Cosmic Reionization History and Dark Matter Scenarios

Abstract

We perform an analysis of the cosmic reionization in the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm and in alternative dark matter scenarios. Building upon the work of Corasaniti et al. (2017), we predict the reionization history for CDM, for warm dark matter (WDM), late-forming dark matter (LFDM) and ultra-light axion dark matter (ADM) models which reproduce state-of-art measurements of the galaxy luminosity function at very high-redshifts $6\le z\le 10$. To this purpose we adopt a reionization model parametrized in terms of the limiting UV-magnitude of galaxies contributing to the reionization $M_{\lim }$ and the average effective escape fraction of UV photons reaching the intergalactic medium $\tilde{f}$. For each DM model we compute the redshift evolution of the Thomson scattering optical depth ${\tau }_e(z)$ and the comoving ionization fraction $Q_{\mathrm{HII}}(z)$. We find the different DM models to have similar reionization histories. Differences with respect to the CDM case increase at fainter limiting UV-magnitudes and are degenerate with the effect of varying the reionization model parameters. Using Planck's determination of the integrated optical depth in combination with measurements of the neutral hydrogen fraction at different redshifts, we infer constraints on $\tilde{f}$ and $M_{\lim }$. The results are largely independent of the assumed DM scenario, in particular for $M_{\lim }\gtrsim -13$ we obtain that the effective escape fraction lies in the range $0.07\lesssim \tilde{f}\lesssim 0.15$ at $2\sigma$.

Summary plot is Fig. 8: constraints on escape fraction and UV limiting magnitude for cold and non-cold dark matter. This version matches the published one

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