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Background intensity of LW radiation (JLW) produced by accreting high-z PBH sources. The format of panels, colours, and line styles is identical to Fig. 3: each column corresponds to a different PBH mass, colours represent fPBH values, and line styles denote the density profiles considered (simple isothermal, Makino+1998, and Liu+2022). The grey dashed line represents the critical value JLW ∼ 1, where the destruction rate of H2 equals the formation rate, while the orange dashed-dotted line shows the contribution from stellar sources for reference. The bottom row illustrates the relative contributions of halos ( J LW h $ J^{\mathrm{h}}_{\mathrm{LW}} $) and the IGM ( J LW IGM $ J^{\mathrm{IGM}}_{\mathrm{LW}} $) to the total LW background intensity ( J LW tot $ J^{\mathrm{tot}}_{\mathrm{LW}} $). These are represented as J LW h / J LW tot $ J^{\mathrm{h}}_{\mathrm{LW}}/J^{\mathrm{tot}}_{\mathrm{LW}} $ (dashed-dotted lines) and J LW IGM / J LW tot $ J^{\mathrm{IGM}}_{\mathrm{LW}}/J^{\mathrm{tot}}_{\mathrm{LW}} $ (solid lines), respectively. The relative contributions are computed using the same PBH masses and density profile configurations as in the top row. For fPBH > 0.0001, the halo contribution dominates at all redshifts, while for fPBH = 0.0001, the IGM contribution becomes significant at smaller redshifts, especially for larger PBH masses.

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