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There is growing interest in using 3-dimensional neutral hydrogen mapping with the redshifted 21 cm line as a cosmological probe, as it has been argued to have a greater long-term potential than the cosmic microwave background. However, its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Mao , Max Tegmark , Matthew McQuinn , Matias Zaldarriaga , Oliver Zahn

The future 21 cm intensity mapping observations constitute a promising way to trace the matter distribution of the Universe and probe cosmology. Here we assess its capability for cosmological constraints using as a case study the BINGO…

The introduction of low-frequency radio arrays over the coming decade is expected to revolutionize the study of the reionization epoch. Observation of the contrast in redshifted 21cm emission between a large HII region and the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb , David Barnes

High-number-density tracers of large-scale structure, such as the HI-rich galaxies measured by 21 cm intensity mapping, have low sampling noise, making them particularly promising as cosmological probes. At large scales, this sampling noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Simon Foreman , Andrej Obuljen , Marko Simonović

We use the latest multi-redshift ($z=6.5-8.7$) upper limits on the 21-cm signal from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to explore astrophysical models which are inconsistent with the data. These upper limits are achieved using 298 h of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Bradley Greig , Cathryn M. Trott , Nichole Barry , Simon J. Mutch , Bart Pindor , Rachel L. Webster , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Observations of the high-redshift Universe using the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen and complimentary emission lines from the first galaxies promise to open a new door for our understanding of the epoch of reionization. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Sebastian Dumitru , Girish Kulkarni , Guilaine Lagache , Martin G. Haehnelt

I present our analysis of the 21cm power spectrum upper limits from the HERA radio interferometer, published in HERA Collaboration et al. 2022. We use the recent limits to constrain reionization and the properties of the IGM and galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-25 Stefan Heimersheim

In this follow-up work to the High Energy Physics Community Summer Study 2013 (HEP CSS 2013, a.k.a. Snowmass), we explore the scientific capabilities of a future Stage-IV Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiment (CMB-S4) under…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-11 W. L. K. Wu , J. Errard , C. Dvorkin , C. L. Kuo , A. T. Lee , P. McDonald , A. Slosar , O. Zahn

We study the constraints which the next generation of radio telescopes could place on the nature of dark energy, dark matter and inflation by studying the gravitational lensing of high redshift 21 cm emission, and we compare with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Benton Metcalf , S. D. M. White

We compute the tree-level bispectrum of 21cm intensity mapping after reionisation. We work in the directly observable angular and redshift space, focusing on equal-redshift correlations and thin redshift bins, for which the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Ruth Durrer , Mona Jalilvand , Rahul Kothari , Roy Maartens , Francesco Montanari

Understanding dark energy requires precision measurements of the expansion history of the universe and the growth of large-scale structure. The 21 cm intensity mapping (21 cm IM) technique enables rapid large-area surveys that can deliver…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Jun-Da Pan , Yichao Li , Guo-Hong Du , Tian-Nuo Li , Xin Zhang

Intensity mapping of multiple emission lines is emerging as a new branch to astronomy, to probe both properties of ionizing sources and the medium between, in particular the intergalactic medium. For Epoch of Reionization (EoR) studies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Caroline Heneka , Asantha Cooray

We study the constraints which the next generation of radio telescopes could place on the mass and number of neutrino species by studying the gravitational lensing of high redshift 21 cm emission in combination with wide-angle surveys of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Benton Metcalf

Low-frequency radio observations of neutral hydrogen during and before the epoch of cosmic reionization will provide hundreds of quasi-independent source planes, each of precisely known redshift, if a resolution of ~ 1 arcminutes or better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. Benton Metcalf

The Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope(FAST) is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. In this paper, we make forecast on the FAST HI large scale structure survey by mock observations. We consider a drift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-30 Wenkai Hu , Xin Wang , Fengquan Wu , Yougang Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We present constraints on the amplitude of matter fluctuations from the clustering of galaxies and their cross-correlation with the gravitational lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), focusing on low redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Andrea Rubiola , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

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

We report the deepest upper limits to date on the power spectrum of the 21-cm signal during the Cosmic Dawn (redshifts: $z>15$), using four nights of observations with NenuFAR. The limits are derived from two redshift bins, centred at…

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) is a planned interferometric radio telescope array that will ultimately consist of 1024 close packed 6 m dishes that will be deployed at the SKA South Africa site. HIRAX will…

21 cm intensity mapping (HI IM) can efficiently map large cosmic volumes with good redshift resolution, but systematics and foreground contamination pose major challenges for extracting accurate cosmological information. Cross-correlation…