.. _ionizing_photons_emission_rate:

Emission rate of ionizing photons per unit volume
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**Field names**: 
"ionizing_photons_emission_rate", "ionizing_photons_production_rate", "dotN", "dotNion", "Nion", "N_ion"

**Units**: 
s^-1 Mpc^-3

**Remarks**: 


**Required fields**: 
"redshift"


    
Data
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.. image:: ../plots/ionizing_photons_emission_rate.png
   :height: 200pt

**Data sources**

|Becker & Bolton 2013|

.. |Becker & Bolton 2013| raw:: html

   <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/436/2/1023/1118137" target="_blank">Becker & Bolton 2013</a>

|Becker et al. 2021|

.. |Becker et al. 2021| raw:: html

   <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.508.1853B/abstract" target="_blank">Becker et al. 2021</a>

|Bouwens et al. 2015|

.. |Bouwens et al. 2015| raw:: html

   <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...811..140B/abstract" target="_blank">Bouwens et al. 2015</a>

|Gaikwad et al. 2023|

.. |Gaikwad et al. 2023| raw:: html

   <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230402038G/abstract" target="_blank">Gaikwad et al. 2023</a>