Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-07-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Contribution to the 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, July 2009
Scientific paper
Gamma-ray bursts are cosmological sources emitting radiation from the gamma-rays to the radio band. Substantial observational efforts have been devoted to the study of GRBs during the prompt phase, i.e. the initial burst of high-energy radiation, and during the longer-lasting afterglows. In spite of many successes in interpreting these phenomena there are still several open key questions about the fundamental emission processes, their energetics and the environment. Moreover, independently of their modeling, GRB spectra are remarkably simple, being satisfactorily fitted with power-laws, and therefore offer a very valuable tool to probe the extragalactic background light distribution affecting all high-energy observations of cosmological sources. Observations carried out with Cherenkov telescopes, as MAGIC, can be fundamental for all these scientific topics. GRB080430, being at a rather moderate redshift, z~0.76, and well-studied in the optical, although observed only a few hours after the high-energy event, is a good test case to evaluate the perspective for late-afterglow observations with ground based GeV/TeV observatories.
Antonelli Angelo
Bastieri Denis
Becerra-Gonzalez Josefa
Carosi Alessandro
Covino Stefano
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