Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched from the collapsing cores of dying massive stars. They are characterized by an initial phase of bright and highly variable radiation in the kiloelectron volt-to-mega electronvoltband, which is probably produced within the jet and lasts from milliseconds to minutes, known as the prompt emission(1,2). Subsequently, the interaction of the jet with the surrounding medium generates shock waves that are responsible for the afterglow emission, which lasts from days to months and occurs over a broad energy range from the radio to the gigaelectronvolt bands(1-6). The afterglow emission is generally well explained as synchrotron radiation emitted by electrons accelerated by the external shock(7-9). Recently, intense long-lasting emission between 0.2 and 1 teraelectronvolts was observed from GRB 190114C(10,11). Here we report multifrequency observations of GRB 190114C, and study the evolution in time of the GRB emission across 17 orders of magnitude in energy, from 5 x 10(-6) to 10(12) electronvolts. We find that the broadband spectral energy distribution is double-peaked, with the teraelectronvolt emission constituting a distinct spectral component with power comparable to the synchrotron component. This component is associated with the afterglow and is satisfactorily explained by inverse Compton up-scattering of synchrotron photons by high-energy electrons. We find that the conditions required to account for the observed teraelectronvolt component are typical for GRBs, supporting the possibility that inverse Compton emission is commonly produced in GRBs.
Journal article
Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long gamma-ray burst
Nature, Vol.575(7783), pp.459-463
20/Nov/2019
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- Title
- Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long gamma-ray burst
- Creators
- Ilan Manulis (null) - The Weizmann Institute of ScienceS. Schulze (null) - 972WIS_INST___88O. Yaron (null) - 972WIS_INST___88
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature, Vol.575(7783), pp.459-463; 20/Nov/2019
- Number of pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1754-6
- Grant note
- We thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. We acknowledge financial support by the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2017-87055-C2-2-P, FPA201790566REDC), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS and MEXT, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018 and the Academy of Finland grant number 320045. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia ‘Severo Ochoa’ through grants SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548 and Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’ MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ. L. Nava acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 664931. E. Moretti acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 665919. This study used the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2018.A.00020.T, ADS/JAO.ALMA#2018.1.01410.T. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), MOST and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. C.C.T., A.d.U.P. and D.A.K. acknowledge support from the Spanish research project AYA2017-89384-P. C.C.T and A.d.U.P. acknowledge support from funding associated with Ramón y Cajal fellowships (RyC-2012-09984 and RyC-2012-09975). D.A.K. acknowledges support from funding associated with Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowships (IJCI-2015-26153). The JCMT is operated by the East Asian Observatory on behalf of The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, and Center for Astronomical Mega-Science (as well as the National Key R&D Program of China via grant number 2017YFA0402700). Additional funding support is provided by the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the UK and participating universities in the UK and Canada. The JCMT data reported here were obtained under project M18BP040 (principal investigator D.A.P.). We thank M. Rawlings, K. Silva, S. Urquart and the JCMT staff for support for these observations. The Liverpool Telescope, located on the island of La Palma, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, is operated by Liverpool John Moores University with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. G.E.A. is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (project number DE180100346) and J.C.A.M.-J. is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project number FT140101082) funded by the Australian Government. Support for the German contribution to GBM was provided by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) via the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) under grant number 50 QV 0301. The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) coauthors acknowledge NASA funding from cooperative agreement NNM11AA01A. C.A.W.-H. and C.M.H. acknowledge NASA funding through the Fermi-GBM project. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT, as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy (DOE) in the USA; the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan; and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. We acknowledge additional support for science analysis during the operations phase from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work was performed in part under DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. Part of the funding for GROND (both hardware and personnel) was granted from the Leibniz-Prize to G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). Swift data were retrieved from the Swift archive at HEASARC/NASA-GSFC and from the UK Swift Science Data Centre. Support for Swift in the UK is provided by the UK Space Agency. This work is based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA. This work is partially based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme 199.D-0143. The work is partly based on observations made with the GTC, installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, in the island of La Palma. This work is partially based on observations made with the NOT (programme 58-502), operated by the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. This work is partially based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programme 102.D-0662. This work is partially based on observations collected through the ESO programme 199.D-0143 ePESSTO. M. Gromadzki is supported by the Polish NCN MAESTRO grant 2014/14/A/ST9/00121. M.N. is supported by a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship M.G.B., S. Campana, A. Melandri and P.D’A. acknowledge ASI grant I/004/11/3. S. Campana acknowledges support from agreement ASI-INAF number 2017-14-H.0. S.J.S. acknowledges funding from STFC grant ST/P000312/1. N.P.M.K. acknowledges support by the UK Space Agency under grant ST/P002323/1 and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council under grant ST/N00811/1. L.P. and S. Lotti acknowledge partial support from agreement ASI-INAF number 2017-14-H.0. A.F.V. acknowledges RFBR 18-29-21030 for support. A.J.C.-T. acknowledges support from the Junta de Andalucía (Project P07-TIC-03094) and from the Spanish Ministry Projects AYA2012-39727-C03-01 and 2015-71718R. K. Misra acknowledges support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) for the WISTEMM fellowship and Departnment of Physics, UC Davis, where a part of this work was carried out. S.B.P. and K. Misra acknowledge BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) grant DST/IMRCD/BRICS/Pilotcall/ProFCheap/2017(G) for this work. M.J.M. acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre, Poland, through grant 2018/30/E/ST9/00208. V.J. and L.R. acknowledge support from grant EMR/2016/007127 from the Department of Science and Technology, India. K. Maguire acknowledges support from H2020 through an ERC starting grant (758638). L.I. acknowledges M. Della Valle for support in the operation of the telescope.
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