A self-consistent analytical model for both the photoionization rate and reionization history
Christopher Cain, Kevin S. Croker, Anson D'Aloisio, Ivelin Georgiev, Hurum Maksora Tohfa, Yongda Zhu, Rogier Windhorst
astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-06-17
Comments: 22 pages, 8 figures (main text) + 4 pages (appendices). Prepared for submission to JCAP. Comments welcome!
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
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- Cosmic Reionization and Early Star-Forming Galaxies: A Joint Analysis of New Constraints from Planck and Hubble Space Telescope
- Conditions for Reionizing the Universe with A Low Galaxy Ionizing Photon Escape Fraction
- Dispu$\tau$able: the high cost of a low optical depth
- Model-independent evidence in favor of an end to reionization by z~6
- Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Ly$\alpha$ trough below redshift six
- The mean free path of ionizing photons at 5 < z < 6: evidence for rapid evolution near reionization
- Hydrogen reionisation ends by $z=5.3$: Lyman-$\alpha$ optical depth measured by the XQR-30 sample
- Measuring the photo-ionization rate, neutral fraction and mean free path of HI ionizing photons at $4.9 \leq z \leq 6.0$ from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra
- Damping Wing-Like Features in the Stacked Ly$\alpha$ Forest: Potential Neutral Hydrogen Islands at $z<6$
- Damping wings in the Lyman-{\alpha} forest: a model-independent measurement of the neutral fraction at 5.4<z<6.1
- IGM damping wing constraints on the tail end of reionisation from the enlarged XQR-30 sample
- Precisely Measuring the Cosmic Reionization History from IGM Damping Wings Towards Quasars
- JWST Measurements of Neutral Hydrogen Fractions and Ionized Bubble Sizes at $z=7-12$ Obtained with Ly$\alpha$ Damping Wing Absorptions in 27 Bright Continuum Galaxies
- Beacons into the Cosmic Dark Ages: Boosted transmission of Ly$\alpha$ from UV bright galaxies at $z \gtrsim 7$
- Ly$\alpha$ Emission at $z=7-13$: Clear Ly$\alpha$ Equivalent Width Evolution Indicating the Late Cosmic Reionization History
- A GLIMPSE of the 99%: a census of the faintest galaxies during the epoch of reionization and its implications for galaxy formation models
- Improved limits on the 21cm signal at z=6.5-7.0 with the MWA using Gaussian information
- Census of Ly$\alpha$ Emission from $\sim 600$ Galaxies at $z=5-14$: Evolution of the Ly$\alpha$ Luminosity Function and a Late Sharp Cosmic Reionization
- EPOCHS Paper II: The Ultraviolet Luminosity Function from $7.5<z<13.5$ using 180 square arcminutes of deep, blank-fields from the PEARLS Survey and Public JWST data
- JWST PRIMER: A new multi-field determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts $\mathbf{z \simeq 9-15}$
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