Abstract
The redshift and luminosity distributions of 36 Swift short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are fitted by connecting their event rates with cosmic star formation rates using power-law distributed delay times
f
(
τ
)
∝
τ
−
1
, where a broken-power-law luminosity function is assumed and some empirical observational selection effects are taken into account. As a result, the most-likely model parameters are constrained to be
ν
1
=
0.91
,
ν
2
=
1.66
as po...
