Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-28
MNRAS, 2009, 400, L10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, two references added
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2009.00751.x
The high-redshift star formation rate (SFR) is difficult to measure directly even by modern approaches. Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be detected to the edge of the visible universe because of their high luminorsities. The collapsar model of long gamma-ray bursts indicates that they may trace the star formation history. So long gamma-ray bursts may be a useful tool of measuring the high-redshift SFR. Observations show that long gamma-ray bursts prefer to form in a low-metallicity environment. We study the high-redshift SFR up to z~8.3 considering the Swift GRBs tracing the star formation history and the cosmic metallicity evolution in different background cosmological models including $\Lambda$CDM, quintessence, quintessence with a time-varying equation of state, and brane-world model. We use latest Swift GRBs including two highest-$z$ GRBs, GRB 080913 at $z=6.7$ and GRB 090423 at $z=8.3$. We find that the SFR at $z>4$ shows a steep decay with a slope of $\sim -5.0$ in $\Lambda$CDM. In the other three models, the high-redshift SFR is slightly different from $\Lambda$CDM model, and also shows a steep decay.
Dai Gao Z.
Wang Feng-Yu
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