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The 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen atom is almost the only way to directly probe the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages 21 cm signal, observed at frequencies below 50 MHz, can serve as a powerful probe of cosmology, as the standard cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shintaro Yoshiura , Fumiya Okamatsu , Tomo Takahashi

The paper analyzes the absorption line profile at 21 cm for the hydrogen atom in the interstellar medium. The hydrogen atom is treated as a three-level system illuminated by a powerful light source at neighboring resonances corresponding to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 D. Solovyev

The 21 cm signal appears to be a treasure trove to provide an insight into the period when the first generation of luminous objects formed in the Universe. Hydrogen is the predominating fraction of the total baryonic matter during cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-09 Pravin Kumar Natwariya

Discoverable interstellar communication signals are expected to exhibit al least one signal characteristic clearly distinct from random noise. A hypothesis is proposed that radio telescope received signals may contain transmitted delta-t…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 William J. Crilly

Aiming to fill a crucial gap in our observational knowledge of the early Universe, experiments around the world continue to attempt to verify the claimed detection of the redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn by the EDGES experiment.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 B. McKinley , C. M. Trott , M. Sokolowski , R. B. Wayth , A. Sutinjo , N. Patra , J. Nambissan T. , D. C. X. Ung

The 21 cm spectral line emission of atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) is one of the primary wavelengths observed in radio astronomy. However, the signal is intrinsically faint and the HI content of galaxies depends on the cosmic environment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. A. Barkai , M. A. W. Verheijen , E. T. Martínez , M. H. F. Wilkinson

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

The large-scale distribution of neutral hydrogen in the Universe will be luminous through its 21 cm emission. Here, for the first time, we use the auto-power spectrum of 21 cm intensity fluctuations to constrain neutral hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-01 E. R. Switzer , K. W. Masui , K. Bandura , L. -M. Calin , T. -C. Chang , X. -L. Chen , Y. -C. Li , Y. -W. Liao , A. Natarajan , U. -L. Pen , J. B. Peterson , J. R. Shaw , T. C. Voytek

Numerous experiments have been designed to investigate the Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) by examining redshifted 21-cm emissions from neutral hydrogen. Detecting the global spectrum of redshifted 21-cm signals is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Feiyu Zhao , Quan Guo , Qian Zheng , Ruxi Liang , Pengfei Zhang , Yajun Wu , Junhua Gu , Zhao Yang , Yun Yu , Yan Huang , Tianyang Liu

By combining the data from surveys for HI 21-cm absorption at various impact parameters in near-by galaxies, we report an anti-correlation between the 21-cm absorption strength (velocity integrated optical depth) and the impact parameter.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 S. J. Curran , S. N. Reeves , J. R. Allison , E. M. Sadler

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been conducted for over sixty years, yet no technosignatures have been identified. Previous studies have focused on stars in our galaxy, with few searches in the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuri Uno , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Simon C. -C. Ho , Tzu-Yin Hsu , Ross Burns

The atomic hydrogen (HI) 21cm line measures the gas content within and around galaxies, traces the dark matter potential and probes volumes and objects that other surveys do not. Over the next decade, 21cm line science will exploit new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martha P. Haynes

The formation of the first stars and galaxies during 'Cosmic Dawn' is thought to have imparted a faint signal onto the 21-cm spin temperature from atomic Hydrogen gas in the early Universe. Observationally, an absorption feature should be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Danny C. Price

If a sufficiently advanced civilization can either modulate the emission from an X-ray binary, or make use of the natural high luminosity to power an artificial transmitter, these can serve as good beacons for interstellar communication…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Robin H. D. Corbet

The low column density gas at the outskirts of galaxies as traced by the 21 cm hydrogen line emission (HI) represents the interface between galaxies and the intergalactic medium, i.e., where galaxies are believed to get their supply of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Roger Ianjamasimanana , Fabian Walter , W. J. G. de Blok , George H. Heald , Elias Brinks

The quest for radio signals from technologically-advanced extraterrestrial intelligence has traditionally concentrated on the vicinity of 1.4 GHz. In this paper, we extend the search to unprecedented territories, detailing our extensive…

The search for technosignatures from hypothetical galactic civilizations is going through a new phase of intense activity. For the first time, a significant fraction of the vast search space is expected to be sampled in the foreseeable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Claudio Grimaldi , Geoffrey W. Marcy

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna is a foreseen gravitational wave detector, which aims to detect $10^{-20}$ strains in the frequency range from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. It is a triangular constellation, with equal sides of $2,5 \times 10^9$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C P Sasso , G Mana , S Mottini

Following from the results of the first systematic modern low frequency Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), which was directed toward a Galactic Center field, we report a second survey…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 S. J. Tingay , C. D. Tremblay , S. Croft