2009

Determining the escape fraction of ionizing photons during reionization with the GRB derived star-formation rate

Wyithe, Stuart, Hopkins, Andrew M., Kistler, Matthew D. et al.

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The fraction of ionizing photons that escape their host galaxies and so are able to ionize hydrogen in the inter-galactic medium (IGM) is a critical parameter in analyses of the reionization era and early galaxy formation.

Studies of the reionization history normally suffer from a degeneracy between the unknown values for the efficiency with which high redshift galaxies turn mass into stars and the escape fraction of ionizing photons.
Recent gamma-ray burst (GRB) measurements of the star formation rate density during reionization provide the first opportunity to break this degeneracy.
We confront a semi-analytic model for reionization with the GRB-derived star formation rate, as well as observations of the Ly-alpha forest and the CMB.

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