[vsnet-grb-info 21636] GRB190114C, Long follow up urged
GCN Circulars
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Wed Jan 16 20:15:20 JST 2019
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 23735
SUBJECT: GRB190114C, Long follow up urged
DATE: 19/01/16 11:14:09 GMT
FROM: Arnon Dar at Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech <arnon at physics.technion.ac.il>
S. Dado and A. Dar report:
A long follow up of the afterglow of the very bright GRB190114C (Groop
et al. GCN 23688; Hamburg et al. GCN 23707) like that of GRB130427A
(De Pasquale et al. MNRAS 462 (2016) 1111) may provide another critical
test of GRB theories. In the Cannonball (CB) model, the X-ray afterglow
of very bright SN-GRBs is expected to decay like a single power-law in
time and in frequency, Fnu ~ t^{-alpha} nu^{-beta}, where for a constant
density ISM the temporal and spectral indices satisfy alpha=beta+1/2 and
the "missing break" is hidden under the prompt emission (Dado & Dar, PRD
94 (2016) 3007). The current values alpha=1.34+/-0.01 and beta=0.82+/-0.12,
reported for GRB190114C in the Swift XRT light curve repository (Evans et
al. 2009) seem to satisfy well the above CB model closure relation, which
suggests an SN-GRB association similar to SN2013cq-GRB130427A.
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