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Long gamma-ray bursts without supernovae may be as common as those with them, implying many nearby long GRBs arise from compact object mergers rather than massive stars.

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load-bearing objection The claim that a large fraction of local long GRBs are merger-driven is probably right, but the quantitative rate and fraction numbers rest on a circular threshold and an incomplete sample. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.26133 v1 pith:FUZXMKTM submitted 2026-07-28 astro-ph.HE

Gamma-ray burst progenitors revisited

Andrew J. Levan , Jillian C. Rastinejad , Helena-Margaret S. Grabham , Daniele B. Malesani , Nial R. Tanvir , Eric Burns , Benjamin P. Gompertz , Gavin P. Lamb
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Ashley A. Chrimes Peter G. Jonker Om Salafia Nikhil Sarin Ilya Mandel Antonio Martin-Carrillo
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keywords gamma-ray burstsGRB supernovaekilonovaecompact object mergerscollapsarsmerger-driven long GRBsvolumetric rateslow-redshift GRBs
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The pith

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The paper challenges the textbook dichotomy that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) come from collapsing massive stars and short GRBs from compact object mergers. Using satellite-detected GRBs at z<0.3, it finds nine long-duration bursts with deep supernova limits, kilonova evidence, or quiescent host galaxies—31% of all local GRBs and equal in number to the nine with clear supernovae. It argues these supernova-less long GRBs are likely mergers, with on-axis volumetric rates comparable to short GRBs, roughly 0.5–2.5 Gpc⁻³ yr⁻¹. If correct, roughly 30–70% of nearby long GRBs arise from mergers, not massive stars. The conclusion rests on a threshold that treats non-detections fainter than 0.26 times SN 1998bw as ruling out a supernova.

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper establishes that at z<0.3 the number of long GRBs with no detectable supernova (nine events) equals the number with a clear supernova (nine events), with only three ambiguous events in between. These supernova-less bursts have fainter afterglows, lower X-ray absorption, and less star-forming host galaxies than supernova-associated GRBs, consistent with a compact-object-merger origin. The paper thus claims that a significant fraction of the local long-GRB population—32–68% of long GRBs and 30–70% of all z<0.3 GRBs—likely arises from mergers rather than massive stars.

What carries the argument

The central diagnostic is the f_1998bw ratio: the brightness of a GRB's optical/IR counterpart (or an upper limit) relative to the prototype GRB supernova SN 1998bw at the same rest-frame time and wavelength. Fitting a log-normal distribution to confirmed GRB supernovae yields a 2-sigma lower limit of f_1998bw=0.26; bursts with limits fainter than this are classified as L-Mergers. This single threshold, supplemented by kilonova detections and quiescent-host associations, carries the argument that separates collapsar and merger progenitors.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that an optical/IR non-detection fainter than 0.26 times SN 1998bw reliably rules out a supernova, so every L-Merger is taken as a merger; if many true GRB supernovae are intrinsically faint or heavily extincted, the inferred merger fraction and rates are overestimated.

What would settle it

Measure the luminosity function of stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae from wide-field surveys and count the fraction fainter than 0.26 times SN 1998bw: if a substantial fraction peak below that level, then deep non-detections at that threshold do not uniquely rule out a massive-star progenitor, and the L-Merger classification is insecure.

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If this is right

  • The local rates of long-duration, supernova-less GRBs are comparable to short GRBs on-axis, so a substantial merger population is hidden inside the long-GRB class.
  • Long GRBs cannot be treated as clean tracers of massive-star formation at low redshift; the merger population breaks that mapping.
  • Gravitational-wave coincidence searches should expect long-duration GRBs as merger counterparts at rates comparable to short GRBs.
  • Heavy-element enrichment estimates that rely on short-GRB merger rates may need to add a comparable long-GRB merger channel.
  • The merger fraction should decline with cosmic star-formation rate, so high-redshift long-GRB samples remain dominated by collapsars.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A dedicated infrared search of every z<0.3 GRB with no detected supernova, at 20–40 days rest-frame, would test whether the deep-limits classification is secure or hiding a population of faint or extincted collapsars.
  • If the paper's host-incompleteness estimate (roughly 50%) is folded in, the true merger rates could be twice the central values, making merger-powered long GRBs the dominant local compact-object channel.
  • The same logic applied to X-ray flashes and faint X-ray transients suggests the merger contribution to soft, low-luminosity bursts may be underestimated because those are not in gamma-ray samples.
  • The luminosity cut above 10^48 erg/s excludes nearby low-luminosity events; including them could change the inferred merger fraction.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper constructs a low-redshift sample of Swift-detected GRBs (29 at z<0.3, 60 at z<0.5) plus an all-telescope z<0.5 sample, and classifies bursts into Collapsar, L-Merger, L-Weak, S-Merger, and S-Weak using the ratio f_1998bw of any optical/IR detection or limit to the SN 1998bw template, supplemented by kilonova claims and host-galaxy type. The central result is that 9 of 29 z<0.3 bursts (31%±9%) are classified as L-Mergers, implying that a substantial fraction of nearby long GRBs do not arise from massive stars. The paper further reports that L-Mergers have fainter afterglows and less star-forming hosts than Collapsars, and estimates on-axis volumetric rates of 0.5–2.5 Gpc⁻³ yr⁻¹ for all classes, concluding that long- and short-GRB merger rates are comparable and that 30–70% of z<0.3 Swift long GRBs may arise from mergers.

Significance. If the conclusion holds, it upends the simple duration–progenitor mapping and has direct implications for gravitational-wave follow-up, compact-object merger rates, and r-process enrichment. The paper’s strengths are its well-defined samples, careful compilation of SN limits in Table A3, use of multiple independent diagnostics (deep SN limits, kilonova detections, quiescent hosts), and unusually transparent discussion of caveats. The qualitative finding that a population of nearby supernova-less long GRBs exists is supported by several events with very deep limits or direct kilonova/quiescent-host evidence. However, the headline quantitative fractions and rate comparisons depend on classification thresholds and completeness corrections that are not yet robustly quantified, so the quantitative claims outrun the current analysis.

major comments (4)
  1. [§2.2, Fig. 2, Table A3] The f_1998bw=0.26 threshold is the 2σ lower limit of a log-normal fit to the very same GRB-SN sample that the threshold is then used to test. If the intrinsic GRB-SN luminosity function has a tail below 0.26 (e.g., through lower 56Ni masses or host extinction), bursts with limits just below the threshold—notably GRB 051109B with f<0.26—could be genuine collapsars, biasing the headline 31%±9% and the long-GRB merger fraction 0.43±0.11. The ZTF BTS comparison mitigates but does not eliminate this concern because BTS is flux-limited and may not represent the GRB-SN population. Please add a sensitivity analysis that varies the threshold (e.g., 0.1, 0.2, 0.5) and recomputes the type fractions and derived rates, and state which L-Merger classifications are robust to this variation.
  2. [§4.2, §4.3, Table 2] The rate estimates assume η_z=1, yet Section 4.2 concludes the sample may be only 48–66% complete, and Section 3.3 shows that L-Merger afterglows are systematically fainter, implying that completeness is likely class-dependent and that L-Mergers may be under-represented. The central rate comparison (short vs long merger, ~0.5–2.5 Gpc⁻³ yr⁻¹) and the inferred 30–70% merger fraction therefore do not account for differential incompleteness. Please provide a quantitative treatment of class-dependent completeness, or explicitly restate the conclusions as lower limits under a range of completeness assumptions.
  3. [§2.2 vs §3.5, Fig. 9] The L-Merger class is defined partly by association with quiescent/ancient hosts (e.g., GRBs 050219A, 191019A), and Section 3.5 then demonstrates that L-Mergers have lower-SFR hosts than Collapsars. This trend is therefore partially built into the classification and is not an independent confirmation of the merger interpretation. Please recompute the host-SFR and offset comparisons after excluding events classified solely on host-galaxy properties, or state explicitly which part of the trend is definitional.
  4. [§4.3, Table 2] The rate estimates differ by factors of roughly three to six across estimators; for example, for z<0.3, Collapsar rates are 1.35 (S/N) vs 0.37 (fluence) Gpc⁻³ yr⁻¹, and S-Merger rates are 0.74 vs 2.05. The text claims these estimates agree “to within a factor of two,” which is not supported by Table 2. Because the comparability of long- and short-merger rates is a central conclusion, the rate systematics need to be presented as a range that reflects the full estimator spread rather than a single 0.5–2.5 interval.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§2.2 / Appendix B2] The text says GRB 051109B has a limit F<0.15 f_1998bw, but Table A3 lists f_1998bw<0.26. Please reconcile these values.
  2. [§4.1] The L-Weak fraction at z<0.5 is printed as f=0.13±0.6; this should presumably be 0.13±0.06.
  3. [Table A1] GRB 211227A has T90=83.51 s but is classified as “Short+EE” in the Duration Class column; likely should be “Long+EE” or the T90 value should be checked.
  4. [Fig. 2 caption] The caption states the limit is “5% at f_1998bw=0.26,” but the text describes 0.26 as the 2σ lower limit of a log-normal fit. Clarify the relationship between these statements.
  5. [§5.2] The text normalizes rates at z=0.1, while the Figure 4 caption says z=0.15. Please make the normalization redshift consistent.
  6. [Throughout] There are several typographical errors, e.g., “V olumetric” in Fig. 11, “signficantly,” “noramlised,” and “it the sample” in §4.2. A careful proofread is needed.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged

Partial circularity: the L-Merger class is partly defined by quiescent/ancient hosts, and the supernova-ruleout threshold is fitted to the same GRB-SN sample it is used to test; the central claim nevertheless retains independent kilonova and deep-limit support.

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 2.2 (threshold f_1998bw = 0.26), Figure 2; applied in categories (ii) and Conclusions (ii)]
    "To determine whether we can confidently rule out a supernova counterpart for GRBs, we fit a log-normal distribution to the f 1998bw values for GRBs with confirmed and potential supernovae (Figure 2). We use the 2-σ lower limit of f 1998bw = 0.26 from the fitted log-normal distribution as our criteria to distinguish between GRBs with robust and weak constraints on a supernova counterpart."

    The criterion is estimated from the same GRB-SNe that it is then used to rule out. Because those SNe were selected by being detected, the fitted log-normal cannot constrain a faint or heavily extincted tail of GRB-SNe below the detection threshold; using its 2σ lower limit to declare that a non-detection 'rules out' a supernova assumes completeness of the very sample subject to the selection effect. The later conclusion that 'This lack of supernova cannot be attributed to a broad spread in supernova luminosities' therefore restates that completeness assumption, and the L-Merger count / 31% fraction is partly forced by this fitted cutoff rather than by an independent luminosity function.

  2. self definitional [Section 2.2 class definition vs Section 3.5 host-galaxy comparison and Conclusions (iv)]
    "(ii) "L-merger": Long GRBs without supernovae (f 1998bw <0.26) and/or in quiescent/ancient galaxies (green in figures). ... L-merger GRB hosts have substantially lower SFR and higher stellar mass compared to the hosts of most known collapsar and cosmological long GRBs."

    The L-Merger class is partly defined by being 'in quiescent/ancient galaxies'; the later demonstration that L-Mergers have lower SFR and higher stellar mass is therefore built into the definition for those members. The host-galaxy 'support' for the merger interpretation restates the classification criterion rather than independently testing it, and it is only non-tautological for L-Mergers classified solely by f_1998bw < 0.26 or by kilonova. This inflates the apparent host-property contrast in Section 3.5 and Conclusion (iv).

full rationale

The central qualitative claim—that a significant fraction of nearby long GRBs lack massive-star counterparts—is not purely circular: it is supported by direct kilonova associations (GRBs 211211A, 230307A), by several extremely deep SN limits (f_1998bw < 0.01–0.02), and by independent afterglow faintness and Amati-relation offsets that are not part of the L-Merger definition. However, two load-bearing steps are partially circular. First, the discriminating threshold f_1998bw = 0.26 is the 2σ lower limit of a log-normal fitted to the same GRB-SN sample that it is used to test; any faint or extincted GRB-SNe missing from that sample by selection are invisible to the fit, so the claim that non-detections cannot be explained by a broad SN luminosity spread is not independently established. Second, the L-Merger category is partly defined by quiescent/ancient host galaxies, so the subsequent finding that L-Mergers have lower-SFR hosts is tautological for those members. These issues affect the quantitative merger fraction and the host-property support, but do not overturn the existence of a supernova-less long-GRB population. There is no meaningful self-citation chain or imported uniqueness theorem; the cited kilonova and afterglow work includes independent or externally checkable evidence. Overall, partial circularity is present, but the central claim retains substantial independent content, yielding score 4.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

8 free parameters · 6 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on a classification threshold fitted to the same sample, on completeness assumptions, and on the interpretive leap from SN absence to merger origin. No new physical entities are introduced; the 'L-Merger' category is a classification label, not a new object.

free parameters (8)
  • f_1998bw = 0.26 threshold = 0.26
    2-σ lower limit of a log-normal fit to confirmed GRB-SN f_1998bw values; used to separate L-Merger from L-Weak classes (Section 2.2). Changing this threshold shifts the L-Merger fraction.
  • Log-normal fit parameters for GRB-SN f_1998bw distribution = not tabulated
    Fit to GRBs with confirmed/potential supernovae (Figure 2); defines the classification boundary.
  • Redshift completeness η_z = 1 = 1
    Rate calculations assume 100% redshift completeness; Section 4.3 notes this could be revised upward by ~2× for incompleteness.
  • Beaming fraction f_b = 1 = 1
    Rates are on-axis only; true volumetric rates are higher by 1/f_b if jets are beamed.
  • L_iso threshold 10^48 erg/s = 10^48 erg/s
    Imposed in rate calculations to remove the most local, low-luminosity events (e.g., GRB 111005A); stated to strongly affect inferred rates.
  • Swift duty cycle ε=0.75 and sky fraction Ω=0.16 = ε=0.75, Ω=0.16
    Standard instrument values used in Eq. 1 for volumetric rates.
  • Flux/fluence thresholds for rate estimation = S/N, fluence 2.5e-7 erg/cm², peak flux 5e-8 erg/cm²/s, photon flux 0.5 ph/cm²/s
    Four ad hoc detectability cuts used to bracket uncertainties; rates vary by factor ~2–5 between them.
  • P_cc < 0.1 host association threshold = 0.1
    Adopted from Fong et al. (2022) for accepting host redshifts; a small fraction of associations may be spurious.
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Supernova emission (or its deep non-detection) reliably discriminates collapsar from merger progenitors.
    Section 2.2 states 'we elect to use the detection or deep limits on a GRB supernova counterpart... as our primary discriminant.'
  • domain assumption The GRB-supernova luminosity distribution is log-normal and is well characterized by the fitted sample.
    Section 2.2 fits a log-normal to confirmed GRB-SNe and uses its 2-σ lower limit as the classification threshold.
  • domain assumption The z<0.3 Swift/XRT sample is sufficiently representative for type-fraction estimates.
    The paper acknowledges only ~25% of Swift GRBs have redshifts and estimates ~50% completeness (Sections 4.2).
  • standard math Standard ΛCDM cosmology.
    Section 1 assumes Planck Collaboration et al. (2020) cosmology for distance and volume calculations.
  • ad hoc to paper The 'most economical' interpretation of SN-less long GRBs is compact-object merger.
    Section 2 states 'it is more economical (i.e. does not require an additional progenitor) to consider a merger origin,' while acknowledging failed supernovae as an alternative.
  • domain assumption The ZTF Bright Transient Survey Type Ic supernova luminosity distribution is representative of GRB-supernova luminosities.
    Figure 2 compares the BTS histogram to GRB-SN limits to argue that deep non-detections rule out most core-collapse supernovae.

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Recently, several long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with kilonovae have cast doubt on the traditional, dichotomous mapping between gamma-ray duration and progenitor system. Here, we investigate the rates and properties of bursts which appear to cross this dichotomy using a sample of GRBs for which progenitor constraints are possible. We first build a sample of known Swift-detected GRBs at z<0.3, finding 8 short- and 21 long-duration GRBs. Of these long GRBs, we find 9 bursts with deep limits on supernova emission, evidence for kilonova emission, or association with a quiescent galaxy (31% $\pm$ 9% of all GRBs at z<0.3), implying that a significant fraction of nearby long GRBs likely do not come from massive stars. At z<0.3, no short GRB has an observed supernova counterpart. We find comparable numbers when expanding to z<0.5 and other gamma-ray telescopes, though we obtain a decreased fraction of bursts with robust constraints on a progenitor. We further find that the long GRBs with no associated supernovae possess on-average fainter afterglows and lie in less star-forming host galaxies than those with supernovae, supporting that these events may originate in compact object mergers. We estimate approximate volumetric rates, finding similar (on-axis) rates for short GRBs and supernova-less long GRBs of $\sim 0.5-2.5$ Gpc$^{-3}$ yr$^{-1}$, although a search for possible low-redshift hosts of the complete Swift catalog suggests that our sample may be $\sim$50% complete. If supernova-less long GRBs arise from compact object mergers, this implies that $\sim$ 30-70% of all z<0.3 Swift long GRBs may arise from mergers and that the $z<0.3$ rates of mergers from long and short GRBs are comparable. These findings hold substantial implications for gravitational-wave coincidence and heavy element enrichment.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.26133 by Andrew J. Levan, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Ashley A. Chrimes, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Daniele B. Malesani, Eric Burns, Gavin P. Lamb, Helena-Margaret S. Grabham, Ilya Mandel, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Nial R. Tanvir, Nikhil Sarin, Om Salafia, Peter G. Jonker.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Hardness duration diagram for Swift GRBs in our sample at z < 0.5. The background points indicate the whole Swift population. The location of bursts at z < 0.3 are indicated in bold, while those at 0.3 < z < 0.5 are more transparent versions of the same sample symbol. The proposed progenitor types for each burst are marked. found by the recently-launched Einstein Probe (Yuan et al. 2022), unless these FXTs… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Supernova properties shown to vary over GRB duration time T90(s). Top panel: Nickel masses, MNi (M⊙) vs duration from the sample of GRBs at z < 0.3 and z < 0.5. Bottom Panel: Supernova brightness measured as a fraction of SN 1998bw vs GRB duration. Vertical red dashed lines indicate the range of values corresponding to GRBs 100316D and 190829A. All scales are represented logarithmically. Points correspondi… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Optical detections and upper limits on the supernova and kilo￾nova counterparts to our z < 0.3 sample of GRBs (Swift GRBs at z < 0.3; Bloom et al. 2006; Hjorth et al. 2005b; Berger et al. 2005; Malesani et al. 2007; Kocevski et al. 2007; Fynbo et al. 2006; Chornock et al. 2010; Rowl￾inson et al. 2010a; Melandri et al. 2012; Jin et al. 2015; Cano et al. 2017a; Michałowski et al. 2018; Troja et al. 2018; Izz… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Fractions of GRBs in different classes based on different samples of comparison. GRBs are split according to the 5 different burst groups. Our primary sample (Swift z < 0.3) has the largest fraction of events which lie in the likely long-merger category (T90 > 2s, no-supernova or ancient hosts). This may arise from a combination of better limits at low redshift, and gen￾uine source rate evolution in higher… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Box plots displaying the core parameters of interest in distinguishing between merger and collapsar GRBs for the z < 0.3 sample (left) and z < 0.5 sample (right). The vertical center line, colored box, and horizontal black lines denote the median, 50 percent and 99.7% confidence intervals in each parameter, respectively. While the strongest distinctions are unsurprisingly based on duration, it is also appa… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Isotropic-equivalent energy Eiso and peak energy Epeak for z < 0.5 Swift GRBs also detected by Fermi (circles; von Kienlin et al. 2020) or Konus-Wind (triangles; Tsvetkova et al. 2017, 2021). We also plot additional Fermi and Konus-Wind GRBs with known redshifts (grey) in the background and GRB 230307A. As expected, long GRBs from collapsars trace the Amati relation, while S-Merger and S-Weak bursts sit at… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Mass and specific SFRs of GRB host galaxies for long (see Ta￾ble A4 for references) and short (Nugent et al. 2022) GRBs, overlayed with the sample of Swift GRBs at z < 0.3. In general it is apparent that the host galaxies of the L-Merger GRBs are substantially less star forming that those of the Collapsar bursts, and are consistent with those for S-Mergers. We also note the outlier nature of GRB 190829A wh… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The X-ray (top) and optical (bottom) afterglows of GRBs witin our sample, plotted in luminosity and aboslute magnitude space. It is apparent that in both regimes the the collapsar population spans a very wide range of brightness, especially at late times. This likely reflects the low-luminosity and normal populations of GRBs, with higher luminosity events prevalent at higher redshift. In contrast the sugge… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The distribution of chance alignment probability of galaxies at z < 0.5 in the legacy survey compared to Swift-XRT positions. The blue line shows the distribution of PCC for the complete Swift-XRT GRB catalog, the orange line shows the same, but with events already within our samples re￾moved, while the grey lines represent cases where the XRT positions have been offset in random directions by 1 arcminute… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Volumetric rates of our Swift GRB classes (z < 0.5 and z < 0.3 is shown in opaque and moderately transparent bars, respectively) calcu￾lated using different approaches (Section 4). The bulk differences between the techniques of a factor ∼ 2 reflect substantial underlying uncertainty but provide general consistency in the relative rates of each progenitor channel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Characteristic cosmic evolution in the populations of BNSs and collapsars. In general, collapsars are expected to form preferentially in low metallicity environments and so occur on average at higher redshifts than the bulk of the star formation. In contrast, BNS mergers form via gravitational radiation induced orbital shrinkage which follows the SFR by some delay time. As a consequence of this, if simila… view at source ↗

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