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MAGIC detection of GRB 201216C at z = 1.1
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transient events occurring at cosmological distances, releasing a large amount of energy as electromagnetic radiation over several energy bands. We report the detection of the long GRB 201216C by the MAGIC telescopes. The source is located at z = 1.1 and thus it is the farthest one detected at very high energies. The emission above 70 GeV of GRB 201216C is modelled together with multiwavelength data within a synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenario. We find that SSC can explain the broad-band data well from the optical to the very-high-energy band. For the late-time radio data, a different component is needed to account for the observed emission. Differently from previous GRBs detected in the very-high-energy range, the model for GRB 201216C strongly favours a wind-like medium. The model parameters have values similar to those found in past studies of the afterglows of GRBs detected up to GeV energies.
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ABE, H., et al. MAGIC detection of GRB 201216C at z = 1.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2024. Vol. 527, num. 3, pags. 5856-5867. ISSN 0035-8711. [consulted: 17 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220456