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Mapping of the neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity fluctuations across redshifts promises a novel and powerful probe of cosmology. The neutral hydrogen gas mass density, $\Omega_{\rm HI}$ and bias parameter, $b_{\rm HI}$ are key…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hamsa Padmanabhan , T. Roy Choudhury , Alexandre Refregier

In this white paper, we lay out a US roadmap for high-redshift 21 cm cosmology (30 < z < 6) in the 2020s. Beginning with the currently-funded HERA and MWA Phase II projects and advancing through the decade with a coordinated program of…

We use the results of previous work building a halo model formalism for the distribution of neutral hydrogen, along with experimental parameters of future radio facilities, to place forecasts on astrophysical and cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

The emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) clouds in the post-reionization era (z < 6), too faint to be individually detected, is present as a diffuse background in all low frequency radio observations below 1420 MHz. The angular and frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-29 Somnath Bharadwaj , Shiv K. Sethi , Tarun Deep Saini

In the absence of complex astrophysical processes that characterize the reionization era, the 21-cm emission from neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization epoch is believed to be an excellent tracer of the underlying dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Sourav Mitra , Suman Majumdar , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We forecast ability of dedicated 21 cm intensity mapping experiments to constraint primordial non-Gaussianity using power spectrum and bispectrum. We model the signal including the non-linear biasing expansion using a generalized halo model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Dionysios Karagiannis , Anže Slosar , Michele Liguori

Next-generation spectroscopic surveys such as the MegaMapper, MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST), MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), and Wide Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) are foreseen to increase the number of galaxy/quasar redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 William d'Assignies D. , Cheng Zhao , Jiaxi Yu , Jean-Paul Kneib

We use a combination of high-redshift observables to extract the strongest constraints to date on the fraction of axion fuzzy dark matter (FDM) in the mass window $10^{-26}\,\mathrm{eV}\!\lesssim\!…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Hovav Lazare , Jordan Flitter , Ely D. Kovetz

We discuss the prospects of using the redshifted 21~cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the post-reionization epoch to study our universe. The main aim of the article is to highlight the efforts of Indian scientists in this area with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

The neutral intergalactic medium in the post reionization epoch allows us to study cosmological structure formation through the observation of the redshifted 21 cm signal and the Lyman-alpha forest. We investigate the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-31 Ashis Kumar Pal , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

Measurements of the 21cm line emission by residual cosmic hydrogen after reionization can be used to trace the power spectrum of density perturbations through a significant fraction of the observable volume of the Universe. We show that a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Abraham Loeb , Stuart Wyithe

The mean and the scatter of the HI content of a dark-matter halo as a function of the halo mass are useful statistics that can be used to test models of structure and galaxy formation. We investigate the possibility of constraining this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Benedetta Spina , Cristiano Porciani , Carlo Schimd

Measurements of the post-reionization 21-cm bispectrum $B_{{\rm HI}}(\mathbf{k_1},\mathbf{k_2},\mathbf{k_3})$ using various upcoming intensity mapping experiments hold the potential for determining the cosmological parameters at a high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Debanjan Sarkar , Suman Majumdar , Somnath Bharadwaj

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

The cosmological information encapsulated within a weak lensing signal can be accessed via the power spectrum of the so called convergence. We use the Fisher information matrix formalism with the convergence power spectrum as the observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-27 Adrian Vollmer

The post-reionization $(z \le 6)$ neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity mapping signal holds the potential to probe the large scale structures, study the expansion history and constrain various cosmological parameters. Here we apply the…

The 21 cm signal arising from fluctuations in the neutral hydrogen field, and its cross-correlation with other tracers of cosmic density, are promising probes of the high-redshift Universe. In this study, we assess the potential of the 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Barun Maity

Using the latest upper limits on the 21-cm power spectrum at $z\approx9.1$ from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), we explore regions of parameter space which are inconsistent with the data. We use 21CMMC, a Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampler…

We propose the HI 21-cm power spectrum from the post-reionization epoch as a probe of a cosmological model with decaying dark matter particles. The unstable particles are assumed to undergo a 2-body decay into a massless and massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Mohit Yadav , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

Hydrogen 21-cm Line Intensity Mapping offers the unique opportunity to access the Dark Ages and trace the formation and evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe prior to star and galaxy formation. In this work we investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Elena Vanetti , Eleonora Vanzan , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli