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With current and upcoming experiments on the horizon, the global 21-cm signal can open up new avenues for probing dark matter (DM) physics at redshifts that are otherwise inaccessible to other observables. This work investigates the effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Aryan Rahimieh , Priyank Parashari , Rui An , Trey Driskell , Jordan Mirocha , Vera Gluscevic

Details of various unknown physical processes during the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization can be extracted from observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal. These observations, however, will be affected by the evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 Raghunath Ghara , Kanan K. Datta , T. Roy Choudhury

Beyond reionization epoch cosmic hydrogen is neutral and can be directly observed through its 21 cm line signal. If dark matter (DM) decays or annihilates the corresponding energy input affects the hydrogen kinetic temperature and ionized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Valdes , A. Ferrara , M. Mapelli , E. Ripamonti

21cm tomography promises to be a powerful tool for estimating cosmological parameters, constraining the epoch of reionization, and probing the so-called dark ages. However, realizing this promise will require the extraction of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Adrian Liu , Max Tegmark

21 cm cosmology, the statistical observation of the high redshift universe using the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of cosmology and the astrophysical processes that underlie…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Joshua S. Dillon

Aiming to fill a crucial gap in our observational knowledge of the early Universe, experiments around the world continue to attempt to verify the claimed detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn by the EDGES experiment.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 B. McKinley , C. M. Trott , M. Sokolowski , R. B. Wayth , A. Sutinjo , N. Patra , J. Nambissan T. , D. C. X. Ung

The 21cm line refers to a forbidden transition in neutral hydrogen associated with alignment of spins of the proton and electron. It is a very low energy transition that is emitted whenever there is neutral hydrogen in the Universe. Since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 Adrian Liu , Laura Newburgh , Benjamin Saliwanchik , Anže Slosar

Observations of the redshifted 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen will open a new window on the early Universe. By influencing the thermal and ionization history of the intergalactic medium (IGM), annihilating dark matter (DM) can leave a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Carmelo Evoli , Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara

The hydrogen 21-cm signal is predicted to be the richest probe of the young Universe including eras known as the cosmic Dark Ages, the Cosmic Dawn when the first star and black hole formed, and the Epoch of Reionization. This signal holds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Anastasia Fialkov , Thomas Gessey-Jones , Jiten Dhandha

A redshifted 21 cm line absorption signature is commonly expected from the cosmic dawn era, when the first stars and galaxies formed. The detailed traits of this signal can provide important insight on the cosmic history. However, high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yuan Shi , Furen Deng , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Qisen Yan , Xuelei Chen

The radiation background produced by the 21 cm spin-flip transition of neutral hydrogen at high redshifts can be a pristine probe of fundamental physics and cosmology. At z~30-300, the intergalactic medium (IGM) is visible in 21 cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh , Elena Pierpaoli

The future of precision cosmology could benefit from cross-correlations between intensity maps of unresolved neutral hydrogen (HI) and more conventional optical galaxy surveys. A major challenge that needs to be overcome is removing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz , Alkistis Pourtsidou , David Bacon

Spatial dependence in the statistics of redshifted 21cm fluctuations promises to provide the most powerful probe of the reionisation epoch. In this paper we consider the second and third moments of the redshifted 21cm intensity distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stuart Wyithe , Miguel Morales

Accurate simulations of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization require the generation of maps at specific frequencies given the values of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. The peculiar velocities of the hydrogen atoms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Emma Chapman , Mario G. Santos

The observation of the global 21 cm signal produced by neutral hydrogen gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization requires measurements with extremely well-calibrated wideband…

We discuss the prospects for ``tomography'' of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at high redshifts using the 21 cm transition of neutral hydrogen. Existing observational constraints on the epoch of reionization imply a complex ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven Furlanetto , Frank Briggs

We extend 21CMMC, a Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampler of 3D reionisation simulations, to perform parameter estimation directly on 3D light-cones of the cosmic 21cm signal. This brings theoretical analysis closer to the tomographic 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

We present a method for extracting the expected cosmological 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization, taking into account contaminating radiations and random instrumental noise. The method is based on the maximum a-posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-21 Liron Gleser , Adi Nusser , Andrew J. Benson

We study the constraints on primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) in light of the global 21-cm signal observed during the dark ages. Primordial magnetic fields can heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) via magnetohydrodynamic effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Vivekanand Mohapatra , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Alekha C. Nayak

The cosmological 21cm signal offers a potential probe of the early Universe and the first ionizing sources. Current experiments probe the spatially-dependent variance (Gaussianity) of the signal through the power spectrum (PS). The signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 J. H. Cook , S. Balu , B. Greig , C. M. Trott , J. L. B. Line , Y. Qin , J. S. B. Wyithe