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We apply the Correlated Component Analysis (CCA) method on simulated data of the Square Kilometre Array, with the aim of accurately cleaning the 21 cm reionization signal from diffuse foreground contamination. The CCA has been developed for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anna Bonaldi , Michael L. Brown

Twenty-one centimeter tomography is emerging as a powerful tool to explore the end of the cosmic dark ages and the reionization epoch, but it will only be as good as our ability to accurately model and remove astrophysical foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaomin Wang , Max Tegmark , Mario Santos , Lloyd Knox

The Cosmic Dawn was marked by the formation of the first stars, and preceded the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the Universe underwent a fundamental transformation caused by the radiation from these first stars and galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Oscar Sage David O'Hara , Fred Dulwich , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Jiten Dhandha , Thomas Gessey-Jones , Dominic Anstey , Anastasia Fialkov

Line intensity mapping opens up a new and exciting window for probing cosmology and fundamental physics during the Epoch of Reionisation, extending to redshifts previously untested by galaxy surveys. The power spectra of these line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-21 C. Heneka , L. Amendola

It is shown that 21 cm intensity mapping could be used in the near term to make cosmologically useful measurements. Large scale structure could be detected using existing radio telescopes, or using prototypes for dedicated redshift survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Patrick McDonald , Ue-Li Pen

We quantitatively investigate the possibility of detecting baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) using single-dish 21cm intensity mapping observations in the post-reionization era. We show that the telescope beam smears out the isotropic BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , David Alonso , Matteo Viel

21 cm intensity mapping has emerged as a promising technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, the presence of foregrounds with amplitudes orders of magnitude larger than the cosmological signal constitutes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Isabella P. Carucci , Melis O. Irfan , Jérôme Bobin

The redshifted 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen ($\textrm{H}\textsc{i}$) enables volumetric intensity mapping of large-scale structure in the post-reionization Universe. In anticipation of \texttt{SKA-MID}'s wide redshift coverage and high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Sourav Pal , Debanjan Sarkar

We conduct the first case study towards developing optimal foreground mitigation strategies for neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping using radio interferometers at low redshifts. A pipeline for simulation, foreground mitigation and power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz , Richard Battye

The 21 cm intensity mapping (IM) technique provides us with an efficient way to observe the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS). From the LSS data, one can use the baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion to trace the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Peng-Ju Wu , Yichao Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Intensity mapping of the 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen will yield exciting insights into the Epoch of Reionisation and the nature of the first galaxies. However, the large amount of data that will be generated by the next generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Adélie Gorce , Anne Hutter , Jonathan R. Pritchard

The 21cm forest -- HI absorption features in the spectra of high-redshift radio sources -- can potentially provide a unique probe of the largely neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) during the epoch of reionization. We present simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Katherine J. Mack , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) provides an excellent opportunity for low cost searches for fast radio transients. The increased sensitivity and field of view of the SKA compared with other radio telescopes will make it an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Colegate , N. Clarke

21 cm intensity mapping has arisen as a powerful probe of the high-redshift universe, but its potential is limited by extremely bright foregrounds and high source confusion. In this Letter, we propose a new analysis which can help solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Patrick C. Breysse , Christopher J. Anderson , Philippe Berger

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

Interferometry of the cosmic 21-cm signal is set to revolutionise our understanding of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) and the Cosmic Dawn (CD). The culmination of ongoing efforts will be the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger , Léon V. E. Koopmans

The ability to subtract foreground contamination from low-frequency observations is crucial to reveal the underlying 21 cm signal. The traditional line-of-sight methods can deal with the removal of diffuse emission and unresolved point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-Chun Mao

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the first low-frequency instrument with the capability to directly image the structures of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Indeed, deep imaging of the EoR over 5 targeted fields of 20 square degrees…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Qian Zheng , Xiang-Ping Wu , Quan Guo , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Huanyuan Shan , Stefan W. Duchesne , Weitian Li

In this paper we use radiative transfer + N-body simulations to explore the feasibility of measurements of cross-correlations between the 21cm field observed by the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and high-z Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Dijana Vrbanec , Benedetta Ciardi , Vibor Jelic , Hannes Jensen , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Saleem Zaroubi

We investigate the potential of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) for measuring the magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies via Faraday rotation of background polarised sources. [...] We find that about 10 per cent of the sky is covered by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Krause , Paul Alexander , Rosie Bolton , Joern Geisbuesch , David A. Green , Julia Riley