Reionization in Technicolor

Abstract

We present the Technicolor Dawn simulations, a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the first 1.2 billion years. By modeling a spatially-inhomogeneous UVB on-the-fly with 24 frequencies and resolving dark matter halos down to $10^8{M}_{\odot }$ within 12 $h^{-1}$ Mpc volumes, our simulations unify observations of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media, galaxies, and reionization into a common framework. The only empirically-tuned parameter, the fraction $f_{\mathrm{esc},\mathrm{gal}}(z)$ of ionizing photons that escape the interstellar medium, is adjusted to match observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and the cosmic microwave background. With this single calibration, our simulations reproduce the history of reionization; the stellar mass-star formation rate relation of galaxies; the number density and metallicity of damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) at $z\sim 5$; the abundance of weak metal absorbers; the ultraviolet background (UVB) amplitude; and the Lyman-$\alpha$ flux power spectrum at $z=5.4$. The galaxy stellar mass and UV luminosity functions are underproduced by $\le 2\times$, suggesting an overly vigorous feedback model. The mean transmission in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is underproduced at $z<6$, indicating tension between measurements of the UVB amplitude and Lyman-$\alpha$ transmission. The observed SiIV column density distribution is reasonably well-reproduced ($\sim 1\sigma$ low). By contrast, CIV remains significantly underproduced despite being boosted by an intense $>4$ Ryd UVB. Solving this problem by increasing metal yields would overproduce both weak absorbers and DLA metallicities. Instead, the observed strength of high-ionization emission from high-redshift galaxies and absorption from their environments suggest that the ionizing flux from conventional stellar population models is too soft.

arXiv comment24 pages, 17 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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