]
Ellsworth, R. W. [16 ]
Engel, K. [17 ]
Fiorino, D. W. [17 ]
Fraija, N. [8 ]
Garcia-Gonzalez, J. A. [1 ]
Garfias, F. [8 ]
Gerhardt, M. [4 ]
Gonzalez Munoz, A. [1 ]
Gonzalez, M. M. [8 ]
Goodman, J. A. [17 ]
Hampel-Arias, Z. [9 ]
Harding, J. P. [15 ]
Hernandez-Almada, A. [1 ]
Hernandez, S. [1 ]
Hona, B. [4 ]
Hui, C. M. [18 ]
Huntemeyer, P. [4 ]
Iriarte, A. [8 ]
Jardin-Blicq, A. [19 ]
Joshi, V. [19 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[2] Univ Autonoma Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
[3] Univ Michoacana, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
[4] Michigan Technol Univ, Dept Phys, Houghton, MI 49931 USA
[5] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT USA
[6] Univ Politecn Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico
[7] Univ Rochester, Dept Phys & Astron, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[8] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Astron, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[9] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Dept Phys, Madison, WI USA
[10] Inst Nacl Astrofis Opt & Electr, Puebla, Mexico
[11] Polskiej Akad Nauk, Inst Fizyki Jadrowej Henryka Niewodniczanskiego, Krakow, Poland
[12] Benemerita Univ Autonoma Puebla, Fac Ciencias Fis Matemat, Puebla, Mexico
[13] Univ Guadalajara, Ctr Univ Ciencias Exactas & Ingn, Dept Fis, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
[14] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[15] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Phys, Los Alamos, NM USA
[16] George Mason Univ, Sch Phys Astron & Computat Sci, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[17] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[18] NASA, Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Astrophys Off, Huntsville, AL USA
[19] Max Planck Inst Nucl Phys, Heidelberg, Germany
[20] Univ New Mexico, Dept Phys & Astron, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[21] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[22] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[23] Inst Politecn Nacl, Ctr Invest Computac, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[24] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, 104 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[25] IPN, Ctr Invest & Estudios Avanzados, Dept Phys, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[26] Univ Autonoma Estado Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico
[27] 44 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ciencias Nucl, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[28] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[29] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
gamma-ray burst: general; gamma rays: general; SPECTRAL COMPONENT; GRB; 090510; FERMI OBSERVATIONS; HESS OBSERVATIONS; PROMPT; TELESCOPE; AFTERGLOW; MONITOR; 130427A; SHOCKS;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/aa756f
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory is an extensive air shower detector operating in central Mexico that has recently completed its first two years of full operations. If for a burst like GRB 130427A at a redshift of 0.34 and a high-energy component following a power law with index 1.66, the high-energy component is extended to higher energies with no cutoff other than that from extragalactic background light attenuation, HAWC would observe gamma-rays with a peak energy of similar to 300. GeV. This paper reports the results of HAWC observations of 64 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by Swift and Fermi, including 3 GRBs that were also detected by the Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). An ON/OFF analysis method is employed, searching on the timescale given by the observed light curve at keV-MeV energies and also on extended timescales. For all GRBs and timescales, no statistically significant excess of counts is found and upper limits on the number of gamma-rays and the gamma-ray flux are calculated. GRB. 170206A, the third brightest short GRB detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi satellite (Fermi-GBM) and also detected by the LAT, occurred very close to zenith. The LAT measurements can neither exclude the presence of a synchrotron self-Compton component nor constrain its spectrum. Instead, the HAWC upper limits constrain the expected cutoff in an additional high-energy component to be less than 100 GeV for reasonable assumptions about the energetics and redshift of the burst.
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