Digging into the ultraviolet luminosity functions of galaxies at high redshifts: galaxies evolution, reionization, and cosmological parameters

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Autores principales: Wang, Yi-Ying, Lei, Lei, Tang, Shao-Peng, Yuan, Guan-Wen, Fan, Yi-Zhong
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author Wang, Yi-Ying
Lei, Lei
Tang, Shao-Peng
Yuan, Guan-Wen
Fan, Yi-Zhong
author_facet Wang, Yi-Ying
Lei, Lei
Tang, Shao-Peng
Yuan, Guan-Wen
Fan, Yi-Zhong
contents Thanks to the successful performance of the James Webb Space Telescope, our understanding of the epoch of reionization of the Universe has been advanced. The ultraviolet luminosity functions (UV LFs) of galaxies span a wide range of redshift, not only revealing the connection between galaxies and dark matter (DM) halos but also providing the information during reionization. In this work, we develop a model connecting galaxy counts and apparent magnitude based on UV LFs, which incorporates redshift-dependent star formation efficiency (SFE) and corrections for dust attenuation. By synthesizing some observations across the redshift range $4\le z \le 10$ from various galaxy surveys, we discern the evolving SFE with increasing redshift and DM halo mass through model fitting. Subsequent analyses indicate that the Thomson scattering optical depth was $τ_{\rm e} = 0.054^{+0.001}_{-0.003}$ and the epoch of reionization started (ended) at $z=18.8^{+7.2}_{-6.0}$ ($z=5.3^{+0.8}_{-1.0}$) which is insensitive to the choice of the truncated magnitude of the UV LFs. Incorporating additional dataset and some reasonable constraints, the amplitude of matter perturbation is found to be $σ_8=0.80\pm0.05$, which is consistent with the standard $Λ$CDM model. Future galaxy surveys and the dynamical simulations of galaxy evolution will break the degeneracy between SFE and cosmological parameters, improving the accuracy and the precision of the UV LF model further.
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spellingShingle Digging into the ultraviolet luminosity functions of galaxies at high redshifts: galaxies evolution, reionization, and cosmological parameters
Wang, Yi-Ying
Lei, Lei
Tang, Shao-Peng
Yuan, Guan-Wen
Fan, Yi-Zhong
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Thanks to the successful performance of the James Webb Space Telescope, our understanding of the epoch of reionization of the Universe has been advanced. The ultraviolet luminosity functions (UV LFs) of galaxies span a wide range of redshift, not only revealing the connection between galaxies and dark matter (DM) halos but also providing the information during reionization. In this work, we develop a model connecting galaxy counts and apparent magnitude based on UV LFs, which incorporates redshift-dependent star formation efficiency (SFE) and corrections for dust attenuation. By synthesizing some observations across the redshift range $4\le z \le 10$ from various galaxy surveys, we discern the evolving SFE with increasing redshift and DM halo mass through model fitting. Subsequent analyses indicate that the Thomson scattering optical depth was $τ_{\rm e} = 0.054^{+0.001}_{-0.003}$ and the epoch of reionization started (ended) at $z=18.8^{+7.2}_{-6.0}$ ($z=5.3^{+0.8}_{-1.0}$) which is insensitive to the choice of the truncated magnitude of the UV LFs. Incorporating additional dataset and some reasonable constraints, the amplitude of matter perturbation is found to be $σ_8=0.80\pm0.05$, which is consistent with the standard $Λ$CDM model. Future galaxy surveys and the dynamical simulations of galaxy evolution will break the degeneracy between SFE and cosmological parameters, improving the accuracy and the precision of the UV LF model further.
title Digging into the ultraviolet luminosity functions of galaxies at high redshifts: galaxies evolution, reionization, and cosmological parameters
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09350