2020ApJ...905..105A


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2020ApJ...905..105A - Astrophys. J., 905, 105-105 (2020/December-3)

Probing particle acceleration through broadband early afterglow emission of MAGIC gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C.

ASANO K., MURASE K. and TOMA K.

Abstract (from CDS):

Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cerenkov Telescopes (MAGIC) detected the gamma-ray afterglow of GRB 190114C, which can constrain microscopic parameters of the shock-heated plasma emitting non-thermal emission. Focusing on the early afterglow of this event, we numerically simulate the spectrum and multi-wavelength light curves with constant and wind-like circumstellar medium using a time-dependent code. Our results show that the electron acceleration timescale at the highest energies is likely shorter than 20 times the gyroperiod to reproduce the GeV gamma-ray flux and its spectral index reported by Fermi. This gives an interesting constraint on the acceleration efficiency for Weibel-mediated shocks. We also constrain the number fraction of non-thermal electrons fe, and the temperature of the thermal electrons. The early optical emission can be explained by the thermal synchrotron emission with fe <= 0.01. On the other hand, the X-ray light curves restrict efficient energy transfer from protons to the thermal electrons, and fe ∼ 1 is required if the energy fraction of the thermal electrons is larger than ∼10%. The parameter constraints obtained in this work give important clues to probing plasma physics with relativistic shocks.

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Journal keyword(s): Gamma-ray bursts - Non-thermal radiation sources - Shocks

Simbad objects: 3

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Number of rows : 3
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 GRB 190114C gB 03 38 01.18 -26 56 47.8           ~ 343 0
2 SN 2017iuk SN* 11 09 39.49 -12 35 18.7           SNII 210 0
3 SN 2013cq SN* 11 32 32.84 +27 41 56.2           SNIc 613 1

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