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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

Cosmic reionization is known to be a major phase transition of the gas in the Universe. Since astronomical objects formed in the early Universe, such as the first stars, galaxies and black holes, are expected to have caused cosmic…

The epoch of reionization (EoR) sets a fundamental benchmark in cosmic structure formation, corresponding to the formation of the first luminous objects that act to ionize the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM). Recent observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Carilli , S. Furlanetto , F. Briggs , M. Jarvis , S. Rawlings , H. Falcke

Mapping out the first billion years using the 21-cm line with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will revolutionize our understanding of the cosmic dawn, reionization and the galaxies that drove these milestones. However, synergies with other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Andrei Mesinger , Benedetta Ciardi , James E. Davies , Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , Valentina D'Odorico

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a low frequency component (SKA-low) which has as one of its main science goals the study of the redshifted 21cm line from the earliest phases of star and galaxy formation in the Universe. This 21cm…

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn (EoR/CD) experiments aim to explore the growth of structure and production of ionising radiation in the first billion years of the Universe. Here I describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Cathryn M. Trott

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will offer an unprecedented view onto the early Universe, using interferometric observations of the redshifted 21cm line. The 21cm line probes the thermal and ionization state of the cosmic gas, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrei Mesinger , Andrea Ferrara , Bradley Greig , Ilian Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jonathan Pritchard , Mario G. Santos

Detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization is one of the final frontiers of modern observational cosmology. The inherently faint signal makes it susceptible to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Arnab Chakraborty , Saurabh Singh , Anshuman Tripathi , Madhurima Choudhury

In the most distant reaches of the Universe, the 21-cm hyperfine transition in neutral hydrogen provides one of the only available tracers of large-scale structure. A number of instruments have been working and planned to measure the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Teppei Minoda , Shohei Saga , Tomo Takahashi , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Daisuke Yamauchi , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Shintaro Yoshiura

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is the epoch in which hydrogen in the Universe reionize after the "Dark Ages". This is the second of two major phase transitions that hydrogen in the Universe underwent, the first phase being the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-16 Saleem Zaroubi

The 21cm line from the spin-flip transition of neutral hydrogen (HI) provides a unique window into the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), the final phase transition of our Universe. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) enables precise measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yannic Pietschke , Caroline Heneka , Tom Schlenker , Ayodele Ore , Benedikt Schosser

The line of sight direction in the redshifted 21-cm signal coming from the cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization is quite unique in many ways compared to any other cosmological signal. Different unique effects, such as the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-28 Suman Majumdar , Kanan K. Datta , Raghunath Ghara , Rajesh Mondal , T. Roy Choudhury , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sk. Saiyad Ali , Abhirup Datta

During the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), the ultraviolet radiation from the first stars and galaxies ionised the neutral hydrogen of the intergalactic medium, which can emit radiation through its 21 cm hyperfine transition. This 21 cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Ivelin Georgiev , Adélie Gorce , Garrelt Mellema

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned radio interferometer of unprecedented scale that will revolutionize low-frequency radio astronomy when completed. In particular, one of its core science drivers is the systematic mapping of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-11 Nichole Barry , Gianni Bernardi , Bradley Greig , Nicholas Kern , Florent Mertens

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

The exceptional sensitivity of the SKA will allow observations of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (CD/EoR) in unprecedented detail, both spectrally and spatially. This wealth of information is buried under Galactic and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-20 Emma Chapman , Anna Bonaldi , Geraint Harker , Vibor Jelić , Filipe B. Abdalla , Gianni Bernardi , Jérôme Bobin , Fred Dulwich , Benjamin Mort , Mario Santos , Jean-Luc Starck

The high-redshift 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a promising observational probe of the early universe. Current- and next-generation radio interferometers such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , James Aguirre , Saul Kohn

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low) interferometer will have the required sensitivity to detect the 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). In preparation, we investigated the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 E. Jong , C. Trott , C. D. Nunhokee , Q. Zheng

The SKA will build upon early detections of the EoR by precursor instruments, such as MWA, PAPER, and LOFAR, and planned instruments, such as HERA, to make the first high signal-to-noise measurements of fluctuations in the 21 cm brightness…

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR), when the first luminous sources ionised the intergalactic medium, represents a new frontier in cosmology. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will offer unprecedented insights into this era through…

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