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Caption: Figure 7.
The photoionization rate of the IGM measured by Lyman forest fitting (Bolton & Haehnelt 2007; Wyithe & Bolton 2011; Becker & Bolton 2013; Davies et al. 2018; Faucher-Giguère 2020; Gallego et al. 2021; Gaikwad et al. 2023) and with the proximity effect (Calverley et al. 2011). The ionizing background produced by bright QSOs and faint AGN at z ∼ 5 is shown by the blue square, assuming a LyC escape fraction of 70%.
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