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Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are powerful probes of the Universe star formation history, but correlation between the two depends on the highly debated presence/strength of a metallicity bias. To investigate this correlation, we use a phenomenological model that successfully describes star formation rates, luminosities and stellar masses of star forming galaxies, applying it to GRB production. We predict luminosities, stellar masses, and metallicities of host galaxies depending on the metallicity bias. Our best-fitting model includes a moderate metallicity bias, broadly consistent with the large majority of long-duration GRBs in metal-poor environments originating from collapsars (probability ~83%), but with a secondary contribution (~17%) from metal-independent production channels, such as binary evolution. Because of the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies, the maximum likelihood model predicts that the metal-independent channel becomes dominant at z<2, where hosts have higher metallicities and collapsars are suppressed. This possibly explains why some studies find no clear evidence of a metal-bias based on low-z samples. However, while metallicity predictions match obs

Author

Trenti, Michele; Perna, Rosalba; Jimenez, Raul

Published

2014

Language

EN