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A fundamental requirement for reionizing the Universe is that a sufficient fraction of the ionizing photons emitted by galaxies successfully escapes into the intergalactic medium. However, due to the scarcity of high-redshift observational…

In this work we investigate the dependence of the escape fraction of ionizing photons, $f_{\rm esc}$, on various galaxy and host halo properties during the epoch of reionization. We post-process the TNG50 magneto-hydrodynamical simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Ivan Kostyuk , Dylan Nelson , Benedetta Ciardi , Martin Glatzle , Annalisa Pillepich

Reionization is thought to have occurred in the redshift range of $6 < z < 9$, which is now being probed by both deep galaxy surveys and CMB observations. Using halo abundance matching over the redshift range $5<z<8$ and assuming smooth,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Guochao Sun , Steven R. Furlanetto

Combing the three-dimensional radiative transfer (RT) calculation and cosmological SPH simulations, we study the escape fraction of ionizing photons (f_esc) of high-redshift galaxies at z=3-6. Our simulations cover the halo mass range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Hidenobu Yajima , Jun-Hwan Choi , Kentaro Nagamine

We measure escape fractions, $f_{\rm esc}$, of ionizing radiation from galaxies in the SPHINX suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of reionization, resolving halos with $M_{\rm vir} \gtrapprox 7.5 \times 10^7 \…

Recent data indicates that the cosmic UV emissivity decreased with decreasing redshift z near the end of reionization. Lacking evidence for very massive early stars, this could signal a decline with time in the mass-averaged escape fraction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Ferrara , A. Loeb

Cosmic reionization is thought to be primarily fueled by the first generations of galaxies. We examine their stellar and gaseous properties, focusing on the star formation rates and the escape of ionizing photons, as a function of halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Hao Xu , John H. Wise , Michael L. Norman , Kyungjin Ahn , Brian W. O'Shea

The sources that reionized the universe are still unknown, but likely candidates are faint but numerous galaxies. In this paper we present results from running a high resolution, uniform volume simulation, the Vulcan, to predict the number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Lauren Anderson , Fabio Governato , Michael Karcher , Tom Quinn , James Wadsley

Using our cosmological radiative transfer code, we study the implications of the updated QSO emissivity and star formation history for the escape fraction (f_esc) of hydrogen ionizing photons from galaxies. We estimate the f_esc that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-13 Vikram Khaire , Raghunathan Srianand , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Prakash Gaikwad

We study the escape fraction of ionizing photons (f_esc) in two cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxies in the reionization era with halo mass M_halo~10^10 and 10^11 M_sun (stellar mass M*~10^7 and 10^9 M_sun) at z=5 from the Feedback…

The fraction of ionizing photons escaping from galaxies, $f_{esc}$, is at the same time a crucial parameter in modelling reionization and a very poorly known quantity, especially at high redshift. Recent observations are starting to…

The escape fraction, fesc, of ionizing photons from early galaxies is a crucial parameter for determining whether the observed galaxies at z > 6 are able to reionize the high-redshift intergalactic medium. Previous attempts to measure fesc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Elizabeth R. Fernandez , J. Michael Shull

The escape fraction of ionising photons from galaxies ($f_\mathrm{esc}$) is a key parameter for understanding how intergalactic hydrogen became reionised, but it remains mostly unconstrained. Measurements have been limited to the average…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Kimi C. Kreilgaard , Charlotte A. Mason , Fergus Cullen , Ryan Begley , Ross J. McLure

The escape fraction, f_{esc}, of ionizing photons from high-redshift galaxies is a key parameter to understand cosmic reionization and star formation history. Yet, in spite of many efforts, it remains largely uncertain. We propose a novel,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourav Mitra , Andrea Ferrara , T. Roy Choudhury

Several observational and theoretical arguments suggest that starburst galaxies may rival quasars as sources of metagalactic ionizing radiation at redshifts z > 3. Reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z > 5 may arise, in part,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Massimo Ricotti , J. Michael Shull

We present model calculations of the reionization history of hydrogen using star formation histories, computed with a galaxy formation model which reproduces properties of local dwarf galaxies and UV luminosity functions of galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-12 Zewei Wu , Andrey Kravtsov , Harley Katz

We study the reionization of the Universe due to haloes that host galaxies undergoing bursts of star formation. By comparing the recent results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Nachiket Joshi , Mahavir Sharma

Early results from JWST suggest that epoch-of-reionization (EoR) galaxies produce copious ionizing photons, which, if they escape efficiently, could cause reionization to occur too early. We study this problem using \jwst\ imaging and prism…

Galaxies forming in low-mass halos are thought to be primarily responsible for reionizing the Universe during the first billion years after the Big Bang. Yet, these halos are extremely inefficient at forming stars in the nearby Universe. In…

The protagonists of cosmic reionization remain elusive. Faint star-forming galaxies are leading candidates because they are numerous and may have significant ionizing photon escape fractions ($f_{esc}$). Here we update this picture via an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-07 Rohan P. Naidu , Sandro Tacchella , Charlotte A. Mason , Sownak Bose , Pascal A. Oesch , Charlie Conroy
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