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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 sky-averaged, or global, background of redshifted $21$ cm radiation is expected to be a rich source of information on cosmological reheating and reionizaton. However, measuring the signal is technically challenging: one must extract a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Tejaswi Venumadhav , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Christopher M. Hirata

A number of radio interferometers are currently being planned or constructed to observe 21 cm emission from reionization. Not only will such measurements provide a detailed view of that epoch, but, since the 21 cm emission also traces the…

[Abridged] The spatially averaged global spectrum of the redshifted 21cm line has generated much experimental interest, for it is potentially a direct probe of the Epoch of Reionization and the Dark Ages. Since the cosmological signal here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-07 Adrian Liu , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Max Tegmark , Abraham Loeb

A measurement of the 21-cm global signal would be a revealing probe of the Dark Ages, the era of first star formation, and the Epoch of Reionization. It has remained elusive owing to bright galactic and extra-galactic foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Yordan D. Ignatov , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Yuqing Wu

Interferometric experiments of the reionization era offer the advantages of measuring power in spatial modes with increased sensitivity afforded by multiple independent sky measurements. Here we review early work to measure this signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Cathryn M. Trott , Jonathan C. Pober

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

The sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal is a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the completion of reionization. However, it has so far been unclear that even in the best case scenario, in which the signal is accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

We theoretically investigate the recovery of global spectrum (monopole) from visibilities (cross-correlation only) measured by the interferometer array and the feasibility of extracting 21 cm signal of cosmic dawn. In our approach, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Xin Zhang , Bin Yue , Yuan Shi , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen

The redshifted 21-cm monopole is expected to be a powerful probe of the epoch of the first stars and galaxies ($10<z<35$). The global 21-cm signal is sensitive to the thermal and ionization state of hydrogen gas and thus provides a tracer…

The 21-cm background is a promising probe of early star formation and black hole activity. While a slew of experiments on the ground seek to detect the 21-cm monopole and spatial fluctuations on large $\sim 10$ arcminute scales, little work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Jordan Mirocha , Chris Anderson , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Adam Lidz

The redshifted 21 cm line, arising from neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe into the intergalactic medium and the first stars and galaxies formed in the early universe. However, detecting this signal is a challenging task because of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shijie Sun , Jiaqin Xu , Minquan Zhou , Shenzhe Xu , Fengquan Wu , Haoran Zhang , Juyong Zhang , Bin Ma , Zhaohui Shang , Xuelei Chen

The motion of the solar system with respect to the cosmic rest frame modulates the monopole of the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal into a dipole. This dipole has a characteristic frequency dependence that is dominated by the frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Anže Slosar

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 formation of the first stars and galaxies during 'Cosmic Dawn' is thought to have imparted a faint signal onto the 21-cm spin temperature from atomic Hydrogen gas in the early Universe. Observationally, an absorption feature should be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Danny C. Price

The cosmological reionization can be studied in the radio through the tomographic view offered by the redshifted 21-cm line and the integrated information carried out by the diffuse free-free emission, coupled to the Comptonization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 T. Trombetti , C. Burigana

We investigate the 21-cm signature that may arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of full reionization (z>5). In scenarios in which the IGM is reionized by discrete sources of photoionizing radiation, the neutral gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , Avery Meiksin , Martin J. Rees

The early star-forming Universe is still poorly constrained, with the properties of high-redshift stars, the first heating sources, and reionization highly uncertain. This leaves observers planning 21-cm experiments with little theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Matan Lotem

Improvements in current instruments and the advent of next-generation instruments will soon push observational 21 cm cosmology into a new era, with high significance measurements of both the power spectrum and the mean ("global") signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-08 Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons

Numerous experiments have been designed to investigate the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) by examining redshifted 21-cm emissions from neutral hydrogen. Detecting the global spectrum of redshifted 21-cm signals is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Feiyu Zhao , Quan Guo , Qian Zheng , Ruxi Liang , Pengfei Zhang , Yajun Wu , Junhua Gu , Zhao Yang , Yun Yu , Yan Huang , Tianyang Liu
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