The metallicity properties of simulated long-GRB galaxy hosts and the Fundamental Metallicity Relation

Details The metallicity properties of simulated long-GRB galaxy hosts and the Fundamental Metallicity Relation The metallicity properties of simulated long-GRB galaxy hosts and the Fundamental Metallicity Relation

2011-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/1105.1378v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

9 pages, 5 figures, submitted MNRAS

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We study the implication of the collapsar model for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) on the metallicity properties of the host galaxies, by combining high-resolution N-body simulations with semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. The cosmological model that we use reproduces the Fundamental Metallicity Relation recently discovered for the SDSS galaxies, whereby the metallicity decreases with increasing Star Formation Rate for galaxies of a given stellar mass. We select host galaxies housing pockets of gas-particles, young and with different thresholds in metallicities, that can be sites of LRGB events, according to the collapsar model. The simulated samples are compared with 18 observed LGRB hosts in the aim at discriminating whether the metallicity is a primary parameter. We find that a threshold in metallicity for the LGRB progenitors, within the model galaxies, is not necessary in order to reproduce the observed distribution of host metallicities. The low metallicities of observed LGRB hosts is a consequence of the high star formation environment. The star formation rate appears to be the primary parameter to generate a burst event. Finally, we show that only a few LGRBs are observed in massive, highly extincted galaxies, while these galaxies are expected to produce many such events. We identify these missing events with the fraction of dark LGRBs.

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