The origin of very-high-energy gamma-rays from GRB 221009A: implications for reverse shock proton synchrotron emission

B. Theodore Zhang, Kohta Murase, Kunihito Ioka +1

Recently, GRB 221009A, known as the brightest of all time (BOAT), has been observed across an astounding range of $\sim 18$ orders of magnitude in energy, spanning from radio to VH…