Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies in Emission and Absorption

Perley, DA, Niino, Y, Tanvir, NR, Vergani, SD and Fynbo, JPU (2016) Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies in Emission and Absorption. Space Science Reviews, 202 (1-4). pp. 111-142. ISSN 0038-6308

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Abstract

The galaxy population hosting long-duration GRBs provides a means to constrain the progenitor and an opportunity to use these violent explosions to characterize the nature of the high-redshift universe. Studies of GRB host galaxies in emission reveal a population of star-forming galaxies with great diversity, spanning a wide range of masses, metallicities, and redshifts. However, as a population GRB hosts are significantly less massive and poorer in metals than the hosts of other core-collapse transients, suggesting that GRB production is only efficient at metallicities significantly below Solar. GRBs may also prefer compact galaxies, and dense and/or central regions of galaxies, more than other types of core-collapse explosion. Meanwhile, studies of hosts in absorption against the luminous GRB optical afterglow provide a unique means of unveiling properties of the ISM in even the faintest and most distant galaxies; these observations are helping to constrain the chemical evolution of galaxies and the properties of interstellar dust out to very high redshifts. New ground- and space-based instrumentation, and the accumulation of larger and more carefully-selected samples, are continually enhancing our view of the GRB host population. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-016-0237-4
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
Date of acceptance:	20 January 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	10 March 2017
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2017 11:43
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2022 09:30
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/s11214-016-0237-4
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5563

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