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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 redshifted 21-cm emission by neutral hydrogen offers a unique tool for mapping structure formation in the early universe in three dimensions. Here we provide the first detailed calculation of the 21-cm emission signal during and after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb

A new generation of interferometric instruments is emerging which aim to use intensity mapping of redshifted $21\,$cm radiation to measure the large-scale structure of the Universe at $z\simeq 1-2$ over wide areas of sky. While these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Martin White , Nikhil Padmanabhan

The sky-averaged brightness temperature of the 21cm line from neutral hydrogen provides a sensitive probe of the thermal state of the intergalactic medium, particularly before and during Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation. This…

The homogeneity scale, $R_{\rm H}$, offers a fundamental test of the Cosmological Principle, yet it has not yet been measured with 21cm intensity mapping surveys. A key limitation for such a measurement is the telescope beam, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Bruno B. Bizarria , Camila P. Novaes , Felipe Avila , Rahima Mokeddem , Helissa H. da Costa , Carlos A. Wuensche , Gabriel A. S. Silva

This chapter aims to provide a review of the basics of 21 cm interferometric observations and its methodologies. A summary of the main concepts of radio interferometry and their connection with the 21 cm observables - power spectra and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-27 G. Bernardi

Detecting the redshifted global 21-cm signal from the cosmic dawn (CD) remains a major challenge due to strong terrestrial Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), particularly dominated by Frequency Modulation (FM) transmissions in the 88-110…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yogen Pranesh , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Saurabh Singh

The 21cm line probes the evolution of matter perturbations over a wide range of redshifts, from the dark ages down to the completion of reionization. Observing the 21cm cosmological signal will extend our understanding of the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Xue-Wen Liu , Caroline Heneka , Luca Amendola

The 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen atom is almost the only way to directly probe the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages 21 cm signal, observed at frequencies below 50 MHz, can serve as a powerful probe of cosmology, as the standard cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shintaro Yoshiura , Fumiya Okamatsu , Tomo Takahashi

We study the behavior of internal signal chain reflections and antenna cross coupling as systematics for 21 cm cosmological surveys. We outline the mathematics for how these systematics appear in interferometric visibilities and describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Nicholas S. Kern , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon , Adam E. Lanman , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo

Global 21cm experiments aim to measure the sky averaged HI absorption signal from cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionisation. However, antenna chromaticity coupling to bright foregrounds can introduce distortions into the observational data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Dominic Anstey , John Cumner , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

A number of large current experiments aim to detect the signatures of the Cosmic Reionization at redshifts z>6. Their success depends crucially on understanding the character of the reionization process and its observable consequences and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Ue-Li Pen , J. Richard Bond , Paul R. Shapiro

We show that distances of objects at cosmological distances can be measured directly using interferometry. Our approach to interferometric parallax comes from analysis of 4-point amplitude and intensity correlations that can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

The redshifted 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization (EoR) directly probes the ionization and thermal states of the intergalactic medium during that period. In particular, the distribution of the ionized regions around the radiating…

We explore the 21-cm signal in our Universe containing inhomogeneous matter distribution at considerably large scales. Employing Buchert's averaging procedure in the context of a model of spacetime with multiple inhomogeneous domains, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Shashank Shekhar Pandey , Ashadul Halder , A. S. Majumdar

Efforts are being made to observe the 21-cm signal from the 'cosmic dawn' using sky-averaged observations with individual radio dipoles. In this paper, we develop a model of the observations accounting for the 21-cm signal, foregrounds, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-26 Geraint J. A. Harker , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Jack O. Burns , Judd D. Bowman

The global 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), at redshifts $z \sim 6-30$, probes the nature of first sources of radiation as well as physics of the Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). Given that the signal is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , B. S. Girish , A. Raghunathan , R. Somashekar , K. S. Srivani

(Abridged) Noise considerations for experiments that aim to statistically estimate the 21 cm signal from high redshift neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) using interferometric data are typically computed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Cathryn M. Trott

As a result of our limited data on reionization, the total optical depth for electron scattering, $\tau$, limits precision measurements of cosmological parameters from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). It was recently shown that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Anastasia Fialkov , Abraham Loeb