Energy feedback from XRB from z=0 to z=19.92

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X-ray photons, because of their long mean-free paths, can easily escape the galactic environments where they are produced, and interact at long distances with the intergalactic medium, potentially having a significant contribution to the heating and reionization of the early universe. The two most important sources of X-ray photons in the universe are active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and X-ray binaries (XRBs). In this Letter we use results from detailed, large scale population synthesis simulations to study the energy feedback of XRBs, from the first galaxies (z~20) until today. We estimate that X-ray emission from XRBs dominates over AGN at z>~6-8. The shape of the spectral energy distribution of the emission from XRBs shows little change with redshift, in contrast to its normalization which evolves by ~4 orders of magnitude, primarily due to the evolution of the cosmic star-formation rate. However, the metallicity and the mean stellar age of a given XRB population affect significantly its X-ray output. Specifically, the X-ray luminosity from high-mass XRBs per unit of star-formation rate varies an order of magnitude going from solar metallicity to less than 10% solar, and the X-ray luminosity from low-mass XRBs per unit of stellar mass peaks at an age of ~300Myr and then decreases gradually at later times, showing little variation for mean stellar ages >~3Gyr. Finally, we provide analytical and tabulated prescriptions for the energy output of XRBs, that can be directly incorporated in cosmological simulations.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17769031
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/776/L31
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/776/L31
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/776/L31
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Provenance
Creator Fragos T.; Lehmer B.D.; Naoz S.; Zezas A.; Basu-Zych A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2015
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy