Foregrounds and their mitigation
Abstract
The low-frequency radio sky is dominated by the diffuse synchrotron emission of our Galaxy and extragalactic radio sources related to Active Galactic Nuclei and star-forming galaxies. This foreground emission is much brighter than the cosmological 21 cm emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. Studying the physical properties of the foregrounds is therefore of fundamental importance for their mitigation in the cosmological 21 cm experiments. This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the foregrounds and our current state-of-the-art knowledge about their mitigation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1909.12369,
title = {Foregrounds and their mitigation},
author = {Emma Chapman and Vibor Jelić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12369},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
55 pages, 15 figures, to appear as a book chapter in "The Cosmic 21-cm Revolution: Charting the first billion years of our Universe", Ed. Andrei Mesinger (Bristol: IOP Publishing Ltd.) AAS-IOP ebooks (http://www.iopscience.org/books/aas)