Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity History
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| author | D'Silva, Jordan C. J. Driver, Simon P. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Robotham, Aaron S. G. Adams, Nathan J. Conselice, Christopher J. Frye, Brenda Hathi, Nimish P. Harvey, Thomas Koekemoer, Anton M. Ortiz III, Rafael Ricotti, Massimo Robertson, Clayton Silver, Ross M. Wilkins, Stephen M. Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Cohen, Seth H. Jansen, Rolf A. Summers, Jake Coe, Dan Grogin, Norman A. Marshall, Madeline A. Pirzkal, Nor Ryan Jr., Russell E. Yan, Haojing |
| author_facet | D'Silva, Jordan C. J. Driver, Simon P. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Robotham, Aaron S. G. Adams, Nathan J. Conselice, Christopher J. Frye, Brenda Hathi, Nimish P. Harvey, Thomas Koekemoer, Anton M. Ortiz III, Rafael Ricotti, Massimo Robertson, Clayton Silver, Ross M. Wilkins, Stephen M. Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Cohen, Seth H. Jansen, Rolf A. Summers, Jake Coe, Dan Grogin, Norman A. Marshall, Madeline A. Pirzkal, Nor Ryan Jr., Russell E. Yan, Haojing |
| contents | The combination of the $z=0-13.5$ cosmic star formation history and active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history as inferred by the James Webb Space Telescope is connected to the cosmic spectral energy distribution (CSED) to explore the sources of reionisation. We compute the redshift evolution of the corresponding cosmic ionising photon emissivity, the neutral fraction and the cosmic microwave background optical depth. We use the generative SED modelling code ProSpect to bracket the ionising emissivity between escape fractions of $f_{\mathrm{esc}} = 1 - 100\%$ for both the stars and AGN. Stars alone could have achieved reionisation by $z\approx 6$ with $f_{\mathrm{esc}} \gtrsim 30\%$ for solar metallicity ($Z=0.02$) stars or $f_{\mathrm{esc}} \gtrsim 10\%$ for metal-poor ($Z=10^{-4}$) stars. On the other hand, AGN by themselves would have struggled to produce sufficiently many ionising photons even with $f_{\mathrm{esc}} = 100\%$. A hybrid model containing both stars and AGN is explored where we find best fit (median$\pm 1σ$) $f_{\mathrm{esc}}=$ $12\%$ ($14^{+9}_{-7}\%$) for the stars and $f_{\mathrm{esc}}=$ $63\%$ ($60^{+28}_{-32}\%$) for the AGN, maintained at all redshifts. In essence, the joint growth of stellar mass and supermassive black holes produces neither more nor fewer ionising photons than needed to reionise $\gtrsim 99\%$ of the intergalactic medium by $z\approx 6$. |
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| spellingShingle | Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity History D'Silva, Jordan C. J. Driver, Simon P. Lagos, Claudia D. P. Robotham, Aaron S. G. Adams, Nathan J. Conselice, Christopher J. Frye, Brenda Hathi, Nimish P. Harvey, Thomas Koekemoer, Anton M. Ortiz III, Rafael Ricotti, Massimo Robertson, Clayton Silver, Ross M. Wilkins, Stephen M. Willmer, Christopher N. A. Windhorst, Rogier A. Cohen, Seth H. Jansen, Rolf A. Summers, Jake Coe, Dan Grogin, Norman A. Marshall, Madeline A. Pirzkal, Nor Ryan Jr., Russell E. Yan, Haojing Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The combination of the $z=0-13.5$ cosmic star formation history and active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity history as inferred by the James Webb Space Telescope is connected to the cosmic spectral energy distribution (CSED) to explore the sources of reionisation. We compute the redshift evolution of the corresponding cosmic ionising photon emissivity, the neutral fraction and the cosmic microwave background optical depth. We use the generative SED modelling code ProSpect to bracket the ionising emissivity between escape fractions of $f_{\mathrm{esc}} = 1 - 100\%$ for both the stars and AGN. Stars alone could have achieved reionisation by $z\approx 6$ with $f_{\mathrm{esc}} \gtrsim 30\%$ for solar metallicity ($Z=0.02$) stars or $f_{\mathrm{esc}} \gtrsim 10\%$ for metal-poor ($Z=10^{-4}$) stars. On the other hand, AGN by themselves would have struggled to produce sufficiently many ionising photons even with $f_{\mathrm{esc}} = 100\%$. A hybrid model containing both stars and AGN is explored where we find best fit (median$\pm 1σ$) $f_{\mathrm{esc}}=$ $12\%$ ($14^{+9}_{-7}\%$) for the stars and $f_{\mathrm{esc}}=$ $63\%$ ($60^{+28}_{-32}\%$) for the AGN, maintained at all redshifts. In essence, the joint growth of stellar mass and supermassive black holes produces neither more nor fewer ionising photons than needed to reionise $\gtrsim 99\%$ of the intergalactic medium by $z\approx 6$. |
| title | Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and Active Galactic Nuclei Luminosity History |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16112 |