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Observations of redshifted 21-cm radiation from neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) are considered to constitute the most promising tool to probe that epoch. One of the major goals of the first generation of low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kanan K. Datta , Garrelt Mellema , Yi Mao , Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro , Kyungjin Ahn

Tomographic three-dimensional 21 cm images from the epoch of reionization contain a wealth of information about the reionization of the intergalactic medium by astrophysical sources. Conventional power spectrum analysis cannot exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-22 Xiaosheng Zhao , Yi Mao , Cheng Cheng , Benjamin D. Wandelt

It has recently been suggested that the power spectrum of redshifted 21cm fluctuations could be used to measure the scale of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) during the reionisation era. The resulting measurements are potentially as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Kirsty J. Rhook , Paul M. Geil , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We present a new method for modeling inhomogeneous cosmic reionization on large scales. Utilizing high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with 2048^3 dark matter particles, 2048^3 gas cells, and 17 billion adaptive rays in a L =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

We present here 21 cm predictions from high dynamic range simulations for a range of reionization histories that have been tested against available Lyman-alpha and CMB data. We assess the observability of the predicted spatial 21 cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-13 Girish Kulkarni , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt

A number of radio interferometers are currently being planned or constructed to observe 21 cm emission from reionization. Not only will such measurements provide a detailed view of that epoch, but, since the 21 cm emission also traces the…

The redshifted 21-cm line from neutral hydrogen ($\textrm{H}\textsc{i}$) enables volumetric intensity mapping of large-scale structure in the post-reionization Universe. In anticipation of \texttt{SKA-MID}'s wide redshift coverage and high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Sourav Pal , Debanjan Sarkar

We present a method to construct semi-numerical ``simulations'', which can efficiently generate realizations of halo distributions and ionization maps at high redshifts. Our procedure combines an excursion-set approach with first-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrei Mesinger , Steven Furlanetto

We explore the mean and fluctuating redshifted 21 cm signal in numerical simulations of cosmic reionization from the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) project. We find that the mean signal varies between about $\pm20\rm{mK}$. Most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Alexander A. Kaurov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We use a set of semi-numerical simulations based on Zel'dovich approximation, friends-of-friends algorithm and excursion set formalism to generate reionization maps of high dynamic range with a range of assumptions regarding the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Roy Choudhury , M. G. Haehnelt , J. Regan

Observation of multifrequency angular power spectrum of the redshifted 21-cm brightness temperature fluctuation from the neutral hydrogen holds the key to understand the structure formation and its evolution during the reionization and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Saikat Gayen , Jais Kumar , Prasun Dutta , Khandakar Md Asif Elahi , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

Observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization is a challenging endeavor in observational cosmology. Presence of orders of magnitude brighter astrophysical foregrounds and various instrumental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Aishrila Mazumder , Abhirup Datta , Arnab Chakraborty , Suman Majumdar

The information regarding how the intergalactic medium is reionized by astrophysical sources is contained in the tomographic three-dimensional 21 cm images from the epoch of reionization. In Zhao et al. (2022a) ("Paper I"), we demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Xiaosheng Zhao , Yi Mao , Shifan Zuo , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We model the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era and investigate its detectability in 21 cm intensity mapping with the future SKA radio telescope. We rely on high resolution hydrodynamical N-body simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel , Kanan K. Datta , T. Roy Choudhury

The first galaxies to appear in the universe at redshifts z>20 created ionized bubbles in the intergalactic medium of neutral hydrogen left over from the Big-Bang. It is thought that the ionized bubbles grew with time, surrounded clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

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

The 21 cm linear polarization due to Thomson scattering off free electrons can probe the distribution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the epoch of reionization, complementary to the 21 cm temperature fluctuations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Bohua Li , Jianrong Tan , Yi Mao

Measurements of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21-cm signal hold the potential to constrain models of reionization. In this paper we consider a reionization model with three astrophysical parameters namely (1) the minimum halo mass which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-18 Abinash Kumar Shaw , Somnath Bharadwaj , Rajesh Mondal

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

The 21cm neutral hydrogen line is likely to be a key probe for studying the epoch of reionization and comic dawn in the forthcoming decades. This prospect stimulates the development of the theoretical basis for simulating the power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Alexander A. Kaurov