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We present predictions for the 21 cm brightness temperature power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We discuss the implications of the "light cone" effect, which incorporates evolution of the neutral hydrogen fraction and 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-04 Paul La Plante , Nicholas Battaglia , Aravind Natarajan , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

The redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen (HI) in the intergalactic medium (IGM) is a powerful probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Owing to the complex growth and morphology of ionized regions, the 21-cm brightness-temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vishrut Pandya , Leon Noble , Suman Majumdar , Debanjan Sarkar , Mohd Kamran , Abhirup Datta

Using a suite of detailed numerical simulations we estimate the level of anisotropy generated by the time evolution along the light cone of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. Our simulations include the physics necessary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Karolina Zawada , Benoit Semelin , Patrick Vonlanthen , Sunghye Baek , Yves Revaz

The light-cone (LC) anisotropy arises due to cosmic evolution of the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal along the line-of-sight (LoS) axis of the observation volume. The LC effect makes the signal statistically non-ergodic along the LoS axis. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Raghunath Ghara , Saleem Zaroubi , Rajesh Mondal , Garrelt Mellema , Florent Mertens , Léon V. E. Koopmans , Benoît Semelin

The highly redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen has become recognized as a unique probe of cosmology from relatively low redshifts (z ~ 1) up through the Epoch of Reionization (z ~ 8) and even beyond. To date, most work has focused on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jonathan C. Pober

Detection of the global redshifted 21-cm signal is an excellent means of deciphering the physical processes during the Dark Ages and subsequent Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, detection of this faint monopole is challenging due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , A. Raghunathan

The 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn (CD) is likely to contain large fluctuations, with the most extreme astrophysical models on the verge of being ruled out by observations from radio interferometers. It is therefore vital that we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Hannah E. Ross , Sambit K. Giri , Keri L. Dixon , Raghunath Ghara , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema

The epoch of reionization (EoR), marking the Universe's transition from a neutral to ionized state, represents a pivotal phase for understanding the formation of the first stars and galaxies. Intensity mapping of atomic and molecular lines,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Roy , Anthony Pullen , Patrick C. Breysse , Rachel S. Somerville

Low-frequency observatories are currently being constructed with the goal of detecting redshifted 21cm emission from the epoch of reionization. These observatories will also be able to detect intensity fluctuations in the cumulative 21cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb , Paul Geil

The redshifted $21$\,cm signal of neutral hydrogen can be used as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium during Cosmic Dawn\,(CD) and Epoch of Reionization\,(EoR). However, detecting this inherently weak signal has numerous challenges.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Samit Kumar Pal , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

The first generation of redshifted 21 cm detection experiments, carried out with arrays like LOFAR, MWA and GMRT, will have a very low signal-to-noise ratio per resolution element (\sim 0.2). In addition, whereas the variance of the…

Experiments designed to measure the redshifted 21~cm line from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are challenged by strong astrophysical foreground contamination, ionospheric distortions, complex instrumental response and other different types…

A near-future detection of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization will provide unique opportunities to probe the underlying cosmology, provided that such cosmological information can be extracted with precision. To this end, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Wenzer Qin , Katelin Schutz , Aaron Smith , Enrico Garaldi , Rahul Kannan , Tracy R. Slatyer , Mark Vogelsberger

We present a study of the impact of a bright quasar on the redshifted 21cm signal during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Using three different cosmological radiative transfer simulations, we investigate if quasars are capable of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kanan K. Datta , Martina M. Friedrich , Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro

The large-scale structure of the Universe should soon be measured at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through line-intensity mapping. A number of ongoing and planned surveys are using the 21 cm line to trace neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Angus Beane , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Adam Lidz

We present the first limits on the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm HI power spectra, in the redshift range $z=7.9-10.6$, using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) High-Band Antenna (HBA). In total 13\,h of data were used from observations…

Observations of the EoR with the 21-cm hyperfine emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) promise to open an entirely new window onto the formation of the first stars, galaxies and accreting black holes. In order to characterize the weak 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Abhik Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans , Emma Chapman , Vibor Jelic

A number of experiments are set to measure the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The common denominator of these experiments are the large data sets produced, contaminated by various instrumental…

Redshifted 21cm signal is a promising tool to investigate the state of intergalactic medium (IGM) in the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization(EoR). In our previous work (Shimabukuro et al 2015), we studied the variance and skewness to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

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