The metallicity dependence of the long-duration GRB rate from host galaxy luminosities

Details The metallicity dependence of the long-duration GRB rate from host galaxy luminosities The metallicity dependence of the long-duration GRB rate from host galaxy luminosities

2006-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606725v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:1049-1058,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS resubmitted

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11373.x

We investigate the difference between the host galaxy properties of core-collapse supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), and quantify a possible metallicity dependence of the efficiency of producing LGRBs. We use a sample of 16 CC SNe and 16 LGRBs from Fruchter et al. (2006) which have similar redshift distributions to eliminate galaxy evolution biases. We make a forward prediction of their host galaxy luminosity distributions from the overall cosmic metallicity distribution of star formation. This appoach is supported by the finding that LGRB hosts follow the L-Z relations of star-forming galaxies. We then compare predictions for metallicity-dependent event efficiencies with the observed host data. We find that UV-based SFR estimates predict the hosts distribution of CC SNe perfectly well in a metallicity-independent form. In contrast, LGRB hosts are fainter on average by one magnitude, almost as faint as the Large Magellanic Cloud. Assuming this is a metallicity effect, the present data are insufficient to discriminate between a sharp metallicity cutoff and a soft decrease in efficiency towards higher metallicity. For a sharp cut-off, however, we find a best value for the cutoff metallicity, as reflected in the oxygen abundance, 12+log (O/H)_lim ~ 8.7+/-0.3 at 95% confidence including systematic uncertainties on the calibration of Kobulnicky & Kewley (2004). This value is somewhat lower than the traditionally quoted value for the Sun, but is comparable to the revised solar oxygen abundance (Asplund, Grevesse & Sauval 2005). LGRB models that require sharp metallicity cutoffs well below ~1/2 the revised solar metallicity appear to be effectively ruled out (abridged).

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