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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

The 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen serves as a critical tool for unraveling the astrophysical processes that shaped cosmic dawn and the epoch of reionization. We explore the usually overlooked impact of re-scattering of 21-cm photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Sudipta Sikder , Rennan Barkana , Anastasia Fialkov

Heating of neutral gas by energetic sources is crucial for the prediction of the 21 cm signal during the epoch of reionization (EoR). To investigate differences induced on statistics of the 21 cm signal by various source types, we use five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qing-Bo Ma , Benedetta Ciardi , Marius B. Eide , Philipp Busch , Yi Mao , Qi-Jun Zhi

We present a detailed comparison of three different simulations of the epoch of reionization (EoR). The radiative transfer simulation (${\rm C}^2$-RAY) among them is our benchmark. Radiative transfer codes can produce realistic results, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Suman Majumdar , Garrelt Mellema , Kanan K. Datta , Hannes Jensen , T. Roy Choudhury , Somnath Bharadwaj , Martina M. Friedrich

Conventional wisdom was that thermal relics from the epoch of reionization (EOR) would vanish swiftly. Recently, however, it was shown that these relics can survive to lower redshifts ($z \sim 2$) than previously thought, due to gas at mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Paulo Montero-Camacho , Yi Mao

We quantify the prospects for using emission lines from rotational transitions of the CO molecule to perform an `intensity mapping' observation at high redshift during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). The aim of CO intensity mapping is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adam Lidz , Steven R. Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh , James Aguirre , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Jonathan R. Pritchard

Cosmic 21cm interferometry is set to revolutionize our understanding of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and the Cosmic Dawn (CD). However, the signal has structure on a huge range of scales, requiring large simulation boxes to statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Harman Deep Kaur , Nicolas Gillet , Andrei Mesinger

We study the behavior of internal signal chain reflections and antenna cross coupling as systematics for 21 cm cosmological surveys. We outline the mathematics for how these systematics appear in interferometric visibilities and describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Nicholas S. Kern , Aaron R. Parsons , Joshua S. Dillon , Adam E. Lanman , Nicolas Fagnoni , Eloy de Lera Acedo

A first statistical detection of the 21-cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is on the horizon, as cosmological volumes of the Universe become accessible via the adoption of low-frequency interferometers. We explore the impact which non-identical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Chokshi , N. Barry , J. L. B. Line , C. H. Jordan , B. Pindor , R. L. Webster

We use numerical simulations of cosmic reionization and radiative processes related to the HI 21 cm emission line to produce synthetic radio maps as seen by next generation radio telescopes that will operate at low radio frequencies (e.g.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Valdes , B. Ciardi , A. Ferrara , M. Johnston-Hollitt , H. Rottgering

The cosmic 21-cm signal promises to revolutionize studies of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Radio interferometers are aiming for a preliminary, low signal-to-noise (S/N) detection of the 21-cm power spectrum. Cross-correlating 21-cm with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , James E. Davies , Andrei Mesinger

The measurement of the brightness temperature fluctuations of neutral hydrogen 21 cm lines from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) is expected to be a powerful tool for revealing the reionisation process. We study the 21 cm cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-07 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Nabila Aghanim , Mathieu Langer , Marian Douspis , Saleem Zaroubi , Vibor Jelic

The 21\,cm line and the patchy kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect are promising and complementary probes of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). A challenge for cross-correlating these two signals is that foreground avoidance or removal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Meng Zhou , Paul La Plante , Adam Lidz , Yi Mao , Yin-Zhe Ma

Detecting cosmological signals from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) requires high-precision calibration to isolate the cosmological signals from foreground emission. In radio interferometery, perturbed primary beams of antenna elements can…

We present new constraints on the 21cm Epoch of Reionization (EoR) power spectrum derived from 3 months of observing with a 32-antenna, dual-polarization deployment of the Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of…

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

We present a new upper limit to the 21cm power spectrum during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) which constrains reionization models with an unheated IGM. The GMRT-EoR experiment is an ongoing effort to make a statistical detection of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gregory Paciga , Tzu-Ching Chang , Yashwant Gupta , Rajaram Nityanada , Julia Odegova , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey Peterson , Jayanta Roy , Kris Sigurdson

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen - emitted during the Epoch of Reionization - promises to be an important source of information for the study of the infant universe. However, its detection is impossible without sufficient mitigation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 A. Mouri Sardarabadi , L. V. E. Koopmans

The overwhelming foreground contamination is one of the primary impediments to probing the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through measuring the redshifted 21 cm signal. Among various foreground components, radio halos are less studied and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Weitian Li , Haiguang Xu , Zhixian Ma , Dan Hu , Zhenghao Zhu , Chenxi Shan , Jingying Wang , Junhua Gu , Dongchao Zheng , Xiaoli Lian , Qian Zheng , Yu Wang , Jie Zhu , Xiang-Ping Wu

Tomography of redshifted 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen using Fourier synthesis telescopes is a promising tool to study the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Limiting the confusion from Galactic and Extragalactic foregrounds is critical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Harish Vedantham , N. Udaya Shankar , Ravi Subrahmanyan