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Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal emitted by neutral hydrogen represent a promising probe of large-scale structure in the universe. However, cosmological 21-cm signal is challenging to observe due to astrophysical foregrounds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Haochen Wang , Juan Mena-Parra , Tianyue Chen , Kiyoshi Masui

In the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping (IM) survey, the foreground contamination on the cosmological signals is extremely severe, and the systematic effects caused by radio telescopes themselves further aggravate the difficulties in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Shulei Ni , Yichao Li , Li-Yang Gao , Xin Zhang

The cosmological global (sky-averaged) 21-cm signal is a powerful tool to probe the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in high-redshift Universe ($z \leq 6$). One of the biggest observational challenges is to remove the foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Bang D. Nhan , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns

Global 21cm cosmology aims to investigate the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionisation by measuring the sky averaged HI absorption signal, which requires, accurate modelling of, or correction for, the bright radio foregrounds and distortions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

Measurements of the cosmic 21 cm signal need to achieve a high dynamic range to isolate it from bright foreground emissions. Calibration inaccuracies can compromise the spectral fidelity of the smooth foreground continuum, thereby limiting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Pascal M. Keller , Bojan Nikolic , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

Intensity Mapping (IM) of the 21-cm line of the neutral hydrogen (\textsc{Hi}) has become a compelling new technique to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. One of the main challenges is the presence of strong foreground emissions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Bianca De Caro , Isabella P. Carucci , Stefano Camera , Mathieu Remazeilles , Carmelita Carbone

One key challenge in detecting 21 cm cosmological signal at z > 6 is to separate the cosmological signal from foreground emission. This can be studied in a power spectrum space where the foreground is confined to low delay modes whereas the…

The high dynamic range between contaminating foreground emission and the fluctuating 21cm brightness temperature field is one of the most problematic characteristics of 21cm intensity mapping data. While these components would ordinarily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Melis O. Irfan , Philip Bull

Detecting and characterizing the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn via the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen will revolutionize the study of the formation of the first stars, galaxies, black holes and intergalactic gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

Observing the Epoch of Reionisation using 21cm radio interferometry has proven to be a challenging task. Extraction of the extremely faint redshifted signal is complicated by the presence of bright foregrounds, radio frequency interference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sohini Dutta , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Michael J. Wilensky , Zheng Zhang , Ainulnabilah Nasirudin

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

We develop a new formalism for the component separation method Spectral Matching Independent Component Analysis (SMICA) in order to include the information contained in the foregrounds beyond second-order statistics. We also develop a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 M. Citran , H. V. Tran , G. Patanchon , B. van Tent

The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method and the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method are widely used for foreground subtraction in 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. We show their equivalence, and point out that the condition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Shifan Zuo , Xuelei Chen , Yi Mao

AIMS: One of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology is the separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB). This problem becomes even more difficult in situations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-05 Robertio Vio , Paola Andreani

Hybrid Foreground Residual Subtraction (HyFoReS) is a new family of algorithms designed to remove systematics-induced foreground contamination for 21-cm intensity mapping data. Previously, the algorithm was shown to be effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Haochen Wang , Panupong Phoompuang , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Arnab Chakraborty , Simon Foreman

It is well-known that foreground subtraction in 21cm surveys removes large scale power. We investigate associated systematic biases. We show that removing line-of-sight fluctuations on large scales aliases into suppression of the 3D power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nada Petrovic , S. Peng Oh

Homography estimation is often an indispensable step in many computer vision tasks. The existing approaches, however, are not robust to illumination and/or larger viewpoint changes. In this paper, we propose bidirectional implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Daniel Koguciuk , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Accurate modelling of the primary beam is an important but difficult task in radio astronomy. For high dynamic range problems such as 21cm intensity mapping, small modelling errors in the sidelobes and spectral structure of the beams can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Michael J. Wilensky , Jacob Burba , Philip Bull , Hugh Garsden , Katrine A. Glasscock , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo , David R. DeBoer , Nima Razavi-Ghods

Enlightening our understanding of the first galaxies responsible for driving reionisation requires detecting the 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen. Interpreting the wealth of information embedded in this signal requires Bayesian inference.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Bradley Greig , David Prelogović , Yuxiang Qin , Yuan-Sen Ting , Andrei Mesinger

The bispectrum is a 3-point statistic with the potential to provide additional information beyond power spectra analyses of survey datasets. Radio telescopes which broadly survey the 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) are a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Steven Cunnington , Catherine Watkinson , Alkistis Pourtsidou