Radiation from early black holes - I: effects on the neutral inter-galactic medium

Abstract

In the pre-reionization Universe, the regions of the inter-galactic medium (IGM) which are far from luminous sources are the last to undergo reionization. Until then, they should be scarcely affected by stellar radiation; instead, the X-ray emission from an early black hole (BH) population can have much larger influence. We investigate the effects of such emission, looking at a number of BH model populations (differing for the cosmological density evolution of BHs, the BH properties, and the spectral energy distribution of the BH emission). We find that BH radiation can easily heat the IGM to 10^3-10^4 K, while achieving partial ionization. The most interesting consequence of this heating is that BHs are expected to induce a 21-cm signal (delta T_b ~ 20-30 mK at z<~12) which should be observable with forthcoming experiments (e.g. LOFAR). We also find that at z<~10 BH emission strongly increases the critical mass separating star-forming and non-star-forming halos.

17 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication on MNRAS

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