The ionizing photon budget and effective clumping factor in radiative transfer simulations calibrated to Lyman-alpha forest data

Shikhar Asthana, Girish Kulkarni, Martin G. Haehnelt +3

Recent JWST observations have allowed for the first time to obtain comprehensive measurements of the ionizing photon production efficiency ${\xi }_{\text{ion}}$ for a wide range of reion…