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The Green Bank Telescope HII Region Discovery Survey has doubled the number of known HII regions in the Galactic zone 343deg.\leql\leq67deg. with |b|\leq1deg. We detected 603 discrete hydrogen radio recombination line (RRL) components at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 L. D. Anderson , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Robert T. Rood

Compared with the cold dark matter (CDM) model, in the warm dark matter (WDM) model formation of small scale structure is suppressed. It is often thought that this would delay the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM), as the star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bin Yue , Xuelei Chen

We propose observations of the molecular gas distribution during the era of reionization. At $z \sim $ 6 to 8, $^{12}$CO$(J=1-0)$ line intensity results in a mean brightness temperature of about 0.5 $\mu$K with rms fluctuations of 0.1…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Marta B. Silva , Mario G. Santos , Phillip Lubin

The redshifted 21cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the epoch of reionization (EoR) is extremely weak and its first detection is therefore expected to be statistical with first-generation low-frequency radio interferometers. In this letter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Qian Zheng , Xiang-ping Wu , Jun-hua Gu , Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu

During the EoR, the first stars and galaxies appear while creating ionized bubbles that will eventually percolate near z=6. These ionized bubbles and percolation process are nowadays under a lot of scrutiny since observations of the HI gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Emilie Thélie , Dominique Aubert , Nicolas Gillet , Pierre Ocvirk

Detection of the global redshifted 21-cm signal is an excellent means of deciphering the physical processes during the Dark Ages and subsequent Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, detection of this faint monopole is challenging due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , A. Raghunathan

Models and simulations of the epoch of reionization predict that spectra of the 21-cm transition of atomic hydrogen will show a clear fluctuation peak, at a redshift and scale, respectively, that mark the central stage of reionization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Eli Visbal

The first major star-forming galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei will produce Balmer and higher order extended haloes during the Epoch of Reionization through the scattering of Lyman resonance line photons off the surrounding neutral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Koki Kakiichi , Avery Meiksin , Eric Tittley

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Michele Bianco , Sambit. K. Giri , David Prelogović , Tianyue Chen , Florent G. Mertens , Emma Tolley , Andrei Mesinger , Jean-Paul Kneib

The dark age of the universe, when no luminous object had existed, ended with the birth of the first stars, galaxies, and blackholes. This epoch is called cosmic dawn. Cosmic reionization is the major transition of the intergalactic medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Hayato Shimabukuro , Kenji Hasegawa , Akira Kuchinomachi , Hidenobu Yajima , Shintaro Yoshiura

Observations of fluctuations in the redshifted 21 cm radiation from neautral hydrogen (HI) are perceived to be an important future probe of the universe at high redshifts. Under the assumption that at redshifts z less than 6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sk. Saiyad Ali , Somnath Bharadwaj , Sanjay K. Pandey

We present a study of the transition of Neutral Hydrogen (HI) gas from the end of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) to late-time large-scale structure. We examine the signature of the transition as traced through the redshifted 21-cm line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jamie Incley , Laura Wolz

While most of the inter-galactic medium (IGM) today is permeated by ionized hydrogen, it was largely filled with neutral hydrogen for the first 700 million years after the Big Bang. The process that ionized the IGM (cosmic reionization) is…

The size distribution of ionized regions during the epoch of reionization -- a key ingredient in understanding the HI power spectrum observable by 21cm experiments -- can be modelled analytically using the excursion set formalism of random…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Aseem Paranjape , T. Roy Choudhury

The cross-correlation between the 21 cm field and the galaxy distribution is a potential probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The 21 cm signal traces neutral gas in the intergalactic medium and, on large spatial scales, this should be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Paul La Plante , Jordan Mirocha , Adélie Gorce , Adam Lidz , Aaron Parsons

The epoch of reionization (EoR), marking the Universe's transition from a neutral to ionized state, represents a pivotal phase for understanding the formation of the first stars and galaxies. Intensity mapping of atomic and molecular lines,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 Anirban Roy , Anthony Pullen , Patrick C. Breysse , Rachel S. Somerville

In this paper we use a number of observations to construct an integrated picture of the ionisation in the interiors of quiescent warm opaque interstellar clouds and in the intercloud medium (ICM) outside dense HII regions and hot dilute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. W. Sciama

The properties of the first galaxies, expected to drive the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), are encoded in the 3D structure of the cosmic 21-cm signal. Parameter inference from upcoming 21-cm observations promises to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-24 Jaehong Park , Andrei Mesinger , Bradley Greig , Nicolas Gillet

JWST spectra revealing Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) absorption in $z\sim 5-14$ galaxies offer a unique probe of reionization's earliest stages. However, disentangling absorption by the increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) from…