Gamma-ray Burst Cosmology
arXiv:1504.00735 · doi:10.1016/j.newar.2015.03.001
Abstract
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, which emit up to erg isotropic equivalent energy in the hard X-ray band. The high luminosity makes them detectable out to the largest distances yet explored in the Universe. GRBs, as bright beacons in the deep Universe, would be the ideal tool to probe the properties of high-redshift universe: including the cosmic expansion and dark energy, star formation rate, the reionization epoch and the metal enrichment history of the Universe. In this article, we review the luminosity correlations of GRBs, and implications for constraining the cosmological parameters and dark energy. Observations show that the progenitors of long GRBs are massive stars. So it is expected that long GRBs are tracers of star formation rate. We also review the high-redshift star formation rate derived from GRBs, and implications for the cosmic reionization history. The afterglows of GRBs generally have broken power-law spectra, so it is possible to extract intergalactic medium (IGM) absorption features. We also present the capability of high-redshift GRBs to probe the pre-galactic metal enrichment and the first stars.
21 pages, 24 figures, Accepted for publication by New Astronomy Reviews
References in corpus (60)
- The James Webb Space Telescope
- The Supernova -- Gamma-Ray Burst Connection
- Long gamma-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments
- Observational constraints on Cosmic Reionization
- Discerning the physical origins of cosmological Gamma-ray bursts based on multiple observational criteria: the cases of z=6.7 GRB 080913, z=8.3 GRB 090423, and some short/hard GRBs
- The Hubble Diagram to Redshift >6 from 69 Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Fragmentation of star-forming clouds enriched with the first dust
- A Complete Catalog of Swift GRB Spectra and Durations: Demise of a Physical Origin for Pre-Swift High-Energy Correlations
- The Formation of the First Stars II. Radiative Feedback Processes and Implications for the Initial Mass Function
- A time - luminosity correlation for Gamma Ray Bursts in the X - rays
- Probing the Formation of the First Low-Mass Stars with Stellar Archaeology
- A Cosmology-Independent Calibration of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Relations and the Hubble Diagram
- The HII Region of a Primordial Star
- GRBs as Cosmological Probes - Cosmic Chemical Evolution
- Star Formation History up to z = 7.4: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Cosmic Metallicity Evolution
- The redshift distribution of SWIFT Gamma-Ray Bursts: evidence for evolution
- Examining the evidence for dynamical dark energy
- On the nature of nearby GRB/SN host galaxies
- The Epeak-Eiso plane of long Gamma Ray Bursts and selection effects
- Discovery of a tight correlation among the prompt emission properties of long Gamma Ray Bursts
- The Impact of Star Formation and Gamma-Ray Burst Rates at High Redshift on Cosmic Chemical Evolution and Reionization
- Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas
- Occurrence of Metal-free Galaxies in the Early Universe
- The metallicity dependence of the long-duration GRB rate from host galaxy luminosities
- Model-Independent Distance Measurements from Gamma-Ray Bursts and Constraints on Dark Energy
- The Gamma Ray Burst Luminosity Function in the Light of the Swift 2-year Data
- Extremely metal-poor gas at a redshift of 7
- Gamma-Ray Bursts in Suggest that the Time Variation of the Dark Energy is Small
- Do long-duration GRBs follow star formation?
- Comparing the spectral lag of short and long gamma-ray bursts and its relation with the luminosity
- Star Formation in the First Galaxies I: Collapse Delayed by Lyman-Werner Radiation
- Peak energy of the prompt emission of long Gamma Ray Bursts vs their fluence and peak flux
- The minimum stellar metallicity observable in the Galaxy
- The redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts revisited
- Modeling The GRB Host Galaxy Mass Distribution: Are GRBs Unbiased Tracers of Star Formation?
- Probing the anisotropic expansion from supernovae and GRBs in a model-independent way
- Temporal Profiles and Spectral Lags of XRF 060218
- Enhanced Cosmological GRB Rates and Implications for Cosmogenic Neutrinos
- Measuring Dark Energy with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Other Cosmological Probes
- Variation of the Amati Relation with the Cosmological Redshift: a Selection Effect or an Evolution Effect?
- Constraining the evolution of dark energy with type Ia supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
- Constraints on and of Dark Energy from High Redshift Gamma Ray Bursts
- The slope of the GRB Variability/Peak Luminosity Correlation
- Time-resolved spectral correlations of long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Constraints on Dark Energy Models Including Gamma Ray Bursts
- Gamma-ray burst supernovae as standardizable candles
- Long GRBs are metallicity-biased tracers of star formation: evidence from host galaxies and redshift distribution
- Are Swift gamma-ray bursts consistent with the Ghirlanda relation?
- Gamma-Ray Bursts are Produced Predominately in the Early Universe
- Testing the gamma-ray burst variability/peak luminosity correlation on a Swift homogeneous sample
- Open issues with the gamma-ray burst redshift distribution
- Unusually High Metallicity Host Of The Dark LGRB 051022
- Gravitational lensing effects on the gamma-ray burst Hubble diagram
- Deviation from the Cosmological Constant or Systematic Errors?
- Cosmological model of the interaction between dark matter and dark energy
- Gamma-ray burst contributions to constraining the evolution of dark energy
- Testing the interaction model with cosmological data and gamma-ray bursts
- Cosmological Parameters From Supernovae Associated With Gamma-ray Bursts
- Similar radiation mechanism in gamma-ray bursts and blazars: evidence from two luminosity correlations
- Cosmic histories of star formation and reionization: An analysis with a power-law approximation