Properties of long gamma-ray burst host galaxies in cosmological simulations
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M. A. Campisi
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, via G.B. Tiepoli 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy.
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G. De Lucia
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, via G.B. Tiepoli 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy.
Search for more papers by this authorL.-X. Li
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorS. Mao
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
Search for more papers by this authorX. Kang
Max-Planck-Institut fr Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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M. A. Campisi
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, via G.B. Tiepoli 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy.
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G. De Lucia
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, via G.B. Tiepoli 11, I-34131 Trieste, Italy.
Search for more papers by this authorL.-X. Li
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl–Schwarzschild–Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
Search for more papers by this authorS. Mao
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
Search for more papers by this authorX. Kang
Max-Planck-Institut fr Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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We use galaxy catalogues constructed by combining high-resolution N-body simulations with semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to study the properties of long gamma-ray burst (LGRB) host galaxies. We assume that LGRBs originate from the death of massive young stars and analyse how results are affected by different metallicity constraints on the progenitor stars. As expected, the host sample with no metallicity restriction on the progenitor stars provides a perfect tracer of the cosmic star formation history. When LGRBs are required to be generated by low-metallicity stars, they trace a decreasing fraction of the cosmic star formation rate at lower redshift, as a consequence of the global increase in metallicity. We study the properties of host galaxies up to high redshift (∼9), finding that they typically have low metallicity (Z < 0.5 Z⊙) and that they are small (M < 109 M⊙), bluer and younger than the average galaxy population, in agreement with observational data. They are also less clustered than typical L* galaxies in the Universe, and their descendents are massive, red and reside in groups of galaxies with halo mass between 1013 and 1014 M⊙.
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