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The observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen are a promising probe for understanding the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). One of the primary obstacles to the statistical detection of the Cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Eeshan Beohar , Abhirup Datta , Anshuman Tripathi , Samit Kumar Pal , Rashmi Sagar

Distribution of cold gas in the post-reionization era provides an important link between distribution of galaxies and the process of star formation. Redshifted 21 cm radiation from the Hyperfine transition of neutral Hydrogen allows us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Bharat Kumar Gehlot , Jasjeet Singh Bagla

The cosmic 21-cm signal is a promising probe of the early Universe, owing to its sensitivity to the thermal state of the neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) and properties of the first luminous sources. Here, we constrain the 21-cm signal…

Probing statistical distribution of the neutral hydrogen (\HI) using the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine-transition spectral line holds the key to understand the formation and evolution of the matter density in the universe. The two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-24 Urvashi Arora , Prasun Dutta

The 21cm forest, narrow absorption features in the spectra of high redshift radio sources caused by intervening neutral hydrogen, offers a unique probe of the intergalactic medium and small-scale structures during reionization. While…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Hayato Shimabukuro , Yidong Xu , Yue Shao

Motivated by recent progress in studies of the high-$z$ Universe, we build a new model for the global 21-cm signal that is explicitly calibrated to measurements of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) and further tuned to match the Thomson…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-06 Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto , G. Sun

We study the prospects for extracting detailed statistical properties of the neutral Hydrogen distribution during the era of reionization using the brightness temperature fluctuations from redshifted 21 cm line emission. Detection of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. G. Santos , A. Cooray , L. Knox

In the standard cosmology, it is believed that there are two relatively weak and distinct band-limited absorption features, with the first absorption minima near 20 MHz ($z\sim70$) and the other minima at higher frequencies between 50-110…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 Mansi Dhuria , Viraj Karambelkar , Vikram Rentala , Priyanka Sarmah

The sky-averaged redshifted 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn is expected to provide a unique view of the first compact objects. However, its measurement remains daunting. Difficulties are driven by the large dynamic contrast between the…

Observations of the EoR with the 21-cm hyperfine emission of neutral hydrogen (HI) promise to open an entirely new window onto the formation of the first stars, galaxies and accreting black holes. In order to characterize the weak 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Abhik Ghosh , L. V. E. Koopmans , Emma Chapman , Vibor Jelic

The redshifted 21cm signal from the post-reionization epoch is highly non-Gaussian; thus, higher-order statistics, such as the bispectrum, are required to extract this non-Gaussian information. However, high-signal-to-noise ratio detection…

We argue that the global signal of neutral hydrogen 21cm line can be a powerful probe of primordial power spectrum on small scales. Since the amplitude of small scale primordial fluctuations is important to determine the early structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi , Tomo Takahashi

The global 21 cm signal from the hyperfine transition of cosmic atomic hydrogen is theorised to track the state of the early Universe via the analysis of its absorption and emission with respect to the radio background. Detecting this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Joe H. N. Pattison , Dominic J. Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo

We report the first direct detection of the cosmological power spectrum using the intensity signal from 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen (HI), derived from interferometric observations with the L-band receivers of the new MeerKAT radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Sourabh Paul , Mario G. Santos , Zhaoting Chen , Laura Wolz

The key challenge in the observation of the redshifted 21-cm signal from cosmic reionization is its separation from the much brighter foreground emission. Such separation relies on the different spectral properties of the two components,…

A detection of the 21-cm signal power spectrum from the Epoch of Reionization is imminent, thanks to consistent advancements from telescopes such as LOFAR, MWA, and HERA, along with the development of SKA. In light of this progress, it is…

We investigate the 21-cm signature that may arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of full reionization (z>5). In scenarios in which the IGM is reionized by discrete sources of photoionizing radiation, the neutral gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , Avery Meiksin , Martin J. Rees

Detection of the global redshifted 21-cm signal is an excellent means of deciphering the physical processes during the Dark Ages and subsequent Epoch of Reionization (EoR). However, detection of this faint monopole is challenging due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Saurabh Singh , Ravi Subrahmanyan , N. Udaya Shankar , A. Raghunathan

New observations over the next few years of the emission of distant objects will help unfold the chapter in cosmic history around the era of the first galaxies. These observations will use the neutral hydrogen emission or absorption at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Smadar Naoz , Rennan Barkana

We present a homogeneous compilation of HI spectral parameters extracted from global 21 cm line spectra for some 9000 galaxies in the local universe (heliocentric velocity -200 < V_Sun < 28,000 km/s) obtained with a variety of large single…