The Possibility of Modeling the Very High Energy Afterglow of GRB 221009A in a Wind Environment

In this paper, we model the dynamics and radiation physics of the rarity event GRB 221009A afterglow in detail. By introducing a top-hat jet that propagates in an environment dominated by stellar winds, we explain the publicly available observations of afterglow associated with GRB 221009A over the...

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2023-04, Vol.947 (2), p.53
Main Authors: Ren, Jia, Wang, Yun, Zhang, Lu-Lu, Dai, Zi-Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Afterglows
Astrophysics
Broadband
Environment models
Gamma ray bursts
High energy astrophysics
Mathematical models
Modelling
Parameters
Radiation
Spectral energy distribution
Stellar winds
Synchrotrons
Wind
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Summary:In this paper, we model the dynamics and radiation physics of the rarity event GRB 221009A afterglow in detail. By introducing a top-hat jet that propagates in an environment dominated by stellar winds, we explain the publicly available observations of afterglow associated with GRB 221009A over the first week. It is predicted that GRB 221009A emits a luminous very high energy afterglow based on the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process in our model. We show the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis results of GRB 221009A and find that the SSC radiation component of GRB 221009A is very bright in the 0.1–10 TeV band. The integrated SED shows that the SSC emission in the TeV band has detection sensitivity significantly higher than that of LHASSO, MAGIC, and CTA. However, since the release of further observations, deviations from the standard wind environment model have gradually shown up in data. For example, the late-time multiband afterglow cannot be consistently explained under the standard wind environment scenario. It may be necessary to consider modeling with a structured jet with complex geometry or a partial revision of the standard model. Furthermore, we find that the inclusion of GeV observations could break the degeneracy between model parameters, highlighting the significance of high-energy observations in determining accurate parameters for GRB afterglows.
ISSN:0004-637X
1538-4357
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/acc57d