The population of GRB hosts
N. R. Tanvir, A. J. Levan
TL;DR
This paper reviews what has been learned about gamma-ray burst host galaxies, highlighting their importance in understanding GRB progenitors and their role as high-redshift star-forming galaxy samples.
Contribution
It synthesizes current knowledge on GRB host properties and their significance in astrophysics, emphasizing their unique selection method.
Findings
GRB hosts provide clues to GRB progenitors.
They serve as a sample of high-redshift star-forming galaxies.
Insights into galaxy evolution from GRB host studies.
Abstract
The properties of their hosts provide important clues to the progenitors of different classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The hosts themselves also constitute a sample of high-redshift star-forming galaxies which, unlike most other methods, is not selected on the luminosities of the galaxies themselves. We discuss what we have learnt from and about GRB host galaxies to date.
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Taxonomy
TopicsGamma-ray bursts and supernovae