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Title: The Universe is at Most 88% Neutral at z=10.6

Abstract: Recent observations of GN-z11 with JWST have revealed a Ly$\alpha$ emission line with an equivalent width of 18$\pm 2$ angstroms. At z=10.6, this galaxy is expected to lie in the heart of reionization. We use a series of inhomogeneous reionization simulations to derive the distribution of the Ly$\alpha$ EW after traveling through the neutral intergalactic medium with varying average neutral gas fraction, $x_{HI}$. We use these distribution to place an upper limit of $x_{HI} < $ 0.88 at z=10.6 at 95% confidence level. We compare our upper limit to different reionization history models, which include the recently identified enhancement at the bright end of the luminosity function at z>8. We find that models in which faint galaxies have higher escape fraction compared to bright galaxies are favored by the new data.
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures
Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acd5d0
Cite as: arXiv:2303.03419 [astro-ph.GA]
  (or arXiv:2303.03419v2 [astro-ph.GA] for this version)

Submission history

From: Sean Bruton [view email]
[v1] Mon, 6 Mar 2023 19:00:05 GMT (1341kb,D)
[v2] Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:50:20 GMT (1118kb,D)

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