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(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

We present a study of internal reflection and cross coupling systematics in Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). In a companion paper, we outlined the mathematical formalism for such systematics and presented…

We present a comprehensive simulation-based study of the BayesEoR code for 21 cm power spectrum recovery when analytically marginalizing over foreground parameters. To account for covariance between the 21 cm signal and contaminating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 Jacob Burba , Peter H. Sims , Jonathan C. Pober

We present techniques for bridging the gap between idealized inverse covariance weighted quadratic estimation of 21 cm power spectra and the real-world challenges presented universally by interferometric observation. By carefully evaluating…

The redshifted $21$\,cm signal of neutral hydrogen can be used as a direct probe of the intergalactic medium during Cosmic Dawn\,(CD) and Epoch of Reionization\,(EoR). However, detecting this inherently weak signal has numerous challenges.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Samit Kumar Pal , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder

The 21cm line brightness temperature brings rich information about Epoch of Reionizaton (EoR) and high-$z$ universe (Cosmic Dawn and Dark Age). While the power spectrum is a useful tool to investigate the EoR signal statistically,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shintaro Yoshiura , Hayato Shimabukuro , Keitaro Takahashi , Rieko Momose , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Hiroshi Imai

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) features a rich interplay between the first luminous sources and the low-density gas of the intergalactic medium (IGM), where photons from these sources ionize the IGM. There are currently few observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Paul La Plante , Michelle Ntampaka

Radio interferometers, such as the Low-Frequency Array and the future Square Kilometre Array, are attempting to measure the spherically averaged 21-cm power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization. Understanding of the dominant physical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Ivelin Georgiev , Garrelt Mellema , Sambit K. Giri , Rajesh Mondal

One of the principal systematic constraints on the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) experiment is the accuracy of the foreground calibration model. Recent results have shown that highly accurate models of extended foreground sources, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 C. R. Lynch , T. J. Galvin , J. L. B. Line , C. H. Jordan , C. M. Trott , J. K. Chege , B. McKinley , M. Johnston-Hollitt , S. J. Tingay

We have used semi-numerical simulations of reionization to study the behaviour of the power spectrum of the EoR 21-cm signal in redshift space. We have considered two models of reionization, one which has homogeneous recombination (HR) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Suman Majumdar , Somnath Bharadwaj , T. Roy Choudhury

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a crucial link to grasp the complete evolutionary history of the universe. Several attempts with a variety of observables have been utilized in the past to understand the thermal and ionization evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Barun Maity

Using a Bayesian framework, we quantify what current observations imply about the history of the epoch of reionisation (EoR). We use a popular, three-parameter EoR model, flexible enough to accommodate a wide range of physically-plausible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Bradley Greig , Andrei Mesinger

The EoR 21-cm signal is expected to become highly non-Gaussian as reionization progresses. This severely affects the error-covariance of the EoR 21-cm power spectrum which is important for predicting the prospects of a detection with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-14 Rajesh Mondal , Somnath Bharadwaj , Suman Majumdar

The rapid evolution of the cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution during the EoR is imprinted along the line of sight (LoS) in the redshifted 21-cm signal due to the light cone (LC) effect. The LC EoR 21-cm signal ceases to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Suman Pramanick , Somnath Bharadwaj , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Rajesh Mondal

We present an analysis of Epoch of Reionization data from Phase II of the Murchison Widefield Array using the \texttt{simpleDS} delay spectrum pipeline. Prior work analyzed the same observations using the FHD/$\varepsilon$ppsilon imaging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Matthew Kolopanis , Jonathan Pober , Daniel C. Jacobs , Samantha McGraw

Observations of the 21cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) signal are dominated by Galactic and extragalactic foregrounds. The need for foreground removal has led to the development of two main techniques, often referred to as "foreground…

Precise measurements of the 21 cm power spectrum are crucial for understanding the physical processes of hydrogen reionization. Currently, this probe is being pursued by low-frequency radio interferometer arrays. As these experiments come…

Future high redshift 21-cm experiments will suffer from a high degree of contamination, due both to astrophysical foregrounds and to non-astrophysical and instrumental effects. In order to reliably extract the cosmological signal from the…

The 21-cm signal from the epoch of reionization is non-Gaussian. Current radio telescopes are focused on detecting the 21-cm power spectrum, but in the future the Square Kilometre Array is anticipated to provide a first measurement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Sambit K. Giri , Anson D'Aloisio , Garrelt Mellema , Eiichiro Komatsu , Raghunath Ghara , Suman Majumdar

The epoch of reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal is expected to be highly non-Gaussian in nature and this non-Gaussianity is also expected to evolve with the progressing state of reionization. Therefore the signal will be correlated between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Suman Majumdar , Jonathan R. Pritchard , Rajesh Mondal , Catherine A. Watkinson , Somnath Bharadwaj , Garrelt Mellema