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Cosmic reionization holds the key to understand structure formation in the Universe, and can inform us about the properties of the first sources, as their star formation efficiency and escape fraction of ionizing photons. By combining the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Sourav Mitra , T. Roy Choudhury , Andrea Ferrara

I discuss the physics of polarization in models with early reionization. For sufficiently high optical depth to recombination the polarization is boosted on large scales while it is suppressed on smaller scales. New peaks appear in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matias Zaldarriaga

The 21 cm signal arising from fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen field, and its cross-correlation with other tracers of cosmic density, are promising probes of the high-redshift Universe. In this study, we assess the potential of the 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Barun Maity

The amplitude of redshifted 21 cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is expected to show a distinctive "rise and fall" behavior with decreasing redshift as reionization proceeds. On large scales (k <~ 0.1 Mpc^{-1}) this can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Angus Beane , Adam Lidz

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 introduce simulations aimed at assessing how well weak gravitational lensing of 21cm radiation from the Epoch of Reionization ($z \sim 8$) can be measured by an SKA-like radio telescope. A simulation pipeline has been implemented to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-21 Alessandro Romeo , R. Benton Metcalf , Alkistis Pourtsidou

Inhomogeneous reionization enhances the 1D Lyman-$\alpha$ forest power spectrum on large scales at redshifts $z\geq4$. This is due to coherent fluctuations in the ionized hydrogen fraction that arise from large-scale variations in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Margherita Molaro , Vid Iršič , James S. Bolton , Maggie Lieu , Laura C. Keating , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matteo Viel

The 21-cm power spectrum (PS) has been shown to be a powerful discriminant of reionization and cosmic dawn astrophysical parameters. However, the 21-cm tomographic signal is highly non-Gaussian. Therefore there is additional information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Nicolas Gillet , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Adrian Liu , Graziano Ucci

A detection of the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization is imminent, thanks to consistent advancements from telescopes such as LOFAR, MWA, and HERA, along with the development of SKA. In light of this progress, it is…

Conventional wisdom was that thermal relics from the epoch of reionization (EOR) would vanish swiftly. Recently, however, it was shown that these relics can survive to lower redshifts ($z \sim 2$) than previously thought, due to gas at mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yi Mao

The 21-cm PDF (i.e., distribution of pixel brightness temperatures) is expected to be highly non-Gaussian during reionization and to provide important information on the distribution of density and ionization. We measure the 21-cm PDF as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Rennan Barkana , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Paul Shapiro

We study the process of cosmic reionization and estimate the ionizing background in the IGM using the Lyman series absorption in the spectra of the four quasars at 5.7<z<6.3 discovered by the SDSS. We derive the evolution of the ionizing…

We analyse the evolution of the largest ionized region using the topological and morphological evolution of the redshifted 21-cm signal coming from the neutral hydrogen distribution during the different stages of reionization. For this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-12 Saswata Dasgupta , Samit Kumar Pal , Satadru Bag , Sohini Dutta , Suman Majumdar , Abhirup Datta , Aadarsh Pathak , Mohd Kamran , Rajesh Mondal , Prakash Sarkar

We discuss the prospects of using the redshifted 21~cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the post-reionization epoch to study our universe. The main aim of the article is to highlight the efforts of Indian scientists in this area with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

Detection of the \hi~ 21-cm power spectrum is one of the key science drivers of several ongoing and upcoming low-frequency radio interferometers. However, the major challenge in such observations come from bright foregrounds, whose accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar

21 cm Epoch of Reionization observations promise to transform our understanding of galaxy formation, but these observations are impossible without unprecedented levels of instrument calibration. We present end-to-end simulations of a full…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-09 N. Barry , B. Hazelton , I. Sullivan , M. F. Morales , J. C. Pober

In this paper, we propose an Alcock-Paczy\'nski (AP) test to constrain cosmology using HII bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization. Similarly to cosmic voids, a stack of HII bubbles is spherically symmetric because ionizing fronts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Emilie Thélie , Franco Del Balso , Julian B. Muñoz , Adrian Liu

We use the Sherwood-Relics suite of hybrid hydrodynamical and radiative transfer simulations to model the effect of inhomogeneous reionisation on the 1D power spectrum of the \Lya forest transmitted flux at redshifts $4.2\leq z \leq 5$.…

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) prior to recombination should be imprinted onto the 21cm emission background from the epoch of reionization through the underlying density perturbations. Using an analytical approach for both matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Chun Mao , Xiang-Ping Wu

The upcoming SKA1-Low radio interferometer will be sensitive enough to produce tomographic imaging data of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization. Due to the non-Gaussian distribution of the signal, a power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-10 Sambit K. Giri , Garrelt Mellema , Keri L. Dixon , Ilian T. Iliev