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The redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral Hydrogen is a promising probe into the period of evolution of our Universe when the first stars were formed (Cosmic Dawn), to the period where the entire Universe changed its state from being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Madhurima Choudhury , Atrideb Chatterjee , Abhirup Datta , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We quantify and discuss the footprints of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) on the spectra of high-redshift (z ~ 6) sources, using mock spectra generated from hydrodynamical simulations of the IGM. We show that it should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrei Mesinger , Zoltan Haiman , Renyue Cen

At redshifts z >~ 30 neutral hydrogen gas absorbs CMB radiation at the 21cm spin-flip frequency. In principle this is observable and a high-precision probe of cosmology. We calculate the linear-theory angular power spectrum of this signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antony Lewis , Anthony Challinor

The X-ray background during the epoch of reionization is currently poorly constrained. We demonstrate that it is possible to use first generation 21 cm experiments to calibrate it. Using the semi-numerical simulation, 21cmFAST, we calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

Observation of multifrequency angular power spectrum of the redshifted 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuation from the neutral hydrogen holds the key to understand the structure formation and its evolution during the reionization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Saikat Gayen , Jais Kumar , Prasun Dutta , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

We use a large N-body simulation to examine the detectability of HI in emission at redshift z ~ 1, and the constraints imposed by current observations on the neutral hydrogen mass function of galaxies at this epoch. We consider three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nishikanta Khandai , Shiv K. Sethi , Tiziana Di Matteo , Rupert A. C. Croft , Volker Springel , Anirban Jana , Jeffrey P. Gardner

A number of experiments are currently working towards a measurement of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization. Whether or not these experiments deliver a detection of cosmological emission, their limited sensitivity will prevent…

Intensity mapping of the 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen will yield exciting insights into the Epoch of Reionisation and the nature of the first galaxies. However, the large amount of data that will be generated by the next generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Adélie Gorce , Anne Hutter , Jonathan R. Pritchard

While limited to low spatial resolution, the next generation low-frequency radio interferometers that target 21 cm observations during the era of reionization and prior will have instantaneous fields-of-view that are many tens of square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. G. Santos , L. Ferramacho , M. B. Silva , A. Amblard , A. Cooray

Measurements of the post-reionization 21-cm bispectrum $B_{{\rm HI}}(\mathbf{k_1},\mathbf{k_2},\mathbf{k_3})$ using various upcoming intensity mapping experiments hold the potential for determining the cosmological parameters at a high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Debanjan Sarkar , Suman Majumdar , Somnath Bharadwaj

We present the first simulations of the high-redshift Ly$\alpha$ intensity field that account for scattering in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Using a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, we find that Ly$\alpha$ scattering smooths…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Eli Visbal , Matthew McQuinn

The Ly-alpha absorption spectrum of the highest redshift quasars indicates that they are surrounded by giant HII regions, a few Mpc in size. The neutral gas around these HII regions should emit 21cm radiation in excess of the Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

We explore the mean and fluctuating redshifted 21 cm signal in numerical simulations of cosmic reionization from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. We find that the mean signal varies between about $\pm20\rm{mK}$. Most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Alexander A. Kaurov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We assess the impact of inhomogeneous reionization on detection of HII regions surrounding luminous high redshift quasars using planned low frequency radio telescopes. Our approach is to implement a semi-numerical scheme to calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul M. Geil , Stuart Wyithe

The scattering of Ly$\alpha$ photons from the first radiating sources in the Universe plays a pivotal role in 21-cm radio detections of Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization through the Wouthuysen-Field effect. New data from JWST show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Avery Meiksin

The 21cm background from the epoch of reionization is a promising cosmological probe: line-of-sight velocity fluctuations distort redshift, so brightness fluctuations in Fourier space depend upon angle, which linear theory shows can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Paul R. Shapiro , Yi Mao , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Kanan K. Datta , Kyungjin Ahn , Jun Koda

The process of heating and reionization of the Universe at high redshift links small scale structures/galaxy formation and large scale inter-galactic medium properties. Even if the first one is difficult to observe, an observation window is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-05 Nicolas J. F. Gillet , Dominique Aubert , Florent G. Mertens , Pierre Ocvirk

Separating the cosmological redshifted 21-cm signal from foregrounds is a major challenge. We present the cross-correlation of the redshifted 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era with the Ly-alpha forest as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Kanan Datta

We investigate the impact of sinks of ionizing radiation on the reionization-era 21-cm signal, focusing on 1-point statistics. We consider sinks in both the intergalactic medium and inside galaxies. At a fixed filling factor of HII regions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. A. Watkinson , A. Mesinger , J. R. Pritchard , E. Sobacchi

The discovery of Lyman-alpha emission from galaxies at redshifts beyond z~6.5 should not be naively interpreted as implying that the intergalactic medium (IGM) had been reionized at higher redsifts. We show that a cluster of faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb