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Revisiting Metallicity of Long Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies: The Role of Chemical Inhomogeneities in Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Yuu Niino
Yuu Niino*
Affiliation:
Division of Optical and NIR Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Some theoretical studies on the origin of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using stellar evolution models suggest that a low metallicity environment may be a necessary condition for a GRB to occur. However, recent discoveries of high-metallicity host galaxies of some GRBs cast doubt on the requirement of low-metallicity in GRB occurrence. In this study, we predict the metallicity distribution of GRB host galaxies, assuming empirical formulations of galaxy properties. We take internal dispersion of metallicity within each galaxy into account. Assuming GRBs trace low-metallicity star formation 12+log(O/H) < 8.2, we find that ≳ 10% of GRB host galaxies may have Z > Z⊙, depending on the internal dispersion of metallicity within galaxies.

Keywords

gamma rays: burstsgalaxies: abundances
Type
Poster Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S279: Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts , April 2011 , pp. 369 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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