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Following our previous work, which related generic features in the sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal to properties of the intergalactic medium, we now investigate the prospects for constraining a simple galaxy formation model with current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

Measurement of the global 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is made difficult by bright foreground emission which is 2-5 orders of magnitude larger than the expected signal. Fitting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Michael Pagano , Peter Sims , Adrian Liu , Dominic Anstey , Will Handley , Eloy De Lera Acedo

With current and upcoming experiments on the horizon, the global 21-cm signal can open up new avenues for probing dark matter (DM) physics at redshifts that are otherwise inaccessible to other observables. This work investigates the effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Aryan Rahimieh , Priyank Parashari , Rui An , Trey Driskell , Jordan Mirocha , Vera Gluscevic

When using valid foreground and signal models, the uncertainties on extracted signals in global 21-cm signal experiments depend principally on the overlap between signal and foreground models. In this paper, we investigate two strategies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Jack O. Burns

The birth of the first luminous sources and the ensuing epoch of reionization are best studied via the redshifted 21-cm emission line, the signature of the first two imprinting the last. In this work we present a fully-Bayesian method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 G. Bernardi , J. T. L. Zwart , D. Price , L. J. Greenhill , A. Mesinger , J. Dowell , T. Eftekhari , S. W. Ellingson , J. Kocz , F. Schinzel

Detecting the cosmological sky-averaged (global) 21 cm signal as a function of observed frequency will provide a powerful tool to study the ionization and thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the early Universe ($\sim$ 400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Bang D. Nhan , David D. Bordenave , Richard F. Bradley , Jack O. Burns , Keith Tauscher , David Rapetti , Patricia J. Klima

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

Observing the neutral hydrogen distribution across the Universe via redshifted 21cm line intensity mapping constitutes a powerful probe for cosmology. However, the redshifted 21cm signal is obscured by the foreground emission from our…

Direct detection of the Epoch of Reionization via the redshifted 21-cm line will have unprecedented implications on the study of structure formation in the early Universe. To fulfill this promise current and future 21-cm experiments will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 F. Mertens , A. Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans

The 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen is a sensitive probe of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) and Cosmic Dawn. Currently operating radio telescopes have ushered in a data-driven era of 21-cm cosmology, providing the first constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Aviad Cohen , Anastasia Fialkov , Rennan Barkana , Raul Monsalve

We consider the evolution of the sky-averaged 21 cm background during the early phases of structure formation. Using simple analytic models, we calculate the thermal and ionization histories, assuming that stellar photons dominate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto

Large Scale Structures (LSS) in the universe can be traced using the neutral atomic hydrogen HI through its 21cm emission. Such a 3D matter distribution map can be used to test the Cosmological model and to constrain the Dark Energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Ansari , J. E. Campagne , P. Colom , J. M. Le Goff , C. Magneville , J. M. Martin , M. Moniez , J. Rich , C. Yèche

Understanding the astrophysical nature of the first stars remains an unsolved problem in cosmology. The redshifted global 21-cm signal $({T}_{21})$ acts as a treasure trove to probe the cosmic dawn era -- when the intergalactic medium was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Vivekanand Mohapatra , Johnny J , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jishnu Goswami , Alekha C. Nayak

21cm intensity mapping experiments aim to observe the diffuse neutral hydrogen (HI) distribution on large scales which traces the Cosmic structure. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have the capacity to measure the 21cm signal over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Laura Wolz , Filipe B. Abdalla , David Alonso , Chris Blake , Philip Bull , Tzu-Ching Chang , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cheng-Yu Kuo , Marios G. Santos , Richard Shaw

The classical radiometer equation is commonly used to calculate the detectability of the 21cm emission by diffuse cosmic hydrogen at high redshifts. However, the classical description is only valid in the regime where the occupation number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Abraham Loeb

Accurate simulations of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization require the generation of maps at specific frequencies given the values of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. The peculiar velocities of the hydrogen atoms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Emma Chapman , Mario G. Santos

Observing the Epoch of Reionisation using 21cm radio interferometry has proven to be a challenging task. Extraction of the extremely faint redshifted signal is complicated by the presence of bright foregrounds, radio frequency interference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Sohini Dutta , Philip Bull , Jacob Burba , Michael J. Wilensky , Zheng Zhang , Ainulnabilah Nasirudin

We report constraints on the global $21$ cm signal due to neutral hydrogen at redshifts $14.8 \geq z \geq 6.5$. We derive our constraints from low foreground observations of the average sky brightness spectrum conducted with the EDGES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Raul A. Monsalve , Alan E. E. Rogers , Judd D. Bowman , Thomas J. Mozdzen

Observations of the HI 21cm transition line promises to be an important probe into the cosmic dark ages and epoch of reionization. One of the challenges for the detection of this signal is the accuracy of the foreground source removal. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Datta , S. Bhatnagar , C. L. Carilli

Detecting redshifted 21cm emission from neutral hydrogen in the early Universe promises to give direct constraints on the epoch of reionization (EoR). It will, though, be very challenging to extract the cosmological signal (CS) from…