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The supernova of the MAGIC GRB190114C

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-03-14 v1

Abstract

We observed GRB190114C (redshift z = 0.4245), the first GRB ever detected at TeV energies, at optical and near-infrared wavelengths with several ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, with the primary goal of studying its underlying supernova, SN2019jrj. The monitoring spanned the time interval between 1.3 and 370 days after the burst, in the observer frame. We find that the afterglow emission can be modelled with a forward shock propagating in a uniform medium modified by time-variable extinction along the line of sight. A jet break could be present after 7 rest-frame days, and accordingly the maximum luminosity of the underlying SN ranges between that of stripped-envelope corecollapse supernovae (SNe) of intermediate luminosity, and that of the luminous GRB-associated SN2013dx. The observed spectral absorption lines of SN2019jrj are not as broad as in classical GRB-SNe, and are rather more similar to those of less-luminous core-collapse SNe. Taking the broad-lined stripped-envelope core-collapse SN2004aw as an analogue, we tentatively derive the basic physical properties of SN2019jrj. We discuss the possibility that a fraction of the TeV emission of this source might have had a hadronic origin and estimate the expected high-energy neutrino detection level with IceCube.

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@article{arxiv.2112.04759,
  title  = {The supernova of the MAGIC GRB190114C},
  author = {A. Melandri and L. Izzo and E. Pian and D. B. Malesani and M. Della Valle and A. Rossi and P. D'Avanzo and D. Guetta and P. A. Mazzali and S. Benetti and N. Masetti and E. Palazzi and S. Savaglio and L. Amati and L. A. Antonelli and C. Ashall and M. G. Bernardini and S. Campana and R. Carini and S. Covino and V. D'Elia and A. de Ugarte Postigo and M. De Pasquale and A. V. Filippenko and A. S. Fruchter and J. P. U. Fynbo and A. Giunta and D. H. Hartmann and P. Jakobsson and J. Japelj and P. G. Jonker and D. A. Kann and G. P. Lamb and A. J. Levan and A. Martin-Carrillo and P. Moller and S. Piranomonte and G. Pugliese and R. Salvaterra and S. Schulze and R. L. C. Starling and L. Stella and G. Tagliaferri and N. Tanvir and D. Watson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04759},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A