Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lazzati, Davide and Blain, Andrew W. (2002) The Birthplace of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Abundance Gradients and Constraints on Progenitors. Astrophysical Journal, 565 (1). L9-L12. ISSN 1538-4357. doi:10.1086/339018. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170408-164406358
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Abstract
The physics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their offsets from the centers of their host galaxies are used to investigate the evolutionary state of their progenitors, motivated by the popular idea that GRBs are linked with the cataclysmic collapse of massive stars. We suggest that GRB progenitors in the inner and outer regions of hosts may be intrinsically different: outer bursts appear to have systematically greater isotropic equivalent energies (or narrower jets). This may provide an interesting clue to the nature of GRBs and may reflect a relation between metallicity and the evolution of GRB progenitors. If true, this offset-isotropic luminosity correlation is a strong argument for a collapsar origin of long-duration GRBs.
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| Additional Information: | © 2002. The American Astronomical Society. Received 2001 September 24; accepted 2001 December 6; published 2002 January 7. We thank G. Denicoló, N. Lloyd-Ronning, M. Pettini, M. J. Rees, C. Tout, and the referee for useful comments and suggestions. E. R.-R. acknowledges support from CONACYT, SEP, and the ORS foundation. A. W. B. thanks the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation for financial support at the IoA. | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | cosmology: observations; gamma rays: bursts; supernovae: general | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/339018 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20170408-164406358 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170408-164406358 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz et al 2002 ApJ 565 L9 | |||||||||
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| ID Code: | 76241 | |||||||||
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