2025ApJS..277...24A

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2025ApJS..277...24A - Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 277, 24 (2025/March-0)

GRB 221009A: The B.O.A.T. Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays.

AXELSSON M., AJELLO M., ARIMOTO M., BALDINI L., BALLET J., BARING M.G., BARTOLINI C., BASTIERI D., BECERRA GONZALEZ J., BELLAZZINI R., BERENJI B., BISSALDI E., BLANDFORD R.D., BONINO R., BRUEL P., BUSON S., CAMERON R.A., CAPUTO R., CARAVEO P.A., CAVAZZUTI E., CHEUNG C.C., CHIARO G., CIBRARIO N., CIPRINI S., COZZOLONGO G., CRISTARELLA ORESTANO P., CRNOGORCEVIC M., CUOCO A., CUTINI S., D'AMMANDO F., DE GAETANO S., DI LALLA N., DINESH A., DI TRIA R., DI VENERE L., DOMINGUEZ A., FEGAN S.J., FERRARA E.C., FIORI A., FRANCKOWIAK A., FUKAZAWA Y., FUNK S., FUSCO P., GALANTI G., GARGANO F., GASBARRA C., GERMANI S., GIACCHINO F., GIGLIETTO N., GILIBERTI M., GILL R., GIORDANO F., GIROLETTI M., GRANOT J., GREEN D., GRENIER I.A., GUIRIEC S., GUSTAFSSON M., HASHIZUME M., HAYS E., HEWITT J.W., HORAN D., KAYANOKI T., KUSS M., LAVIRON A., LI J., LIODAKIS I., LONGO F., LOPARCO F., LORUSSO L., LOTT B., LOVELLETTE M.N., LUBRANO P., MALDERA S., MALYSHEV D., MANFREDA A., MARTI-DEVESA G., MARTINELLI R., MARTINEZ CASTELLANOS I., MAZZIOTTA M.N., McENERY J.E., MEREU I., MEYER M., MICHELSON P.F., MIRABAL N., MITTHUMSIRI W., MIZUNO T., MONTI-GUARNIERI P., MONZANI M.E., MORISHITA T., MORSELLI A., MOSKALENKO I.V., NEGRO M., NIWA R., OMODEI N., ORIENTI M., ORLANDO E., PANEQUE D., PANZARINI G., PERSIC M., PESCE-ROLLINS M., PETROSIAN V., PILLERA R., PIRON F., PORTER T.A., PRINCIPE G., RACUSIN J.L., RAINO S., RANDO R., RANI B., RAZZANO M., RAZZAQUE S., REIMER A., REIMER O., RYDE F., SANCHEZ-CONDE M., SAZ PARKINSON P.M., SERINI D., SGRO C., SHARMA V., SISKIND E.J., SPANDRE G., SPINELLI P., SUSON D.J., TAJIMA H., TAK D., THAYER J.B., TORRES D.F., VALVERDE J., ZAHARIJAS G. (The Fermi LAT Collaboration), LESAGE S., BRIGGS M.S., BURNS E., BALA S., BHAT P.N., CLEVELAND W.H., DALESSI S., DE BARRA C., GIBBY M., GILES M.M., HAMBURG R., HRISTOV B.A., KOCEVSKI D., HUI C.M., MAILYAN B., MALACARIA C., McBREEN S., POOLAKKIL S., ROBERTS O.J., SCOTTON L., VERES P., VON KIENLIN A., WILSON-HODGE C.A., WOOD J. (The Fermi GBM Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission above 30 MeV detected by the LAT preceded, by 1 s, the low-energy (<10 MeV) pulse that triggered the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM), as has been observed in other GRBs. The prompt phase of GRB 221009A lasted a few hundred seconds. It was so bright that we identify a bad time interval of 64 s caused by the extremely high flux of hard X-rays and soft gamma rays, during which the event reconstruction efficiency was poor and the dead time fraction quite high. The late-time emission decayed as a power law, but the extrapolation of the late-time emission during the first 450 s suggests that the afterglow started during the prompt emission. We also found that high-energy events observed by the LAT are incompatible with synchrotron origin, and, during the prompt emission, are more likely related to an extra component identified as synchrotron self-Compton (SSC). A remarkable 400 GeV photon, detected by the LAT 33 ks after the GBM trigger and directionally consistent with the location of GRB 221009A, is hard to explain as a product of SSC or TeV electromagnetic cascades, and the process responsible for its origin is uncertain. Because of its proximity and energetic nature, GRB 221009A is an extremely rare event.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Gamma-ray bursts - High energy astrophysics - Gamma-ray astronomy

Simbad objects: 7

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Number of rows : 7
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 180720B gB 00 02 06.99 -02 55 07.8           ~ 215 0
2 GRB 201216C gB 01 05 28.88 +16 30 58.0           ~ 89 0
3 SN 2019oyw SN* 02 58 10.510 -08 57 27.20           ~ 218 0
4 GRB 190114C gB 03 38 01.18 -26 56 47.8           ~ 343 0
5 SN 2013cq SN* 11 32 32.84 +27 41 56.2           SNIc 613 1
6 GRB 221009A gB 19 13 03.85 +19 46 22.7           ~ 433 0
7 Fermi bn090510016 G 22 14 12.6230 -26 34 58.550           ~ 548 0

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