%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 }