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The EDGES low-band experiment has measured an absorption feature in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), corresponding to the 21 cm hyperfine transition of hydrogen at redshift $z \simeq 17$, before the era of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 Axel Widmark

We use numerical hydrodynamical simulations of early structure formation in a LCDM universe to investigate the spin temperature and 21cm brightness of the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of cosmic reionization, at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Kuhlen , Piero Madau , Ryan Montgomery

The epoch of reionization (EoR) marks the end of the Cosmic Dawn and the beginning of large-scale structure formation in the universe. The impulsive ionization fronts (I-fronts) heat and ionize the gas within the reionization bubbles in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Chenxiao Zeng , Christopher M. Hirata

A possible explanation of the present discrepancy between the abundance of galactic subhaloes predicted by N-Body simulations with those observed in the Local Group is presented. We study the impact of an early reionization on the baryonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea V. Maccio' , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , Doug Potter

We present numerically exact inchworm quantum Monte Carlo results for the real-time dynamics of the spin polarization in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model at finite temperature. We focus in particular on the localization and coherence behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Olga Goulko , Hsing-Ta Chen , Moshe Goldstein , Guy Cohen

The measurements of the 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuations from the neutral hydrogen at the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) should inaugurate the next generation of cosmological observables. In this respect, many works have concentrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-10 Sebastien Clesse , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Christophe Ringeval , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Michel H. G. Tytgat

The free-electron population during the reionized epoch rescatters CMB temperature quadrupole and generates a now well-known polarization signal at large angular scales. While this contribution has been detected in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

Intergalactic medium temperature is a powerful probe of the epoch of reionisation, as information is retained long after reionisation itself. However, mean temperatures are highly degenerate with the timing of reionisation, with the amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 James E. Davies , Simon J. Mutch , Yuxiang Qin , Andrei Mesinger , Gregory B. Poole , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We predict the 21-cm global signal and power spectra during the Epoch of Reionisation using the MERAXES semi-analytic galaxy formation and reionisation model, updated to include X-ray heating and thermal evolution of the intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Sreedhar Balu , Bradley Greig , Yisheng Qiu , Chris Power , Yuxiang Qin , Simon Mutch , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We present a model independent and non-parametric reconstruction with a Machine Learning algorithm of the redshift evolution of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature from a wide redshift range $z\in \left[0,3\right]$ without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Rubén Arjona

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a crucial link to grasp the complete evolutionary history of the universe. Several attempts with a variety of observables have been utilized in the past to understand the thermal and ionization evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Barun Maity

In this work, we perform a statistical inference of the classical background law governing the evolution of the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), given by $T_{\rm CMB}(z) = T_0(1 + z)$. To this end, we employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Felipe Avila , Alexander Bonilla Rivera , Rafael C. Nunes , R. F. L. Holanda , Armando Bernui

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will measure temperature fluctuations on small angular scales with unprecedented precision. Small-scale CMB fluctuations are a mixture of late-time effects: gravitational lensing,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Kendrick M. Smith , Simone Ferraro

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 cosmic 21 cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, allowing us to probe the 3D temperature and ionisation structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM). It will open a window onto the unseen first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

We study spin-dependent heat transport in quantum gases, focusing on transport phenomena related to pure spin currents and spin-dependent temperatures. Using the Boltzmann equation, we compute the coupled spin and heat transport…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-08 Clement H. Wong , H. T. C. Stoof , R. A. Duine

The temperature-dependent electron spin relaxation of positively charged excitons in a single InAs quantum dot (QD) was measured by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy at zero applied magnetic fields. The experimental results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 X. M. Dou , B. Q. Sun , D. S. Jiang , H. Q. Ni , Z. C. Niu

The measurement of the brightness temperature fluctuations of neutral hydrogen 21 cm lines from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is expected to be a powerful tool for revealing the reionisation process. We study the 21 cm cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Marian Douspis , Saleem Zaroubi , Vibor Jelic

The power spectra of the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) contain information about the ionization and thermal states of the intergalactic medium (IGM), and depend on the properties of the EoR sources. Recently,…

Measurements of the CMB temperature anisotropy and the temperature-polarization cross correlation by WMAP suggest a reionization redshift of $z \sim 17 \pm 5$. On the other hand, observations of high redshift galaxies indicate a presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Levon Pogosian , Alexander Vilenkin