CoReCon: an open, community-powered collection of Reionization constraints

TL;DR

CoReCon is an open-source Python package that consolidates and standardizes observational constraints on cosmic reionization, facilitating community collaboration and data sharing for high-redshift research.

Contribution

It introduces a community-powered platform and Python package to collect, store, and standardize reionization constraints from diverse sources.

Findings

Provides a centralized repository for reionization data

Enables easier comparison of observational constraints

Supports ongoing and future high-redshift studies

Abstract

The number of available constraints on the Universe during and before cosmic reionization is rapidly growing. These are often scattered across inhomogeneous formats, unit systems and sampling strategies. In this paper, I introduce CoReCon, a Python package designed to provide a growing set of constraints on key physical quantities related to the Epoch of Reionization and a platform for the high-redshift research community to collect and store, in an open way, current and forthcoming observational constraints.