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Detecting the 21-cm hyperfine transition from neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium is our best probe for understanding the astrophysical processes driving the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). The primary means for a detection of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Bradley Greig , Yuan-Sen Ting , Alexander A. Kaurov

The light-cone (LC) effect causes the mean as well as the statistical properties of the redshifted 21-cm signal $T_{\rm b}(\hat{\bf n},\nu)$ to change with frequency $\nu$ (or cosmic time). Consequently, the statistical homogeneity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Rajesh Mondal , Abinash Kumar Shaw , Ilian T. Iliev , Somnath Bharadwaj , Kanan K. Datta , Suman Majumdar , Anjan K. Sarkar , Keri L. Dixon

State-of-the-art simulations of reionisation-era 21-cm signal have limited volumes, generally orders of magnitude smaller than observations. Consequently, the Fourier modes in common between simulation and observation have limited overlap,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Daniela Breitman , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Anshuman Acharya

We use cosmological simulations of reionization to predict the effect of large HII regions around individual high-redshift quasars on the possible signal from the redshifted 21cm line of neutral hydrogen in the pre-reionization era. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katharina Kohler , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Peter A. Shaver

We present simulations of the 21-cm signal during the epoch of reionization. We focus on properly modeling the absorption regime in the presence of inhomogeneous Wouthuysen-Field effect and X-ray heating. We ran radiative transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Baek , B. Semelin , P. Di Matteo , Y. Revaz , F. Combes

Small-scale density fluctuations can significantly affect reionization but are typically modelled quite crudely. Unresolved fluctuations in numerical simulations and analytical calculations are included using a gas clumping factor,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-06 Michele Bianco , Ilian T. Iliev , Kyungjin Ahn , Sambit K. Giri , Yi Mao , Hyunbae Park , Paul R. Shapiro

I update the SKA key science program (KSP) on first light and cosmic reionization. The KSP has two themes: (i) Using the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen as the most direct probe into the evolution of the neutral intergalactic medium during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-14 C. L. Carilli

The amplitude of redshifted 21 cm fluctuations during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is expected to show a distinctive "rise and fall" behavior with decreasing redshift as reionization proceeds. On large scales (k <~ 0.1 Mpc^{-1}) this can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Angus Beane , Adam Lidz

Future observations of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen survey will become a promising approach to probe the large scale structure of Universe. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 21 cm observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jing-Fei Zhang , Li-Yang Gao , Dong-Ze He , Xin Zhang

Observation of redshifted 21-cm signals from neutral hydrogen holds the key to understanding the structure formation and its evolution during the reionization and post-reionization era. Apart from the presence of orders of magnitude larger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Jais Kumar , Prasun Dutta , Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

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…

We present detailed predictions for the redshifted 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. These predictions are obtained from radiative transfer calculations on the results of large scale (100/h Mpc), high dynamic range, cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Ue-Li Pen , Paul R. Shapiro

Using a suite of detailed numerical simulations we estimate the level of anisotropy generated by the time evolution along the light cone of the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization. Our simulations include the physics necessary to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Karolina Zawada , Benoit Semelin , Patrick Vonlanthen , Sunghye Baek , Yves Revaz

The dispersion measure (DM) of high-redshift $(z \gtrsim 6)$ transient objects such as Fast Radio Bursts can be a powerful tool to probe the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization. In this paper, we study the variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi

We present the first large-scale radiative transfer simulations of cosmic reionization, in a simulation volume of (100/h Mpc)^3, while at the same time capturing the dwarf galaxies which are primarily responsible for reionization. We…

Hemispherical power asymmetry has emerged as a new challenge to cosmology in early universe. While the cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements indicated the asymmetry amplitude $A \simeq 0.07$ at the CMB scale $k_{\rm CMB}\simeq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Botao Li , Zhaoting Chen , Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Mao

Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) are epochs of the Universe which host invaluable information about the cosmology and astrophysics of X-ray heating and hydrogen reionization. Radio interferometric observations of the 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Anchal Saxena , Alex Cole , Simon Gazagnes , P. Daniel Meerburg , Christoph Weniger , Samuel J. Witte

The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn (CD) are pivotal stages during the first billion years of the universe, exerting a significant influence on the development of cosmic structure. The detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Anshuman Tripathi , Abhirup Datta , Aishrila Mazumder , Suman Majumdar

The observed dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a good indicator of the amount of ionized material along the propagation paths. In this work, we present a forecast of He II reionization detection using the DM and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Jun-Jie Wei , Chong-Yu Gao

We study the impact of instrumental systematics on the variance, skewness, and kurtosis of redshifted 21 cm intensity fluctuation observations from the Epoch of Reionization. We simulate realistic 21 cm observations based on the Murchison…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Piyanat Kittiwisit , Judd D. Bowman , Daniel C. Jacobs , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , Adam P. Beardsley