Reionization in the Light of Dark Stars

Abstract

We investigate the effect of Dark Stars (DSs) on the reionization history of the Universe, and the interplay between them and feedback due to Lyman-Werner (LW) radiation in reducing the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) optical depth to a value within the $\tau =0.054\pm 0.007$ range measured by Planck. We use a semi-analytic approach to evaluate reionization histories and CMB optical depths, which includes Population II (Pop II) stars in atomic cooling halos and Pop III stars in minihalos with LW feedback, preceded by a DS phase. We show that while LW feedback by itself can reduce the integrated optical depth to the last scattering surface to $\sim 0.05$ only if the Pop III star formation efficiency is less than $\sim 0.2\%$, the inclusion of a population of DSs can naturally lead to the measured CMB optical depth for much larger Pop III star formation efficiencies $\gtrsim 1\%$.

arXiv comment11 pages, 5 figures

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