The host galaxies and merger environments of short and long gamma-ray bursts producing kilonovae

arXiv:2604.06586 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-04-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-08

Updated: 2026-09-18

Comments: 25 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. Submitted and accepted to ApJ. Comments are welcome!

Journal ref: Hannah Skobe et al 2026 ApJ 1009 50

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9c33

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Swift Burst Alert Telescope — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Exploding neutron stars in close binaries
• Probing the origin of the kilonova candidate GRB 230307A: analysis of host galaxy and offset
• A merger within a merger: Chandra pinpoints the short GRB 230906A in a peculiar environment
• Morfometryka -- A New Way of Establishing Morphological Classification of Galaxies
• Heavy element nucleosynthesis associated with a gamma-ray burst
• High-precision astrometry and photometry with the JWST/MIRI imager
• White Dwarf-Black Hole Binary Progenitors of Low Redshift Gamma-ray Bursts
• Short gamma-ray burst progenitors have short delay times
• Gamma-ray bursts from accreting black holes in neutron star mergers
• Kilonova and progenitor properties of merger-driven gamma-ray bursts
• Streamlining and standardizing software citations with The Software Citation Station

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