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Cosmic Dawn, the onset of star formation in the early universe, can in principle be studied via the 21cm transition of neutral hydrogen, for which a sky-averaged absorption signal, redshifted to MHz frequencies, is predicted to be {\it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 M. Spinelli , G. Kyriakou , G. Bernardi , P. Bolli , L. J. Greenhill , A. Fialkov , H. Garsden

BayesEoR is a GPU-accelerated, MPI-compatible Python package for estimating the power spectrum of redshifted 21-cm emission from interferometric observations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Utilizing a Bayesian framework, BayesEoR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Peter H. Sims , Jacob Burba , Jonathan C. Pober

A first statistical detection of the 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is on the horizon, as cosmological volumes of the Universe become accessible via the adoption of low-frequency interferometers. We explore the impact which non-identical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Chokshi , N. Barry , J. L. B. Line , C. H. Jordan , B. Pindor , R. L. Webster

Measurements of the one-point probability distribution function and higher-order moments (variance, skewness, and kurtosis) of the high-redshift 21 cm fluctuations are among the most direct statistical probes of the non-Gaussian nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Piyanat Kittiwisit , Judd D. Bowman , Steven G. Murray , Bharat K. Gehlot , Daniel C. Jacobs , Adam P. Beardsley

The redshifted 21-cm line of distant neutral H atoms provides a probe of the cosmic ``dark ages'' and the epoch of reionization (``EOR'') which ended them. The radio continuum produced by this redshifted line can be seen in absorption or…

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

We apply Bayesian statistics to perform model selection on different reionisation scenarios via the Multinest algorithm. Initially, we recover the results shown by 21CMMC for the parameter estimation of 21cmFAST models. We proceed to test…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 T. Binnie , J. R. Pritchard

The extraction of foreground and CMB maps from multi-frequency observations relies mostly on the different frequency behavior of the different components. Existing Bayesian methods additionally make use of a Gaussian prior for the CMB whose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-04 Niels Oppermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

A detection of the predicted anticorrelation between 21cm and either Ly-alpha or H-alpha from the Epoch of Reionization (EOR) would be a powerful probe of the first galaxies. While 3D intensity maps isolate foregrounds in low k_\parallel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Abraham R. Neben , Brian Stalder , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , John L. Tonry

Spatial variations in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest opacity at $z<6$ seem to require a late end to cosmic reionization. In this picture, the universe contains neutral hydrogen 'islands' of up to 100 cMpc$/h$ in extent down to redshifts as low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Janakee Raste , Girish Kulkarni , Catherine A. Watkinson , Laura C. Keating , Martin G. Haehnelt

Diffuse Galactic emission at low frequencies is a major contaminant for studies of redshifted $21$ cm line studies. Removal of these foregrounds is essential for exploiting the signal from neutral hydrogen at high redshifts. Analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Sandeep Rana , Tuhin Ghosh , J. S. Bagla , Pravabati Chingangbam

Detecting neutral Hydrogen (H\,{\sc i}) via the 21~cm line emission from the intergalactic medium at $z\gtrsim 6$ has been identified as one of the most promising probes of the epoch of cosmic reionization -- a major phase transition of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Chris Carilli , Bojan Nikolic

The 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) of neutral hydrogen (HI) is a promising tool to probe the large-scale structures. Sky maps of 21-cm intensities can be highly contaminated by different foregrounds, such as Galactic synchrotron radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Elimboto Yohana , Yin-Zhe Ma , Di Li , Xuelei Chen , Wei-Ming Dai

21 cm power spectrum observations have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization and Dark Energy, but require extraordinarily precise data analysis methods to separate the cosmological signal from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Miguel F. Morales , Adam Beardsley , Jonathan Pober , Nichole Barry , Bryna Hazelton , Daniel Jacobs , Ian Sullivan

21-cm intensity mapping (IM) is a powerful technique to probe the large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) and extract cosmological information such as the baryon acoustic oscillation feature. A key challenge lies in recovering the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zitong Wang , Feng Shi , Le Zhang , Yanming Liu , Xiaoping Li , Shulei Ni , Ming Jiang , Xiaofan Ma

Due to the large dynamic ranges involved with separating the cosmological 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn from galactic foregrounds, a well-calibrated instrument is essential to avoid biases from instrumental systematics. In this paper we…

The 21 cm brightness temperature during the Epoch of Reionisation is widely modelled using semi-numeric simulations, used for their computational speed and flexibility in testing astrophysical and cosmological parameters. However, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Jennifer Feron , Emma Chapman

Radio interferometric experiments aim to constrain the reionization model parameters by measuring the 21-cm signal statistics, primarily the power spectrum. However the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal is highly non-Gaussian, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Himanshu Tiwari , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Suman Majumdar , Mohd Kamran , Madhurima Choudhury

A possible way to disentangle the redshifted 21 cm signal of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) from the much larger astrophysical foregrounds is to restrict the analysis to a wedge-shaped region in the Fourier space.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-25 Dinesh Raut , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

In order to characterize and model the beam-weighted foreground for global 21-cm signal experiments, we present a methodology for generating basis eigenvectors that combines analytical and observational models of both the galactic spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Joshua J. Hibbard , Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and star-forming galaxies are leading candidates for being the luminous sources that reionized our Universe. Next-generation 21cm surveys are promising to break degeneracies between a broad range of reionization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-20 Sultan Hassan , Adrian Liu , Saul Kohn , Paul La Plante