Photoevaporation of Minihalos during Cosmic Reionization: Primordial and Metal-Enriched Halos

Abstract

The density distribution of the inter-galactic medium is an uncertain but highly important issue in the study of cosmic reionization. It is expected that there are abundant gas clouds hosted by low-mass "minihalos" in the early universe, which act as photon sinks until photoevaporated by the emerging ultra-violet background (UVB) radiation. We perform a suite of radiation hydrodynamics simulations to study the photoevaporation of minihalos. Our simulations follow hydrodynamics, non-equilibrium chemistry, and the associated cooling processes in a self-consistent manner. We conduct a parametric study by considering a wide range of gas metallicity ($0Z_{\odot }\le Z\le 10^{-3}{Z}_{\odot }$), halo mass ($10^3{M}_{\odot }\le M\le 10^8{M}_{\odot }$), UVB intensity ($0.01\le J_{21}\le 1$), and turn-on redshift of ionizing sources ($10\le z_{\mathrm{IN}}\le 20$). We show that small halos are evaporated in a few tens million years, whereas larger mass halos survive for ten times longer. We show that the gas mass evolution of a minihalo can be characterized by a scaling parameter that is given by a combination of the halo mass, background radiation intensity, and redshift. Efficient radiative cooling in metal-enriched halos induces fast condensation of the gas to form a dense, self-shielded core. The cold, dense core can become gravitationally unstable in halos with high metallicities. Early metal enrichment may allow star formation in minihalos during cosmic reionization.

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