GRB 221009A: The BOAT

GRB 221009A: The BOAT

GRB 221009A has been referred to as the brightest of all time (BOAT). We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations. This burst is the brightest ever detected by the measures of peak flux and fluence. Unexpectedly, GRB 221009...

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Main Authors: Eric Burns, Dmitry Svinkin, Edward Fenimore, D. Alexander Kann, José Feliciano Agüí Fernández, Dmitry Frederiks, Rachel Hamburg, Stephen Lesage, Yuri Temiraev, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Sarah Dalessi, Rachel Dunwoody, Cori Fletcher, Adam Goldstein, C. Michelle Hui, Boyan A. Hristov, Daniel Kocevski, Alexandra L. Lysenko, Bagrat Mailyan, Joseph Mangan, Sheila McBreen, Judith Racusin, Anna Ridnaia, Oliver J. Roberts, Mikhail Ulanov, Peter Veres, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Joshua Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Gamma-ray bursts
Gamma-ray transient sources
Gamma-ray sources
Jets
Core-collapse supernovae
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acc39c

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acc39c

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