Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-11
Astrophys.J.638:L63-L66,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 2 figures; accepted as ApJ Letter
Scientific paper
10.1086/500363
We explore the consequences of new observational and theoretical evidence that long gamma-ray bursts prefer low metallicity environments. Using recently derived mass-metallicity correlations and the mass function from SDSS studies, and adopting an average cosmic metallicity evolution from \citet{kewley2005} and \citet{savaglio2005} we derive expressions for the the relative number of massive stars formed below a given fraction of solar metallicity, $\epsilon$, as function of redshift. We demonstrate that about 1/10th of all stars form with $\epsilon < 0.1$. Therefore, a picture where the majority of GRBs form with $\epsilon < 0.1$ is not inconsistent with an empirical global SN/GRB ratio of 1/1000. It implies that (1) GRB's peak at a significantly higher redshift than supernovae; (2) massive star evolution at low metallicity may be qualitatively different and; (3) the larger the low-metallicity bias of GRBs the less likely binary evolution channels can be significant GRB producers.
Langer Norbert
Norman Colin A.
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