Universe (Sep 2021)

The Epoch of Reionization in Warm Dark Matter Scenarios

  • Massimiliano Romanello,
  • Nicola Menci,
  • Marco Castellano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe7100365
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 10
p. 365

Abstract

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In this paper we investigate how the Reionization process is affected by early galaxy formation in different cosmological scenarios. We use a semi-analytic model with suppressed initial power spectra to obtain the UV Luminosity Function in thermal Warm Dark Matter and sterile neutrino cosmologies. We retrace the ionization history of intergalactic medium with hot stellar emission only, exploiting fixed and variable photons escape fraction models (fesc). For each cosmology, we find an upper limit to fixed fesc, which guarantees the completion of the process at z6.7. The analysis is tested with two limit hypothesis on high-z ionized hydrogen volume fraction, comparing our predictions with observational results.

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