Cosmic reionization after Planck

Abstract

Cosmic reionization holds the key to understand structure formation in the Universe, and can inform us about the properties of the first sources, as their star formation efficiency and escape fraction of ionizing photons. By combining the recent release of Planck electron scattering optical depth data with observations of high-redshift quasar absorption spectra, we obtain strong constraints on viable reionization histories. We show that inclusion of Planck data favors a reionization scenario with a single stellar population. The mean $x_{\mathrm{HI}}$ drops from $\sim 0.8$ at $z=10.6$ to $\sim 10^{-4}$ at $z=5.8$ and reionization is completed around $5.8\lesssim z\lesssim 8.5$ (2-$\sigma$), thus indicating a significant reduction in contributions to reionization from high redshift sources. We can put independent constraints on the escape fraction $f_{\mathrm{esc}}$ of ionizing photons by incorporating the high-redshift galaxy luminosity function data into our analysis. We find a non-evolving $f_{\mathrm{esc}}$ of $\sim 10\%$ in the redshift range $z=6-9$.

Accepted in MNRAS Letters. Revised to match the accepted version

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