Abstract
| - Observed properties of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies are important clues to understand the nature of GRB progenitors. However, the properties of the host galaxies don’t directly tell us the nature of the GRB progenitors, and the decipherment of the clue relies on our understanding of general galaxies. The relation between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and metallicity of star forming galaxies (so called the fundamental metallicity relation) has recently attracted attention regarding its possible impact upon our understanding on the properties of the long GRB host galaxies. In this study, I show the possibility of redshift evolution of the mass-SFR-metallicity relation which has been claimed to be independent of redshift, and discuss implications of the evolving relation for the properties of GRB/SN host galaxies.
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