Was the Universe Reionized at Redshift 10?

Details Was the Universe Reionized at Redshift 10? Was the Universe Reionized at Redshift 10?

2004-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403193v1

Astrophys.J. 620 (2005) 553-558

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 1 figure, ApJ, submitted

Scientific paper

10.1086/427229

Recently, Pello et al. (2004) claimed to have discovered a galaxy at a redshift z=10, and identified a feature in its spectrum with a hydrogen Lyman-alpha emission line. If this identification is correct, we show that the intergalactic medium (IGM) around the galaxy must be significantly ionized; otherwise, the damping wing of Lyman-alpha absorption by the neutral IGM would have greatly suppressed the emission line. We find either that the large-scale region surrounding this galaxy must have been largely reionized by z=10 (with a neutral fraction <0.4) or that the stars within the galaxy must be massive (>100 solar masses), and hence capable of producing a sufficiently large HII region around it. We generalize these conclusions and derive the maximum Lyman-alpha line flux for a given UV continuum flux of galaxies prior to the epoch of reionization.

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