The Lyman Continuum photon production efficiency ($\xi_ion$) is a
critical ingredient for inferring the number of photons available to reionise
the intergalactic medium. To estimate the theoretical production efficiency in
the high-redshift Universe we couple the BlueTides cosmological hydrodynamical
simulation with a range of stellar population synthesis models. We find Lyman
Continuum photon production efficiencies of $łog_10(\xi_ion/\rm
erg^-1\, Hz)25.1-25.5$ depending on the choice of stellar population
synthesis model. These results are broadly consistent with recent observational
constraints at high-redshift though favour a model incorporating the effects of
binary evolution
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[1512.03214] The Lyman-continuum photon production efficiency in the high-redshift Universe
%0 Generic
%1 wilkins2015lymancontinuum
%A Wilkins, Stephen M.
%A Feng, Yu
%A Di Matteo, Tiziana
%A Croft, Rupert
%A Stanway, Elizabeth R.
%A Bouwens, Rychard J.
%A Thomas, Peter
%D 2015
%K Lyman continuum production reionization simulation
%T The Lyman-continuum photon production efficiency in the high-redshift
Universe
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03214
%X The Lyman Continuum photon production efficiency ($\xi_ion$) is a
critical ingredient for inferring the number of photons available to reionise
the intergalactic medium. To estimate the theoretical production efficiency in
the high-redshift Universe we couple the BlueTides cosmological hydrodynamical
simulation with a range of stellar population synthesis models. We find Lyman
Continuum photon production efficiencies of $łog_10(\xi_ion/\rm
erg^-1\, Hz)25.1-25.5$ depending on the choice of stellar population
synthesis model. These results are broadly consistent with recent observational
constraints at high-redshift though favour a model incorporating the effects of
binary evolution
@misc{wilkins2015lymancontinuum,
abstract = {The Lyman Continuum photon production efficiency ($\xi_{\rm ion}$) is a
critical ingredient for inferring the number of photons available to reionise
the intergalactic medium. To estimate the theoretical production efficiency in
the high-redshift Universe we couple the BlueTides cosmological hydrodynamical
simulation with a range of stellar population synthesis models. We find Lyman
Continuum photon production efficiencies of $\log_{10}(\xi_{\rm ion}/{\rm
erg^{-1}\, Hz})\approx 25.1-25.5$ depending on the choice of stellar population
synthesis model. These results are broadly consistent with recent observational
constraints at high-redshift though favour a model incorporating the effects of
binary evolution},
added-at = {2015-12-11T10:46:11.000+0100},
author = {Wilkins, Stephen M. and Feng, Yu and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Croft, Rupert and Stanway, Elizabeth R. and Bouwens, Rychard J. and Thomas, Peter},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20a25d56d216f81471c23444376d8e4d9/miki},
description = {[1512.03214] The Lyman-continuum photon production efficiency in the high-redshift Universe},
interhash = {cc44b33d25b9ccce853394a96927c98e},
intrahash = {0a25d56d216f81471c23444376d8e4d9},
keywords = {Lyman continuum production reionization simulation},
note = {cite arxiv:1512.03214Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome},
timestamp = {2015-12-11T10:46:11.000+0100},
title = {The Lyman-continuum photon production efficiency in the high-redshift
Universe},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03214},
year = 2015
}