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Main Authors: Ma, Qing-Bo, Chen, Xiao-Rong, Li, Ming, Guo, Qi, Ciardi, Benedetta, Acharya, Anshuman, Wang, Xin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19422
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author Ma, Qing-Bo
Chen, Xiao-Rong
Li, Ming
Guo, Qi
Ciardi, Benedetta
Acharya, Anshuman
Wang, Xin
author_facet Ma, Qing-Bo
Chen, Xiao-Rong
Li, Ming
Guo, Qi
Ciardi, Benedetta
Acharya, Anshuman
Wang, Xin
contents We use high resolution N-body dark matter simulations and L-Galaxies semi-analytical galaxy formation models to explore the high-$z$ galaxy properties and estimate the budget of ionizing photons. The parameters within L-Galaxies are obtained using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method with high-$z$ galaxy observations from JWST and other telescopes. We consider two versions of L-Galaxies with and without dust correction on galaxy UV luminosities. With the best-fit parameters, both L-Galaxies 2015 and L-Galaxies 2020 reproduce well observations of UV luminosity functions, stellar mass functions, star formation rate densities and ionizing photon emission efficiency. With the assumption of escape fraction of $20\%$, all models produce more ionizing photons than the number of Hydrogen atoms in the Universe at $z>6$. The inclusion of dust correction within MCMC results in higher star formation efficiency, which predicts $\sim 50\%$ more ionizing photons, with better consistency between the predicted stellar mass functions and observations.
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spellingShingle Constraints on the galaxy formation models during epoch of reionization with high redshift observations
Ma, Qing-Bo
Chen, Xiao-Rong
Li, Ming
Guo, Qi
Ciardi, Benedetta
Acharya, Anshuman
Wang, Xin
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
We use high resolution N-body dark matter simulations and L-Galaxies semi-analytical galaxy formation models to explore the high-$z$ galaxy properties and estimate the budget of ionizing photons. The parameters within L-Galaxies are obtained using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method with high-$z$ galaxy observations from JWST and other telescopes. We consider two versions of L-Galaxies with and without dust correction on galaxy UV luminosities. With the best-fit parameters, both L-Galaxies 2015 and L-Galaxies 2020 reproduce well observations of UV luminosity functions, stellar mass functions, star formation rate densities and ionizing photon emission efficiency. With the assumption of escape fraction of $20\%$, all models produce more ionizing photons than the number of Hydrogen atoms in the Universe at $z>6$. The inclusion of dust correction within MCMC results in higher star formation efficiency, which predicts $\sim 50\%$ more ionizing photons, with better consistency between the predicted stellar mass functions and observations.
title Constraints on the galaxy formation models during epoch of reionization with high redshift observations
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19422