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Search for very-high-energy photons from Gamma-ray bursts with HAWC

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Pith's one-line read HAWC finds no very-high-energy signal in four gamma-ray bursts

desk verdict Modest but useful HAWC proceedings: two genuinely new late-time upper limits, one internal time-window inconsistency that must be fixed before anyone quotes the GRB 170206A number. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.07717 v1 pith:QYDSBD6P submitted 2019-08-21 astro-ph.HE

Nissim Fraija , M. Magdalena González (for the HAWC Collaboration) This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords gamma-rayburstsvery-high-energygammaraysHAWCobservatoryfluxupperlimitsGeV-TeVemissionGRBafterglowsgravitational-wavecounterpart
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The reading

The paper reports the results of the HAWC observatory's ongoing search for very-high-energy photons from gamma-ray bursts. For four bursts that occurred in HAWC's field of view between February 2017 and January 2019 (GRB 170206A, GRB 170817A, GRB 180720B, and GRB 190114C), the analysis finds no statistically significant excess of counts and derives GeV-TeV flux upper limits. The limits apply to specific time windows, some of which begin hours after the trigger and one of which extends over many days. These are ground-based very-high-energy constraints on some of the nearest and most studied bursts of that period, including the gravitational-wave counterpart GRB 170817A and the burst for which MAGIC reported sub-TeV photons, GRB 190114C.

What carries the argument

The central object is the HAWC water-Cherenkov array, a ground-based detector at 4,100 m elevation that observes air showers from 100 GeV to 100 TeV with a wide field of view of about 2 sr and a duty cycle above 95%. Because it does not need to repoint, HAWC can collect data before, during, and after a burst trigger, and the paper uses two search modes: rapid-response follow-up of satellite alerts and a self-triggered all-sky search over 0.2, 1, and 10 s windows. The upper limits are built from count excesses in the direction of each burst within the chosen time windows, using a spectral index of 2.5 and the extragalactic background light model to convert counts to flux limits.

What would settle it

A direct check is to re-run the HAWC search in the same four time windows with the latest event reconstruction and look for a statistically significant excess at the burst positions: a positive detection would contradict the paper's non-detection claim. A sharper test for GRB 190114C is to extrapolate the early MAGIC spectrum to 5-7 hours using a typical afterglow decay and compare it with the quoted $4.46\times10^{-8}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ limit; if the predicted late-time flux exceeds the limit, the non-detection would require a spectral break or a steeper temporal decay.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the central claim is that HAWC saw no statistically significant very-high-energy emission from any of the four bursts during the periods it was observing, and that the resulting upper limits are: $2.82\times10^{-6}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ over 80-800 GeV for GRB 170206A in the 6-8 s window, $3.37\times10^{-12}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ over 7-170 TeV for GRB 170817A averaged over 10-110 days, $1.81\times10^{-8}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ over 2-60 TeV for GRB 180720B in the 18-22 hour window, and $4.46\times10^{-8}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ over 7-170 TeV for GRB 190114C in the 5-7 hour window, all assuming a power-law spectrum with photon index 2.5 and including extragalactic background light attenuation. For GRB 190114C, this limit applies several hours after the sub-TeV emission detected by MAGIC in the first 20 minutes, so the two measurements probe different phases.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the chosen HAWC observation windows overlap with the periods when very-high-energy emission could plausibly be present; for GRB 190114C the limit starts five hours after the trigger, well after the sub-TeV emission detected in the first 20 minutes, so if very-high-energy emission is confined to early phases, the upper limits do not constrain the burst mechanism.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the non-detections are real, the four bursts produced no very-high-energy flux above the quoted limits in HAWC's time windows, so any model predicting a detectable signal in those windows is ruled out.
  • For GRB 190114C, the HAWC limit at 5-7 hours does not conflict with the sub-TeV emission seen in the first 20 minutes; instead it tightens constraints on a prolonged TeV afterglow at later times.
  • For GRB 170817A, the 10-110 day limit means that any TeV emission from the neutron-star merger afterglow during this period was fainter than $3.37\times10^{-12}\ \mathrm{erg\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$, complementing late-time radio and X-ray observations.
  • Because the limits all assume a common power-law index of 2.5, they can be compared directly across bursts and folded into population studies of gamma-ray burst very-high-energy emission.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because HAWC's windows for GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C begin 18 and 5 hours after trigger, these upper limits probe the late afterglow, not the prompt or early-emission phase that imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes can catch; a burst whose very-high-energy emission is confined to the first minutes could evade both types of constraint if the two observations do not overlap.
  • A testable extension is to stack HAWC limits for many bursts with similar redshifts to place a population-level constraint on very-high-energy afterglow luminosity, something a single burst cannot provide.
  • For GRB 170817A, the long integration window dilutes any short-lived TeV flare; a time-resolved search within the 10-110 day window could reveal emission that the time-averaged limit hides.
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Summary. This ICRC proceedings paper reports a HAWC search for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from four gamma-ray bursts that occurred between February 2017 and January 2019: GRB 170206A, GRB 170817A, GRB 180720B, and GRB 190114C. No statistically significant excess is found, and flux upper limits are quoted for specified observation windows and energy ranges: (80-800) GeV for GRB 170206A, (7-170) TeV for GRB 170817A, (2-60) TeV for GRB 180720B, and (7-170) TeV for GRB 190114C. The limits are derived under an assumed power-law spectrum with index 2.5 and include EBL attenuation following Franceschini et al. (2008). The paper frames these results as part of HAWC's ongoing GRB monitoring program, including both external-trigger follow-up and self-triggered searches.

Significance. If the quoted upper limits are reliable, they provide genuinely new observational constraints in the GeV-TeV band for four bursts that are of particular interest because of their proximity, energetics, or association with a gravitational-wave event. The analysis is self-contained in the sense that no model parameter is fitted to the HAWC data being constrained; the assumed spectral index, redshift, and EBL model are external inputs. A strength of the HAWC approach is its wide field of view and high duty cycle, which allow prompt and delayed coverage that pointed IACTs cannot provide. The paper also demonstrates coordination with multi-messenger and multi-wavelength observations, which is valuable. The main limitations are that the proceedings format omits the statistical details needed to verify the limits and that the observation windows for GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C do not overlap with the epochs when VHE emission was detected by other instruments.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3.1 and Table 1] There is a direct inconsistency between the text and Table 1 for GRB 170206A. Section 3.1 states that the GBM T90 duration is 1.2 s and that the most restrictive upper limit is for a time window of T90, but Table 1 lists the integration time as 6-8 s. A 1.2-s window beginning at the trigger cannot be the same as a 2-s window starting 6 s after the trigger. If the limit actually applies to 6-8 s after trigger, then the statement that HAWC searched for TeV emission coincident with the prompt phase is unsupported, and the quoted upper limit does not constrain the prompt-emission mechanism for this burst. This inconsistency must be resolved, since the time window is load-bearing for the scientific interpretation of the limit.
  2. [Secs. 3.3, 3.4, and 4] For GRB 190114C and GRB 180720B, the HAWC observation windows do not overlap with the periods during which VHE emission was detected or is most plausibly expected. GRB 190114C was detected by MAGIC during the first 20 minutes after the trigger, whereas the HAWC limit is for 5-7 hours after the trigger; GRB 180720B was observed by H.E.S.S. during the first few hours, whereas the HAWC limit is for 18-22 hours after the trigger. The paper states these windows explicitly, so the mismatch is transparent, but the abstract and Section 4 should avoid implying that these limits constrain the detected VHE episodes. As written, the central claim 'VHE upper limits... were derived around the positions of' these bursts is technically true, but the interpretation that these limits are competitive with or complementary to the IACT detections requires clarification of what physical phases are actually being constrained.
  3. [Secs. 3 and 4 and Table 1] The paper does not report the confidence level of the upper limits, the statistical significance of the non-detection, or the systematic uncertainties entering the flux calculation. Since the central result is a set of upper limits, the reader cannot verify from the text whether the quoted values correspond, for example, to 90%, 95%, or 99% confidence, nor how the assumed spectral index of 2.5 and the assumed redshift of z=0.3 for GRB 170206A propagate into the limits. The paper cites prior HAWC analysis references, which is appropriate, but it should at least state the confidence level and the dominant systematic uncertainties for these specific limits.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Section 4] The Summary states 'GRB 180721A', but the burst analyzed throughout the paper is GRB 180720B; this appears to be a typo and should be corrected.
  2. [Section 3.1] The text states that the upper limit for GRB 170206A was calculated for 'Eiso = 5.5 x 10^52 erg and an assumed z=0.3', but no uncertainty on Eiso or a justification for the assumed redshift is given; since this burst has no measured redshift, the sensitivity of the quoted limit to this assumption should be stated.
  3. [References] References [26] and [31] appear to cite the same GCN circular for GRB 170206A and should be merged or distinguished; similarly, several GCN entries in the reference list are incompletely formatted (e.g., entries [59], [60], [62], [63], [67], [68], [69], [70] lack titles).

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the HAWC upper limits are self-contained measurements; timing inconsistencies are correctness concerns, not circularity.

full rationale

The paper's derived quantities are time-windowed VHE flux upper limits for four GRBs, obtained from HAWC archival data counts against background estimates. The assumed spectral index (Table 1: 'The spectral power-law index of 2.5 was used in all cases') and the EBL model ('The effect of extragalactic background light (EBL) attenuation shown in [25] is used') are fixed external inputs, not fitted to the bursts. Self-citations to earlier HAWC papers ([22,29,30,47,48,49]) describe independent detector analyses of the same observational program; because those analyses measure counts against background, they do not smuggle in the non-detection as a premise. The GRB 170206A discrepancy (text T90 = 1.2 s versus Table 1 window 6-8 s) and the MAGIC/HAWC time-window mismatch are important correctness and interpretation issues, but they do not make the limits equal to their inputs by construction. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no result is defined in terms of the quantity it purports to constrain.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The analysis uses external inputs: an assumed spectrum, an EBL model, and time windows from the bursts' histories. No new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • Spectral power-law index = 2.5
    Assumed for all four bursts when computing flux upper limits; stated in Table 1 caption.
  • Redshift of GRB 170206A = 0.3 (assumed)
    No measured redshift exists; z=0.3 is assumed as a likely short-burst value [29] and used to compute Eiso and the upper limit.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption EBL attenuation model of Franceschini et al. (2008) describes extragalactic background light absorption at very-high energies.
    Used in Section 3 to interpret the upper limits; the model is standard but not validated for every burst line of sight.
  • domain assumption GRB emission follows an unbroken power law with photon index 2.5 across the HAWC energy band.
    Assumed for all limits; if the true spectrum is softer or harder, the quoted flux limits change.
  • domain assumption The chosen time windows bracket the periods when very-high-energy emission could have occurred.
    Limits are quoted for specific windows, such as 5-7 hours after trigger for GRB 190114C; if VHE emission was confined to earlier phases, the limits do not constrain it.

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Detections of very-high-energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) photons from Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can provide fundamental information on the involved radiative processes, physical composition of the ejecta and acceleration processes. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is the best gamma-ray instrument to study transient phenomena over a long period of time from 100 GeV to 100 TeV. Its large field of view and duty cycle (> 95%) allow it to search blindly for sources of GRBs and to follow up on external alerts from satellite instruments, such as Fermi and Swift, searching for their VHE counterpart. We present results from the on-going GRB monitoring program and VHE upper limits of the latest interesting low-redshift and/or powerful bursts in HAWC's field of view: GRB 170206A, GRB 170817A, GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C.

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