Conveners
Gravitational Waves and VHE Emission from GRBs: Plenary-1
- Judith Racusin
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky monitoring instrument designed to detect the prompt emission from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and provide near-real time locations for follow-up observations. Over the past 11 years of operation, the GBM has detected over 240 gamma-ray bursts per year and provided timely community notices with localization to few-degree accuracy such as GRB...
High energy radiation (0.1-100 GeV) from GRBs is regularly detected by Fermi-LAT in a sizable fraction of bright GRBs. The presence of emission at even higher energies instead has been discovered only recently, thanks to detections by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes. These detections have shown that very high energy (VHE) emission up to at least 1 TeV can indeed be produced in...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the Universe. Their nature has been well studied using enormous amounts of GRB data in a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio frequencies up to GeV energies. However, several theoretical studies had been predicting TeV emission as well, but it could not be detected for a long time.
The MAGIC collaboration had been...
Current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have only recently begun to detect very-high energy emission (VHE; >100 GeV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Here we report on the observations of the extremely bright and rather nearby GRB 180720B by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), leading to its detection in the 100–440 GeV energy range. This detection was achieved over...
