Wyithe, Stuart 2009 GRB得到的恒星形成率来定再电离期的escape fraction of ionizing photons

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Title:		Determining the escape fraction of ionizing photons during reionization with the GRB derived star-formation rate
Authors:		Wyithe, Stuart; Hopkins, Andrew M.; Kistler, Matthew D.; Yuksel, Hasan; Beacom, John F.
Publication:		eprint arXiv:0908.0193
Publication Date:		08/2009
Origin:		ARXIV
Keywords:		Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
Comment:		11 pages, 3 Figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Bibliographic Code:		2009arXiv0908.0193W

Abstract

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. Assuming that UV photons produced in star-forming galaxies dominate the reionization process, we show that the escape fraction of ionizing photons from high redshift galaxies is ~5% [log(f_esc)=-1.35+/-0.15 (68%)] for our fiducial model. This value is reasonably stable against uncertainties in the modeling, including the implementation of radiative feedback, the possibility of an evolving escape fraction, and the unknown shape of the IMF, which in sum contribute ~0.2 dex of additional systematic uncertainty on the value of escape fraction.

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