Abstract

ABSTRACT Multiwavelength observation of the gamma-ray burst, GRB 190114C, opens a new window for studying the emission mechanism of GRB afterglows. Its very high energy (VHE; ≳ 100 GeV) detection has motivated an inverse Compton interpretation for the emission, but this has not been tested. Here, we revisit the early afterglow emission from 68 to 180 s and perform the modelling likelihood analysis with the keV to TeV data sets. We compute for the first time the statistical preference in the combined synchrotron (syn) and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model over the syn-only model. In agreement with earlier analyses, between 68 and 110 s an unstable preference for the SSC model can be found, which can also be explained by systematic cross-calibration effect between the included instruments. We conclude that there is no stable statistical preference for one of the two models.

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