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Pop III GRBs: an estimative of the event rate for future surveys

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2012-09-06 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We discuss the theoretical event rate of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the collapse of massive primordial stars. We construct a theoretical model to calculate the rate and detectability of these GRBs taking into account all important feedback and recent results from numerical simulations of pristine gas. We expect to observe a maximum of N \lesssim 0.2 GRBs per year integrated over at z > 6 with \textit{Swift} and N \lesssim 10 GRBs per year integrated over at z > 6 with EXIST.

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@article{arxiv.1209.0823,
  title  = {Pop III GRBs: an estimative of the event rate for future surveys},
  author = {Rafael S. de Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.0823},
  year   = {2012}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, published in Proceedings of the Gamma-Ray Bursts 2012 Conference (GRB 2012)