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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 498, Issue 4, Pages 5041-5047Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2787
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stars: formation; stars: general: gamma-ray bursts; cosmology: early Universe
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- U.S. Department of Energy through the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Nuclear Security Administration of U.S. Department of Energy [89233218CNA000001]
- LANL LDRD Exploratory Research Grant [20170317ER. LA-UR-20-23600]
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Gamma-ray burst (GRB) data suggest that the jets from GRBs in the high redshift universe are more narrowly collimated than those at lower redshifts. This implies that we detect relatively fewer long GRB progenitor systems (i.e. massive stars) at high redshifts, because a greater fraction of GRBs have their jets pointed away from us. As a result, estimates of the star formation rate (SFR; from the GRB rate) at high redshifts may be diminished if this effect is not taken into account. In this paper, we estimate the SFR using the observed GRB rate, accounting for an evolving jet opening angle. We find that the SFR in the early universe (z > 3) can be up to an order of magnitude higher than the canonical estimates, depending on the severity of beaming angle evolution and the fraction of stars that make long GRBs. Additionally, we find an excess in the SFR at low redshifts, although this lessens when accounting for evolution of the beaming angle. Finally, under the assumption that GRBs do, in fact, trace canonical forms of the cosmic SFR, we constrain the resulting fraction of stars that must produce GRBs, again accounting for jet beaming-angle evolution. We find this assumption suggests a high fraction of stars in the early universe producing GRBs - a result that may, in fact, support our initial assertion that GRBs do not trace canonical estimates of the SFR.
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