51. Observation of a relatively low luminosity long duration GRB 201015A by the MAGIC telescopes
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Dominik Elsaesser, Razmik Mirzoyan, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Vitaly Neustroev, Damir Lelas, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Alexander Hahn, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, Dario Hrupec, Mitsunari Takahashi, Luca Tosti, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Valerio D'Elia, G. Maneva, Ana Babić, Michele Palatiello, Marine Pihet, Mosè Mariotti, Kazuma Ishio, Ievgen Vovk, Matteo Cerruti, Jordi Delgado, Yusuke Suda, Adrian Biland, Abelardo Moralejo, Yasushi Fukazawa, D. Dominis Prester, Lena Linhoff, Elisa Prandini, Yuki Iwamura, Kevin Schmidt, Carlo Vigorito, Francesco Longo, Stefano Truzzi, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Ivica Puljak, Jenni Jormanainen, Alice Donini, Satoshi Fukami, Davide Miceli, Saverio Lombardi, Daniel Morcuende, Davide Depaoli, Jose Luis Contreras, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Ashot Chilingarian, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Christian Fruck, Josep M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Andrea Rugliancich, Juan Cortina, Iva Šnidarić, Ramon J. García López, L. Maraschi, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Pratik Majumdar, Elina Lindfors, Pablo Peñil, M. I. Martínez, Masahiro Teshima, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Leonardo Di Venere, Daniel Mazin, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, Markus Garczarczyk, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Chiara Righi, Giacomo Bonnoli, Takashi Saito, P. G. Prada Moroni, Bernd Schleicher, Edgar Molina, Martin Will, Saša Mićanović, Junko Kushida, Lovro Pavletić, Jorge Otero-Santos, Lara Nava, Marie Karjalainen, Dominik Baack, Ryuji Takeishi, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Josefa González, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Ivana Batković, Manuela Mallamaci, Louis Antonelli, Yukiho Kobayashi, Elisa Bernardini, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Alessandro De Angelis, Stefano Covino, Thomas Schweizer, Seiya Nozaki, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Takeshi Nakamori, Vassil Verguilov, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Francesco Dazzi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Markus Gaug, Barbara De Lotto, Manuel Artero, Carolin Wunderlich, Camilla Maggio, Eduardo Colombo, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, Giovanni Ceribella, Tomislav Terzić, Santiago Ubach, Juan Abel Barrio, Tomohiko Oka, Narek Sahakyan, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Jelena Strišković, Kenta Terauchi, Ciro Bigongiari, Daniel Kerszberg, Kyoshi Nishijima, Marina Manganaro, Shunsuke Sakurai, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Victor A. Acciari, Elena Moretti, Julian Sitarek, Simona Paiano, Konstancja Satalecka, Alicia Fattorini, Michele Doro, Marc Ribó, Serena Loporchio, Moritz Hütten, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Daniela Hadasch, Roberto Carosi, Yoshiki Ohtani, Andrés Baquero, Massimo Persic, Stefano Menchiari, Alessandra Lamastra, Vincenzo Vitale, Lluis Font, Francesco Leone, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Jose Miguel Miranda, Paolo Da Vela, David H. Green, Marcel Strzys, Katsuaki Asano, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Sidika Merve Colak, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, Nikola Godinovic, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, John Hoang, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Giacomo D'Amico, Jarred Gershon Green, Cosimo Nigro, Sofia Ventura, Sargis Gasparyan, Alessio Berti, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Axel Arbet Engels, Tihomir Surić, Karl Mannheim, and Alicia López-Oramas
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Physics ,education.field_of_study ,High energy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Population ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Redshift ,Luminosity ,Supernova ,MAGIC (telescope) ,Gamma-ray burst ,education ,Short duration - Abstract
Starting from the first announcement of unequivocal detection of very high energy (VHE) emission from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) by the MAGIC telescopes (GRB 190114C), four additional detections of VHE emission from GRBs by ground-based telescopes were reported. These observations have revealed a new, energetic component that has become an additional probe to explore GRB physics. In order to deepen our understanding of the origin of this new component, and in general of the origin of radiation from GRBs, further observations by VHE instruments are crucial. In this work we report fast follow-up observations by the MAGIC telescopes of GRB 201015A, a GRB detected by the Swift/BAT. As measured by BAT, the prompt emission lasted 9.8 +/- 3.5 seconds, suggesting that this GRB belongs to the class of long events. This was later confirmed by optical observations, which allowed to measure the redshift (𝑧 = 0.42) and found the associated type Ic-BL supernova. Having a prompt isotropic-equivalent energy of 𝐸iso ∼10^{50} erg, this GRB is a relatively low energy event as compared to the population of long GRBs. Observations with the MAGIC telescopes started about 30 seconds after the GRB onset and were performed under good observational conditions. The accurate analysis of the MAGIC data reveals a strong hint of detection and implies a significant energy release in the TeV range, smaller but comparable with that of the prompt emission in the keV-MeV band.