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Cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys provide a promising tomographic probe of the post-reionization era and of the standard model of cosmology. Simulations of this signal are crucial for maximizing the utility of these surveys. We…

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We propose the HI 21-cm power spectrum from the post-reionization epoch as a probe of a cosmological model with decaying dark matter particles. The unstable particles are assumed to undergo a 2-body decay into a massless and massive…

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The ionisation structure of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) during reionisation is sensitive to the unknown galaxy formation physics that prevailed at that time. This structure introduces non-Gaussian statistics into the redshifted 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-20 Stuart Wyithe , Paul M. Geil , Hansik Kim

We investigate the signatures left by massive neutrinos on the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era by running hydrodynamic simulations that include massive neutrinos as additional collisionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Philip Bull , Matteo Viel

The distribution of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen is a powerful cosmological and astrophysical probe, as it traces the underlying dark matter and cold gas distributions throughout cosmic times. However, the prediction of observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Satvik Mishra , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel

Detection of individual luminous sources during the reionization epoch and cosmic dawn through their signatures in the HI 21-cm signal is one of the direct approaches to probe the epoch. Here, we summarize our previous works on this and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Kanan K. Datta , Raghunath Ghara , Suman Majumdar , T. Roy Choudhury , Somnath Bharadwaj , Himadri Roy , Abhirup Datta

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 a comprehensive analysis of atomic hydrogen (HI) properties using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and N-body simulations covering a large cosmological volume at high resolution. We examine the HI mass function and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Marta Spinelli , Anna Zoldan , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Matteo Viel

We study the signatures of reionization and ionizing properties of the early galaxies in the cross-correlations between the 21cm emission from the spin-flip transition of neutral hydrogen (HI) and the underlying galaxy population, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Anne Hutter , Pratika Dayal , Volker Müller , Cathryn Trott

Strong gravitational lensing provides some of the deepest views of the Universe, enabling studies of high-redshift galaxies only possible with next-generation facilities without the lensing phenomenon. To date, 21 cm radio emission from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 R. P. Deane , D. Obreschkow , I. Heywood

The spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Universe contains a wealth of cosmological information. The 21 cm emission line can be used to map the HI up to very high redshift and therefore reveal us something about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Emanuele Castorina , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The 21 cm intensity mapping experiments promise to obtain the large-scale distribution of HI gas at the post-reionization epoch. In order to reveal the underlying matter density fluctuations from the HI mapping, it is important to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Zhenyuan Wang , Yangyao Chen , Yi Mao , Houjun Mo , Huiyuan Wang , Hong Guo , Cheng Li , Jian Fu , Yipeng Jing , Jing Wang , Xiaohu Yang , Zheng Zheng

Neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping traces the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe and therefore should correlate with the gamma-ray emission originated from particle dark matter annihilation or from active galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-03 Elena Pinetti , Stefano Camera , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

We present a new halo model of neutral hydrogen (HI) calibrated to galaxy formation simulations at redshifts $z\sim0.1$ and $z\sim1.0$ that we employ to investigate the constraining power of interferometric HI intensity mapping on HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Marta Spinelli , Steven G. Murray

Morphology of the complex HI gas distribution can be quantified by statistics like the Minkowski functionals, and can provide a way to statistically study the large scale structure in the HI maps both at low redshifts, and during the epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Yougang Wang , Yidong Xu , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen , Xin Wang , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Khee-Gan Lee , Renyue Cen

Mapping of the neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity fluctuations across redshifts promises a novel and powerful probe of cosmology. The neutral hydrogen gas mass density, $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ and bias parameter, $b_{\rm HI}$ are key…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hamsa Padmanabhan , T. Roy Choudhury , Alexandre Refregier

We derive the distribution of neutral and ionized gas in high redshift clouds which are optically thick to hydrogen ionizing radiation, using published data on Lyman-limit and Damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems in the redshift range 1.75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edvige Corbelli , Edwin E. Salpeter , Rino Bandiera

Neutral hydrogen (HI) will soon be the dark matter tracer observed over the largest volumes of Universe thanks to the 21 cm intensity mapping technique. To unveil cosmological information it is indispensable to understand the HI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Aurélie Pénin , Obinna Umeh , Mario Santos

We investigate the impact of neutral hydrogen (HI) in galaxies on the statistics of 21-cm fluctuations using analytic and semi-numerical modelling. Following the reionisation of hydrogen the HI content of the Universe is dominated by damped…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stuart Wyithe , Lila Warszawski , Paul M. Geil , S. Peng Oh

JWST spectra revealing Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) absorption in $z\sim 5-14$ galaxies offer a unique probe of reionization's earliest stages. However, disentangling absorption by the increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) from…