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Fellow of the European Community Research and Training Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium.

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...contribution.

As pointed out by the referee, the background is, in principle, independent on the adopted cosmology. The slight difference between the two QSO backgrounds arises because of the cosmology-dependent correction for incompleteness in the luminosity function.

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