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The prescribed photon budget requires a collapsed mass fraction $f_{\mathrm{coll}}=3/3000=10^{-3}$, assuming baryons trace the collapsed mass fraction and using the supplied effective photon yield. No extra photon-escape or recombination correction should be counted on top of this stipulated budget.

For spectral slope $n=-2$, $q=1/6$. The mass-scale measurement givesBoth relevant epochs are matter-dominated, so the linear growth factor ratio is $D(z)/D(3)=4/(1+z)$, independent of any present-day normalization convention. Thus $\sigma (M_{\min },z)=4/(1+z)$. The Press-Schechter formalism givesUsing the supplied inverse value,This is the photon-budget reionization threshold in the specified toy model, not a measurement of the full astrophysical reionization history.

To estimate the characteristic mass, use the non-dissipative spherical-collapse model result ${\Delta }_{\mathrm{vir}}=18{\pi }^2$. At this high redshift the background matter density is practically the critical density. Circular virial velocity then obeysConsequentlyFor $v_{\mathrm{vir}}=9\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, this gives $H\simeq 7.87\times 10^2\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}\mathrm{Mp}{\mathrm{c}}^{-1}$ and $M_{\min }\simeq 2.3\times 10^7{M}_{\odot }$, with physical virial radius about $1.21\mathrm{kpc}$.

At the threshold mass the halo peak height is $\nu =\sqrt{2}(2.33)\simeq 3.30$, soThe present mean matter density is ${\bar{\rho }}_{m,0}=2.775\times 10^{11}{\Omega }_{\mathrm{mat}}{h}^2{M}_{\odot }{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-3}\simeq 3.60\times 10^{10}{M}_{\odot }{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-3}$. Hence the differential abundance per logarithmic mass interval is about $3.0{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-3}$ andRounded inputs and the supplied approximate factor justify quoting about $0.7\mathrm{Mpc}$. The corresponding physical separation is about $0.088\mathrm{Mpc}$ at this epoch. The requested halo spacing from a differential mass function uses a logarithmic mass bin of order unity; it is not obtained by identifying $f_{\mathrm{coll}}\bar{\rho }/M$ with that differential abundance. A cumulative number density above the threshold requires a separate mass integral.