Recombination clumping factor during cosmic reionization

Abstract

We discuss the role of recombinations in the IGM, and the related concept of the clumping factor, during cosmic reionization. The clumping factor is, in general, a local quantity that depends on the local over-density and the scale below which the baryon density field can be assumed smooth. That scale, called the filtering scale, is itself depended on over-density and local thermal history. We present a method for building a self-consistent analytical model of inhomogeneous reionization assuming the linear growth rate of the density fluctuation, which accounts for these effects simultaneously. We show that taking into account the local clumping factor introduces significant corrections to the total recombination rate, comparing to the model with a globally uniform clumping factor.

8 pages, 6 figures, accepted in ApJ

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