Multi-TeV photons from GRB 221009A: uncertainty of optical depth considered
Abstract
It is reported that the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) observed thousands of very-high-energy photons up to 18 TeV from GRB 221009A. We study the survival rate of these photons via considering the fact that they are absorbed by the extragalactic background light. By performing a set of 106 Monte-Carlo simulations, we explore the parameter space allowed by current observations and estimate the probability of predicting that LHAASO detects at least one photon of 18 TeV from GRB 221009A. We find that the standard physics is compatible with the observations of 18 TeV photons within 3.5σ confidence interval. Our research method can be straightforwardly generalized to study more data sets of LHAASO and other experiments in the future.
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