Multi-wavelength study of the luminous GRB 210619B observed with Fermi and ASIM

M. D. Caballero-García*, Rahul Gupta, S. B. Pandey, S. R. Oates, M. Marisaldi, A. Ramsli, Y. -D. Hu, A. J. Castro-Tirado, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, P. H. Connell, F. Christiansen, A. Kumar Ror, A. Aryan, J. -M. Bai, M. A. Castro-Tirado, Y. -F. Fan, E. Fernández-García, A. Kumar, A. Lindanger, A. MezentsevJ. Navarro-González, T. Neubert, N. Østgaard, I. Pérez-García, V. Reglero, D. Sarria, T. R. Sun, D. -R. Xiong, J. Yang, Y. -H. Yang, B. -B. Zhang

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Abstract

We report on detailed multiwavelength observations and analysis of the very bright and long GRB 210619B, detected by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor installed on the International Space Station and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on-board the Fermi mission. Our main goal is to understand the radiation mechanisms and jet composition of GRB 210619B. With a measured redshift of z = 1.937, we find that GRB 210619B falls within the 10 most luminous bursts observed by Fermi so far. The energy-resolved prompt emission light curve of GRB 210619B exhibits an extremely bright hard emission pulse followed by softer/longer emission pulses. The low-energy photon index (αpt) values obtained using the time-resolved spectral analysis of the burst suggest a transition between the thermal (during harder pulse) to non-thermal (during softer pulse) outflow. We examine the correlation between spectral parameters and find that both peak energy and αpt exhibit the flux tracking pattern. The late time broad-band photometric data set can be explained within the framework of the external forward shock model with νm < νc < νx (where νm, νc, and νx are the synchrotron peak, cooling-break, and X-ray frequencies, respectively) spectral regime supporting a rarely observed hard electron energy index (p < 2). We find moderate values of host extinction of E(BV) = 0.14 ± 0.01 mag for the small magellanic cloud extinction law. In addition, we also report late-time optical observations with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio de Canarias placing deep upper limits for the host galaxy (z = 1.937), favouring a faint, dwarf host for the burst.
Original languageEnglish
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume519
Pages (from-to)3201–3226
ISSN0035-8711
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Methods: data analysis
  • Gamma-ray burst: general
  • Gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 210619B

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